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How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar

Ask a Tech Teacher

Training can include workshops, online courses, and hands-on practice sessions. A well-structured schedule helps maintain the reliability and accessibility of the Genius Bar, making it a dependable resource for the school community.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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3 Ways to Streamline Expectations While Making Things Easier for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

During workshops and coaching sessions, I am always asked what advice I have to help teachers and administrators make things as easy as possible while ensuring quality learning is taking place. I tend to refer to these as norms that everyone can get behind. Students and families win as they have on-demand access to resources.

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The Professional Learning Sweet Spot

A Principal's Reflections

For the better part of my educational career, I always referred to any type of learning to assist me as a teacher or administrator as professional development (PD). It was always referred to like this, so who was I to argue. A dynamic mash-up of workshops and coaching definitely falls into the sweet spot.

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Edtech Tools for SPED, Math, and Reading

A Principal's Reflections

They have utilized me as a keynoter, coach (leadership and teaching), and workshop presenter. As I facilitate future workshops, I will add more tools to this list that align with other content areas. Please feel free to share your suggestions in the comments section below.

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Dr. Alec Couros on Spearfishing, Citizenship, and Lateral Reading

The CoolCatTeacher

Finally, Alec is a passionate advocate of openness in education and demonstrates this commitment through his open access publications, considerable digital presence and contributions, and highly successful MOOCs and open boundary courses. Blog: [link] Twitter: @courosa Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Creating Learning Centers in a Blended Literacy Classroom

The Web20Classroom

Technology has not only provided text access at students’ differing instructional levels, but has streamlined formative assessment, and has given back precious time to teachers to work with small groups and individuals. In a workshop framework, there are 3 main components: Mini-lesson, Independent Practice, and the Share.