The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. And I’ve been in the classroom now for ten years. And the book is called Learning to be Teacher Leaders.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

We are nearing the end of November, which means the close of Picture Book Month. Jenny Lussier, Cathy Potter, Shawna Ford, Kathy Kaldenberg, and I created the very first Picture Book Smackdown which was held via Google Hangout on November 21, 2013. For one hour, we all shared as many picture book talks as possible.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

They join our already-regular shows: " REINVENTING.SCHOOL " with Howard Blumenthal and " The Connected Classroom " with Rusty May. Next week we'll be announcing the book groups that are starting. Information on hosting or joining a book is at bookschangelives.org. As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. Third, why creativity is important and a little bit of an upsetting story from one of her middle school teachers about what testing was actually doing to harm students in his classroom. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom ”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. It’s because we’re mostly women,” she explained. Women’s work in general is undervalued.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. Record your own voice over.

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Twitter Flipped Classroom Elementary Advocacy 89

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. I’ll shelve books. Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

students will work in teams of two to four to collect the Seesaw emojis posted around your classroom. This gives kids a chance to follow the model, interact with classmates, and I can see what books interest them and also get an idea of their reading abilities as I observe. In Seesaw Go! She will have students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The teenager would write down the wrong number when solving a math problem, even knowing the right answer, or read the same page of a book several times to pick up basic details. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In

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MindShift

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Even before COVID-19 , recent studies found that 93% of elementary school teachers and 94% of middle school teachers experience high stress. In March, Zayas volunteered to facilitate a teacher support group organized by Teach Plus Texas , an organization that trains teachers for policy leadership and advocacy.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 26, 2017

When I first became a principal at an elementary school, I thought I had the requisite knowledge to be a literacy leader. My previous experiences in the classroom as a teacher of readers and writers led this misconception. I cited the need to get the schedule, budget, and rosters ready before the students arrived.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In a survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led advocacy group, gun violence ranked as teachers’ No. Some told us about the classroom supplies they’ve transformed into tools of survival: a cement hall pass ready to be used as a bludgeon, a ball of yarn that can double as a tourniquet band. 1 school safety concern.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Even in a district that’s able to send every kid home with a laptop, you’re still trying to adapt a model that’s been designed for a classroom situation.” What works for a high school in a major urban area may not fit the needs of a rural elementary school. on March 18, 2020.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

It’s a really hard thing to teach within the space of everything else that you need to teach in a classroom,” Joyce said. Many of these critical thinking concepts are not difficult but need to become habits adopted early in life, which is why Oxman first tried them out in his children’s elementary school classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders. Not anymore.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly. She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Steve Steve Hargadon LearningRevolution.com | Library 2.0 | Classroom 2.0 | GlobalEducationConference.org More about this week's guests: Lian Chikako Chang: " I'm a data storyteller. Tasha Ring is a licensed early childhood and elementary educator specializing in multisensory-based methodologies. See you "online!"

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Kolleen Bouchane, Policy and Advocacy Director Turning Interests into Insights: Using Data Visualizations to Teach Global Issues - Ann Marie Gleeson, Ph.D., 5:00pm Achieving Transnational Spaces Through Collective Will - Dr. Join the movement to all children everywhere access to education.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . The TEA also mailed books directly to students’ homes this summer. .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 His approach, focused on equitable access to books and engaging the community, has left a remarkable mark. One of his standout achievements was creating a committee consisting of teachers, parents, and students to handpick summer take-home books from Lerner Publishing Group.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. In high school, his teachers gave general tips on how to handle college work, such as using an assignment book to keep track of your due dates.

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MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

Teachers need to be careful not to engage in any explicit political advocacy in the classroom. You can, of course, direct students to relevant articles from newspapers and blogs, but there are also a host of resources specifically tuned to classroom needs. Gaining Perspective Through Books and Films.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Creating excitement Librarians and teachers routinely review usage statistics such as books opened, time read, reading sessions, average time per session and per book, total unique users, and achievements earned. Staying close to the data has helped the district bolster both enthusiasm for and competency in reading.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Students in Kelly McCarthy’s first-grade classroom end the period with a vocabulary word game. A hallway at Franklin Elementary school lined with tiny lockers and student art. Joseph Pirozzi at Franklin Elementary in Syracuse, N.Y., In English classes, you see students reading books about exotic animals and dinosaurs.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

One of those leaders is Jennifer Latimer of Clinton Elementary School Library in Maplewood, NJ, who blogs as Anywhere Librarian and tweets as @jenlatimer. That learning can come from books, but it can also come from the internet and exploration. I reconnected with Jennifer when she accepted the Jean E.

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Reading By Example

APRIL 12, 2017

She is participating in Genius Hour in her classroom. This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. Throw a book in there and I’m sold. My daughter has elected to bring home learning.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As an elementary principal, I cannot remember the last time I attended a conference for administrators. Consider: How can you budget your building dollars to best meet students’ needs, when you aren’t aware that having a broad selection of authentic, high-interest literature in classrooms is essential?

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When he opens a book, he sees “just a whole bunch of words, a whole bunch of letters lined up.” “In the mornings when students came into the classroom, they would write that they’d brought their lunch or that they were going to purchase lunch in the cafeteria,” she said. Disagreements Over Reality .

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 19, 2015

I imagine the beginnings of this book idea came about from a conversation between Thomas Newkirk, editor at Heinemann, and Alfie Kohn, frequent commentator on education, that sounded somewhat like the following: Thomas Newkirk: Hey Alfie, what are your thoughts on writing another book for Heinemann? You can book your blog?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The cause, as activists saw it, was partly “the absence of systematic, cumulative, phonics-based reading instruction in the early elementary classroom,” they later wrote in an open letter. In Emily VanDerhoff’s first-grade classroom this fall, Fairfax students have mastered consonant-vowel-consonant words: cat, bed, dog.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

My name is Andy Plemmons, school library media specialist at David C Barrow Elementary in Athens GA @barrowmediacenter I will take over the DOE account this week. There's not just one teacher in a classroom. Students used the green screen in the library to film a skit about a Big Nate book that they read.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Webinar #2: The Elementary-School Years Webinar #3: What Will We Do Now That We’re Learning at Home? EPISODE 9: How Do I Navigate My Family’s Fall Homeschool Options? THE STARTING TO HOMESCHOOL SERIES Webinar #1: Why Should I Homeschool?

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Learn the story and the lesson plan and book that will help you build bridges with your students. Book Giveaway Contest. I wish My Teacher Knew Book Giveaway Contest. And she also has a book , and we’ll be hosting a giveaway for it on the show today. How can teachers use this question in their classrooms?

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