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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

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million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. TpT 2017 Conference Observations. million teachers buying or selling over 2.7

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10 Most Popular Tech Tips and Click-throughs in 2017

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Here’s a run-down on what you thought were the most valuable in 2017: Top 10 Tech Tips. Here are the Top Ten tech tips from 2017. What are Common Core keyboarding standards? Between these ten, they had over 174,000 visitors during the year. Chromebooks in the Classrooms–Friend or Foe? How to Create a Curriculum Map.

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Hour of Code is Coming!

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December 4-10, 2017, Computer Science Education will host the Hour Of Code–a one-hour introduction to students on coding, programming, and why they should love it, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, and an innovator. No experience needed.

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7 Ways to Build Trust with Your School Community #LT8keys

Tom Murray

Within their own walls, schools often work diligently to communicate the latest initiatives, results, and grading practices, or they discuss things such as the Common Core State Standards. They are present and display competence. Foundational to school leadership is the understanding that we must be present to lead change.

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Making a Pitch for Social Entrepreneurship

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Common Core State Standards – English Language Arts. Your presentation should include a visual component in the form of a slide deck that showcases at least two of the following: A company logo, Sketch of the product(s) that will be sold, Marketing flyer. 2017 KidTrepreneur of the Year – [link].

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Zap Zap Kindergarten Math–Clever, Engaging Early Math Lessons

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Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach K-8 math skills that are tied to many national standards (like Common Core). It covers foundation skills like addition, subtraction, place value, and measurement and data, and is aligned with international math standards such as the US’s Common Core. How to use the game.

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PleIQ: the interactive smart toy that fosters multiple intelligences through Augmented Reality

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All learning activities are Common Core and Universal Design for Learning (UDL); any teacher in the US or abroad can experience the next ed-tech frontier of augmented reality in their classrooms. PleIQ launched in Chile in 2017 and has been used by more than 5,000 schools across 3 countries in Latin America.

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