The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. Here’s my interview with Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen about the best iPad apps for the elementary classroom. Selected Links from this Episode.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful. It was phenomenal to see!”

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 27, 2017

— Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 26, 2017. Computer Programming in the Elementary School (B313). STEAMing Ahead with Student Engagement and Critical Thinking (B315). Using Microsoft OneNote to Support ELL Students (B316). Cori Coburn. Tuesday BYOD Sessions. 10:15–11:15 am. 12:15–1:15 pm. 1:15–2:15 pm.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

Using tech in class can prepare students to successfully enter the workforce after graduation.[4] 4] Even though the technology is likely to change from their early school years to the time they start their first career, teaching digital literacy in elementary school is a great way to get students started. Longer attention span.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Makerspaces and maker culture have quickly become a favorite of STEAM advocates, and new research shows that makerspaces can be highly effective at helping elementary students develop skills such as critical thinking, design thinking, and problem solving. Struggling students in particular seemed to to benefit from maker activities.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

eSpark’s Theory of Learning is grounded in seven research-based elements – teaching practices or design elements – that are directly linked to student learning outcomes. 3: Student Engagement Increases Motivation. Even simple feedback, such as right or wrong, has been correlated with student learning outcomes (Faber et al.,

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Talladega County Schools is partnering with the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) to deepen teachers’ content knowledge in STEM education and promote strong pedagogical and technological skills for student instruction. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Monica loves getting students connected on a global scale and loves to use digital tools like Lumio to create interactive lessons to engage her students. Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Boost your student engagement on any devices wherever learning needs to happen.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 25, 2018

Jere Whitson Elementary is one of twenty schools at Putnam County School District in Tennessee, but it's the only school serving a largely low-income, highly transient population with many English language learners. Thomas Fuhrman, Principal, Jere Whitson Elementary. points from spring of 2016 to 2017.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, a study by Louis and Marks reveals that schools with strong professional communities not only enhance student achievement and classroom organization but also lead to greater student engagement and reduced learning disparities. Influence of teacher collaboration on job satisfaction and student achievement.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2017

In 2017, we look forward to continued “Growth Through Innovation” in Manor ISD. — Student engagement is critical in learning. Through student engagement, deeper learning takes place and students take ownership of their efforts while becoming empowered as critical thinkers.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

These educators show us not only how differentiating goals for many levels of students is possible, but also how they’ve increased student engagement without the use of expected extrinsic rewards. Custom goals can be specific to the class or specific to the individual student. September 14, 2017. September 7, 2017.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

As these four principals look back at 2016, they recall the most important ed tech lesson they learned this year—and look forward to inspiring their staff and students anew in 2017. Through DreamBox, more than 33,000 math lessons have been completed with a 29% growth among active students. Student engagement is high.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Biochemistry can be elementary. Students generally learn about moles, atoms, compounds and the intricacies of the periodic table in college, but Daniel Fried is convinced kids can learn complex biochemistry topics as early as elementary school. Photo: Gabriela Fuentes. Now it is expanding.

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techlearning

MARCH 19, 2018

During the 2016-2017 school year, five public school districts in Rhode Island used STEMscopes NGSS in their elementary schools. The 2017 NECAP results show that the districts that used STEMscopes outperformed the rest of the state on their fourth grade proficiency rates in science.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Two organizations have been acquired (EMC School bought Zulama in February 2018, ExploreLearning purchased Cogent Education in November 2017). uses gameplay to boost student engagement and capture more actionable data on learning gaps and learning styles. At least one—Earshot—has folded. Boddle Learning (Kansas City, Mo.)

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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 CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish. Let's take that engagement example. Her newest books are THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK 2.0 Well, then, what's next for that particular reader?

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

During the second takeover in June 2017, the South Carolina superintendent declared a “state of emergency” in education. Morale was low, teacher turnover was high and residents didn’t trust that Allendale could educate their students. Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

schools for just a few years, a 2017 study of Kinems by Pace University’s School of Education found that the data “heavily supports the effective use of kinesthetic movement for the purpose of increasing student engagement and performance outcomes” for students with disabilities.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. Appropriations: FY 2017: (in process) (President Obama request: $500,000,000). Note: The Obama administration request for FY 2017 was below the authorized FY 2017 maximum amount of $1,650,000,000.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

PLI teachers are challenging their students to use their voice, to engage in real world problem solving, and to use technology to collaborate and make their own choices about learning. Just one example of this is a teacher at Hidalgo Elementary School, who last spring put the PLI ideas into practice.

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techlearning

AUGUST 21, 2018

The School Librarian of the Year is selected by a panel of qualified judges, including the 2017 honoree Tamiko Brown, and recognizes K–12 library professionals for outstanding achievement and the exemplary use of 21st-century tools and services to engage children and teens toward fostering multiple literacies.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

MENLO PARK, CA [August 24, 2017] — Open Up Resources, the nonprofit provider of openly licensed curriculum for K–12 schools, has released its first openly licensed core program, the Illustrative Mathematics 6–8 Math curriculum. schools, the curriculum is now available for free to school districts.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. IMMOOC April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner”

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In addition to instructional coaching, Monica supports teachers through workshops, speaking engagements, and blogging for Education Week and Education Post. Her, “4 Things Great Principals Don’t Do,” was the most read and shared Education Week post of 2017. Kelisa Wing has been an educator for 12 years.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 28, 2017

On February 25th, 33 students were honored as “Shining Stars” and invited to attend an educational symposium and celebratory luncheon at the Disneyland Hotel. We enjoyed meeting the incredible Orange County high school students who were recognized through the 2016 – 2017 Dreamers & Doers program! “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Destiny, 18, is like most students in the United States. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They still are, but as the academy enters its sixth full year, its student outcomes are drawing praise from a variety of sources, even while administrators note that steep challenges remain. But many students can feel lost trying to speak or write with academic vocabulary in the language they don’t know as well.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

World Savvy programs provide support at three critical levels to deeply integrate global competence into teaching, learning, and culture: student engagement, teacher capacity, and school and district leadership support. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Some 95% of districts working with Education Elements last year are returning for ongoing support in the 2016-2017 school year. Three years prior, the district had received $28.6M

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Educator Innovator

MAY 6, 2019

This decidedly “not school” scene is one of many such moments from Green is the New Pink, a 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge Project conceived by University of Mississippi Director of Pre-College Programs, Ellen Shelton. Knight, unable to identify a species outside of his expertise, phoned a colleague. That was neat,” Shelton says.

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MindShift

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Destiny, 18, is like most students in the United States. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc. In 2017 the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

A course on cybersecurity will be added in 2017. As instructional technologist for the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina, she was being given a tour of a middle school class where the students were designing and building robots. The “clients” were the elementary students. They were so engrossed.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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