Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. Today, social media plays an outsized role in how people get their information. Sometimes easier. The Benefits of Media Literacy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

The Stanley Black and Decker Making for Good Student Challenge runs now through Thursday, January 30, 2020 for students in the US in grades 9-12. The CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge is for students in the US in grades 5-8 now through February 13, 2020. Join in today! Subscribe to the Show Get Credit!

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Waterford

JANUARY 19, 2021

Read on for an overview of what Black History Month is and how to celebrate it with your students. This page has hunts broken down by grade level for elementary, middle, and high school students. This online resource from Teachervision has age-appropriate videos for students. January 2020. January 2020.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started. Iditarod Teacher: How to Connect and Learn from the Iditarod Race. When and how can teachers apply to be able to do what you are doing? Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Zywicki (@ZywickiR) March 16, 2020 Suggest lots of independent reading. Determine how feedback will be given once school reopens. Facilitating lessons using live video is excellent.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

As school districts continue to make and revise plans to open the 2020–2021 school year, many are considering adopting blended or hybrid learning-based schedules. Ruben Montoya, director of edtech systems at the Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, agrees. Let's take care of ourselves, too.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

percent for fall 2020 over fall 2019, according to federal data — OTC says it had a 14 percent rise last summer and only a 2 percent drop this fall. Ayers and rootEd are demonstrating how barriers to higher education can be overcome with effective personalized guidance. The post How to raise rural enrollment in higher education?

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Artwork submissions for this free youth art contest are accepted this year from November 1, 2019, through January 31, 2020. Toyota Dream Car Art Contest invites youth, ages 4-15, to submit their original hand-drawn artworks that answer the question, “If you could design a car to make the world a better place, what would it look like?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Although educators are trying to keep schools open during the pandemic, they still have to figure out how to educate children quarantining at home. Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Principal Meredith Akers shares how to motivate and encourage others From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Have you ever made the mistake of giving other people the kind of feedback you want to receive – but it just fell flat? Still, others really love graphics or video.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Well, she's got these videos. And she got through like three quarters of the content in a semester, and that's when Aaron and I began to say, “Well, what if we kind of did a mastery thing?” 00;03;03;05 – 00;03;23;09 Jon Bergmann Because I create cheesy videos about physics and chemistry content. How long was in the air?

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

If possible, teachers and professors should use multiple modes of conveying information (video, audio, text slides, etc.) Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) Administration and Leadership How is all this being negotiated with teachers unions? Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) How will this affect teacher pay?

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 15, 2020

Working Remotely with My Gifted Elementary Students. Writing Children’s Book Narrative – Prior to the school closing, my learners spent quite a bit of time learning how to write a children’s book using a Dr. Seuss type of writing style (yes, I know he is controversial but I like his writing style).

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MindShift

MAY 17, 2021

This school year, kindergarteners learned how to turn on and off their web cameras and mute buttons alongside spelling and reading fundamentals. Courtney Miller’s son is in kindergarten at Glen Cove Elementary in Vallejo, California. Parents told her they appreciated the online library provided by the collected videos. “It

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. Staggering student schedules helps with social distancing, but class sizes in Clark County were as high as 40 in some elementary schools before the coronavirus emerged.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. A deluge of similar clips ended up in her feed.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Dealing with the complex issues of students living in crisis, including the shared trauma of the global pandemic, often leaves teachers wondering how to adapt or intervene,” the report says. I had parents write me and say, ‘I watched your video, that was amazing. So much fun. This looks like a great project.’

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Mathew Felton-Koestler, known as “Mathy Matt” on his YouTube channel , makes videos for parents that explain why and how young kids are learning math these days. He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Credit: Michelle Majdoch.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2020, nine U.S. Advocates say personal finance courses could pay dividends if students learn how to make wiser money decisions and avoid financial hazards. Since 2020, nine U.S. Advocates say that left untaught, teens and young adults may turn to questionable sources, such as TikTok or YouTube videos.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Beyond the tricky technical and logistical issues involved -- not to mention equity and safety issues -- teachers are also trying to understand how to re-formulate their curriculum. Elementary Math and Science Khan Academy Kids. Elementary ELA and Social Studies Epic! Elementary Arts and Creativity Book Creator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation. Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

In April 2020 he released a bestselling book with co-author Judy Mikovits, a discredited scientist who claim that vaccines “kill millions.” Middle school science teacher Bertha Vazquez helps students who are creating original videos on Newton’s laws of motion, using props from home and video-editing software.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Back in the spring of 2020, before my tween daughters became obsessed with Minecraft YouTube, I thought I had pandemic parenting figured out. This refers to the private Minecraft server that Dream launched in April 2020 so he and a few gamer friends could explore a new update to the game. We made family dinners. Credit: @SuertoSean.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Chris Chappotin has been serving as Assistant Superintendent for Boyd ISD in Boyd, TX since January 2020. Norwood Elementary School. Furthermore, he was the parody writer and voice of Burleson ISD's school year launch videos from 2016 to 2019. Stream by clicking here. Subscribe to the Show. Chris Chappotin - Bio As Submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2022

We share how we have navigated the stresses and struggles of teaching as we seek to live a balanced life and do what matters. In addition to the podcast, I've included some inspiring poems, quotes, and a video from the day I learned to walk this past May. How do I care for myself when I want to care for everybody else?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But inside Nikhil Bhatia’s classroom, the evidence was on the whiteboard, where the math teacher was shading in slices of a pie to illustrate how to find a common denominator. We have kids who don’t understand how to put a period somewhere in your sentence, or how to put spaces between their words,” Myers said. “I

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 19, 2020

In my newly released, self-paced course, “ Developing the Innovator’s Mindset Through Remote, Face-to-Face, and Blended Learning ,” there is a focus throughout on the following question: “How do we build relationships in remote learning environments and address the social-emotional needs of our students?”

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MindShift

MARCH 4, 2020

Originally posted on Chalkbeat on March 3, 2020. Now, he wants to teach his peers how to meditate, too. They’re halfway through an eight-week intensive program at school that teaches them how to facilitate meditation groups. I’ve started teaching my two friends who got suspended how to meditate,” he said.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

In 2020, VHS Learning awarded a total of $5,000 in scholarships to 12 recipients. All scholarship recipients created videos that answered the scholarship program’s question for this year: “Please describe the skills you have learned in your VHS Learning course that you feel will be helpful in college or your career, and why.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is intervention time at Vitovsky Elementary, where nearly 60 percent of students come from low-income backgrounds and a quarter are learning English. A “sound wall” at Vitovsky Elementary features different speech sounds, breaking up vowels and consonants. “Sap,” Simpson said. 19, 2021, in Midlothian, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In this required 12-week “Introduction to Mindfulness” course taught by Worthen, a full-time mindfulness instructor, students at the private boarding school in Concord, Massachusetts, will learn how to develop awareness of their thoughts and body sensations, sit with difficult emotions and direct their attention to the present moment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

In early January, Leonardo Amador, principal of Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, talks about how his staff members use the MAP Accelerator to boost students’ math skills. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. Published with permission.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For many people, math fears can be traced back to elementary school, and specifically, to timed tests and forced memorization, says Stanford University professor Jo Boaler. Blocks, puzzles, card games and even video games all have some research support. Copyright 2020 NPR. And board games are particular stars in this area.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2016

This web-based scalable program is available for elementary through high school students and can last anywhere from four weeks to a year. For students, there are CSTEM camps and competitions to showcase the robot wizardry of programmers from elementary through high school. Here’s how you get started: download the free software.

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