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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

As they listen, teachers can also show students how to be judgment-free listeners. This is also helpful by modeling for students how to be good listeners to their peers. Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students.

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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

For edtech to fulfill this potential, school system leaders need to better understand how to center equity in edtech-related decisions. This is up from an average of 703 edtech tools during the 2018-2019 school year, representing a more than 200% increase in just three years.

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Improve Student Behavior Now!

The CoolCatTeacher

Today Darrian Tanner, the Florida State High Impact Teacher award winner for 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 talks about how to help teachers improve their classroom management skills. This school year will mark ten years of teaching secondary ed ELA. Darrian Tanner’s Bio as Submitted Ms.

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How to Host a Student Media Festival

The CoolCatTeacher

Mike Lawrence, a current organizer of the longest running student media festival in the country, shares how to set up and run your own media festival. With a big hat tip to our mutual friend Hall Davidson who started this event, we learn the ins and outs of student media festival and how you can “steal” their ideas and run your own!

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much? Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

9,16] If educators are unaware how to teach and support multicultural students, they will fail to reach a significant portion of their school. Yet, there is hope: over 96% of elementary school teachers view culturally responsive teaching as important when working with diverse students.[7] Hosea Plays On by Kathleen M.

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

Edsurge

Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate. She wasn’t the only one. It started with coffee.

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