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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

Edsurge

The chime she rang to remind students to take a calm breath before focusing their attention signaled that this breathing practice had become embedded into classroom culture. toward the end of Writer’s Workshop. Traveling between classrooms and across grade levels gives me insight into how teachers are changing their practices.

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Would You Rather: Designing with Choice in Mind

Catlin Tucker

In a workshop last week, I was guiding a group through the process of designing a choice board. Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018). When I work with teachers, I encourage them to treat their classrooms (physical or virtual) like a laboratory.

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Every Instructional Coach Deserves an Effective Coach

Digital Promise

When I made the decision to leave the classroom to become a learning strategist at my school, there was no training, workshops, or support for my role. Meeting with a coach/mentor every week helped me to enter my new role by walking with a clear direction and preserving my mental health.”.

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4 EdTech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom

The Web20Classroom

Carol Ann Tomlinson said it best: “At its most basic level, differentiation consists of the efforts of teachers to respond to variance among learners in the classroom. Differentiation isn’t just something that some students need or some teachers have to do, differentiation is responsive teaching and a part of every classroom.

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IT Coaches Leading Change in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Deb Ramm helps us learn the techniques to help powerful improvement happen in classrooms. IT Coaches Leading Change in the Classroom. Date: June 7, 2018. Now, Deb, you work with implementing lighthouse classrooms, but you’ve also recently moved into instructional technology. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Vernier Software & Technology to Host 38 Free Professional Development Workshops this Fall

techlearning

BEAVERTON, Oregon, August 13, 2018 — This fall, Vernier Software & Technology will host 38 free, hands-on workshops around the country to help science educators learn how to best incorporate probeware and data-collection technology into their curriculum. Educators can register for a workshop at www.vernier.com/workshops.

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Project Based Learning and the Flipped Classroom… A Great Combination!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I big shout out to all of you I had a chance to meet at FETC 2018 in Orlando. Also, a big thank you to the over 400 that attended my workshops and sessions. While I was at FETC I ran into Jon Bergmann who is best known for his work on the Flipped Classroom. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.