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Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters

The CoolCatTeacher

Organizing lesson plans, units, resources, links, IEP’s, and IEP meetings can be cumbersome and stressful. Also, data is teacher-entered and does not access existing SIS or LMS data so sensitive student privacy data is protected. Scheduling and Tracking Meetings. Their stated goal is to prevent teacher burnout.

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The League Meets the West Coast: A Look Into the Fall 2022 League Convening

Digital Promise

On October 19-21, the League of Innovative Schools convened in Los Angeles, California, for their biannual League meeting, which was hosted alongside Compton Unified School District and El Segundo Unified School District. Greenfield Union School District learned to make no assumptions about their needs and meet them where they are.

Meeting 364
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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

The CoolCatTeacher

Did you know you can use a live translator app in PTA meetings, parent teacher conferences, and presentations — that actually works? Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility 00;00;00;04 – 00;00;07;19 John Davis This is the Ten Minute Teacher Podcast with your host Vicki Davis. Bios as Submitted. Teresa Magpayo Castro.

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A Framework for Learning Through the Purposeful Use of Technology

A Principal's Reflections

One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases. Refer to the Rigor Relevance Framework to assist in integrating technology with purpose (image below).

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

Edsurge

Our collective responsibilities range from curating extensive collections, providing instructional services and supporting research activities, to ensuring the accessibility and relevance of our digital and physical resources for our students and faculty members. It enabled me to approach the transformation empathetically and patiently.

Meeting 129
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Run your meetings edcamp style: The un-faculty faculty meeting

eSchool News

If you’re like most educators, you don’t have the time to waste on unproductive faculty meetings. That’s why administrators and teacher leaders should transform faculty meetings into engaging professional development (PD) opportunities. We did that in my school and increased faculty attendance by 10 percent on faculty meeting days !

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Writing Scaffolds to Meet Diverse Learning Needs

A Principal's Reflections

These teachers believe that differentiation is about access points. For example, Mrs. Montecuollo and Mrs. Westbrook could read student responses and be clear about what each writer needed to add or change in order to meet standard. Annotated Student Exemplar Figure 2.

Meeting 309