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Top Posts of 2018

A Principal's Reflections

Here are my top posts of 2018. The brain needs regular stimulation to properly function and this can come in the form of exercise or movement. Never discount how your ideas and experiences might positively influence the work of others. Back to the whole writing thing. It’s already on our doorstep. You can’t run or hide from it.

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CUE 2018: 5 Steps to Create More Accessible, Personalized Professional Development

EdTech Magazine

CUE 2018: 5 Steps to Create More Accessible, Personalized Professional Development. Fri, 03/16/2018 - 16:13. Meghan Cortez (@megbcortez) March 16, 2018. Douglas explained that the gamified training was designed to be a quick microlearning experience where teachers can do one 5-to-10-minute exercise at a time. Engagement.

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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

EdTech Magazine

4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018. Fri, 01/19/2018 - 11:48. The classroom of the future isn’t far from becoming a reality in 2018. In the vein of VR, Lynch also notes that virtual laboratories, which allow students to try lab exercises with no pressure of getting it right, will likely start to emerge. CDW Segment.

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Hope, Happiness And Social Connection: Hidden Benefits Of Regular Exercise

MindShift

In her new book, The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage, the Stanford University lecturer offer new motivation to get moving that has less to do with how we look, or feeling duty-bound to exercise, and everything to do with how movement makes us feel. 1) Activate pleasure.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Start the New Year by Articulating Your WHY

Catlin Tucker

An Exercise: What’s Your Why? This exercise is harder than it sounds. I hope this exercise serves to ground other educators as we begin 2018! If leaders are clear about their why, teachers are more likely to buy in and take risks. What strategies do you use to manifest your why? What do you do? Happy New Year!

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)

Hack Education

2018 was a year in which public school teachers all over the US rose up in protest over pay , working conditions, and funding , striking in red states like West Virginia , Kentucky, and Oklahoma despite an anti-union ruling by the Supreme Court. SXSWEDU pic.twitter.com/kyy2r7bTud — Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVosED) March 6, 2018.