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Students Are Opportunities Not Obligations with Hamish Brewer

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: Check out the free webinar for math teachers – how to transform your textbook into a curiosity machine – go to coolcatteacher.com/freemathwebinar to learn more about this free webinar being held four times in January 2020. He has also been recognized as the 2016 VAESP School Bell Award and ASCD Virginia Impact Award.

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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. The students will build out a maze and teach the Ozobot how to navigate it. I think we are witnessing how this is evolving over time.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Customer Focused.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. a nonprofit organization authorized by the U.S.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.”

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How to Orchestrate a Digital Transformation

EdTech Magazine

How to Orchestrate a Digital Transformation. Today, we have a gigabit wireless network deployed at our elementary, middle and high schools , and starting this fall, we expect to have deployed more than 3,000 Chromebooks to our students, teachers and administrators. meghan.bogardu…. Wed, 03/21/2018 - 09:32.

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