The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2019

Her most notable awards include finalist for California State Teacher of the Year, 2012 and ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, 2015. You can see her 2015 acclaimed “TOY Talk” on standards-based grading here: [link]. Blog: [link] Twitter: @NicoleNaditz.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

8] Before school gets out for the summer, connect parents with guided reading activities and summer learning programs for elementary students. Limiting the Academic Summer Slide for Urban Elementary School Students. SET Journal, 2015, 1, pp. Parent engagement can also be a crucial strategy for preventing the summer slide.[8]

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. How to Teach Thinking Routines in the Classroom. How to Teach Thinking Routines in the Classroom. Listen Now.

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Find out what family engagement is, how to nurture it, and how to create a community built on family-teacher relationships in your school. Family partnerships formed during elementary school years build a strong foundation for future student success and continued engagement.[6] How to Increase Family Engagement.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Today, we are thrilled to announce 16 stellar winners in the 2015 DILAs. And with that, meet the 2015 winners! Avondale Elementary School District, Avondale, AZ. For two years now, October has been an inspiring month for us. In October, we get to share the winners of the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards (DILAs)! Roger Cook.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2020

Today he talks about how he starts strong on Mondays inspiring and encouraging his campus to be the greatest version of themselves. Mark French – Bio As submitted Mark French is a veteran educator with 38 years experience, 23 as an elementary school principal.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This year, we reviewed how to use Buncee by having the students each create a Buncee about their own interests. Don’t be scared if you don’t know how to do everything, because your students will be able to figure it out and teach others, and if your students are like mine they will request to “play” with Buncee during their free time!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

5 practical lessons for elementary classroom inclusion. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Subscribe to the Show. Related Shows You May Like. Going hybrid or already have? Join the conversation. Equity Programs in New York State.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Girls Scouts – all girl Lego leagues, Engineering is Elementary – girls are empowered – Flying Monkeys prosthetic device patent! Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The early years are vital to a child’s long-term achievement in reading, so teaching vocabulary and content knowledge in preschool and in the elementary grades is essential. How to Boost Your Students’ Reading Comprehension. 4 Free Downloadable Chapter Books for Elementary Students. September 2015. and Nation, K.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 10, 2019

You could, for example, teach students how to recognize different emotions or what to do when they are sad or angry. Reading is connected to empathy, and reading books about bullying can help students understand how to treat their classmates and what to do if they’re being bullied.[13] How to Prevent Cyberbullying in Schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

How could we transform a traditional, dysfunctional, low-performing system measured by high-stakes assessments into a system with exceptional teaching and learning environments that developed students empowered to change the world? At Summit Elementary, traditional grade levels have been eliminated and replaced with instructional levels.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. In January 2015, Mitch co-founded the nonprofit Games4Ed with Larry Cocco. Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

2015 was another great year for learning apps. They can browse through posted projects or templates for ideas of what's possible or watch how-to videos. Simple Machines lets kids manipulate tools and see how they help us do work. Plus, excellent elementary NGSS engineering practices are embedded in fun gameplay.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. This article offers suggestions for how to teach financial literacy. In elementary and middle schools, there is often debate over which traditional subject should incorporate the standards. For youth, the outlook is not much better.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

Makenzie believes that since the world is constantly changing, she needs to know how to fix things, like cars with advanced electronic technology. This year, thanks to a donation from an MSU alumnus, they have expanded the residential camp to elementary school students. Makenzie wants to be a computer engineer and a beautician. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Brandi Todd has been an elementary teacher for sixteen years. But with so much happening in our individual classrooms, we teachers often don’t take our own good advice.

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TeacherCast

JULY 15, 2015

In 2015 the Varkey Gems Foundation named him as a top-50 finalist for the “Nobel Prize of Teaching”, the Global Teacher Prize. As an elementary science teacher this year he will be exploring new ways to inspire students to wonder, solve problems, and make the world better. Learn How To Launch Your Very Own Podcast !

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Are you going to the ISTE 2015 conference and want to find out more about Flipped Learning? The books are: Flipped Learning for Science Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015). Flipped Learning for Math Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015). Blend and Flip in the Elementary Classroom. 8:30–9:30 am.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. Now, the question was how to experiment with it—and what to do when that money ran out.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Are you going to the ISTE 2015 conference and want to find out more about Flipped Learning? The books are: Flipped Learning for Science Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015). Flipped Learning for Math Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015). Blend and Flip in the Elementary Classroom. 8:30–9:30 am.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 13, 2021

One of our most popular blog posts to date is, “How to Create a Custom Theme in Google Classroom,” and it’s no secret why, especially now with all of the virtual learning happening. Please be sure to visit our original post to learn how to create a custom theme if you’re not sure how. It’s so quick and easy, yet impactful.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2015, he was nominated as one of the ‘500 Most Influential People in Britain’ by The Sunday Times as a result of being most influential in the field of education. Ross works with pupils, teachers and school leaders across the world, supporting teaching and learning, workload and mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan. A toddler looks at a book on an October morning at Donna Araujo’s home child care program.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2017

To help make all of our students aware of the career options available to them, in 2015 I created a virtual career wheel for Kankakee teachers to follow. Each grade focuses on a different segment of careers, so as students move through elementary school they are able to explore a variety of fields and recognize where their interests lie.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. BERWYN, Ill. —

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

John Larmer, the editor at the Buck Institute, talks about common barriers to effective project-based learning and how to overcome them. In 2015 he co-authored Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning, and in 2018 contributed to and edited Project Based Teaching, both co-published by ASCD. Twitter: @ johnlBIE.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 7, 2023

Youtube is a great video website that since its introduction in 2015 has revolutionized the media world in unprecedented ways. middle school, high school, elementary, college and university). Millions of content creators are using YouTube to share their works and reach audiences from all around the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, when I started teaching American Literature at McClarin Success Academy, I knew I had an opportunity to break the stigmatization of at-risk youth. Our team collaborated to determine how mastery was achieved for each of those standards, and developed sample tasks for each level of mastery on a given standard.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I can still picture myself sitting at a small, elementary school table over a decade ago. The support page also shows how to find and use comments in the Comment Bank. In 2015, she worked as a partner with Google to help rewrite the Google Certification Training Center content. This was a common sight for me.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Yet the exact nature of that support and how to provide it are debated. In this Thursday, Oct.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nick Baskwill works with hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schools across Nova Scotia to drive technology integration and the adoption of innovative tools for tech and computer science education. Nominated by : Unruly Studios. What makes this nominee a hero?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft. How to Make an Ugly Classroom Beautiful. Barrett, P. Folkins, J. Friberg, J.

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