The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. What does the self-talk say to yourself when you just don’t know how you’re going to do it? Tom: You know, I read a really good book lately by a professor at UT at Knoxville, from Dr. Amy Broemmel. Vicki: You have quoted several books.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For the first quarter of the year, I’ve been exploring how to start book clubs in our school in a variety of ways. I hoped that by offering a variety of ways to engage with a book, that we would support many different interests, availabilities, and format preferences.

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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. After facilitating each PD session, Hurh sends out a survey to attendees.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They want step-by-step guidance on how to tackle challenges. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated. Every state now has policies on the books that provide the flexibility needed for more learner-centered approaches.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I’ve read their books and articles. Librarians may be struggling with how to support kids socially and emotionally, and with assuming that responsibility of how to get kids through this malaise that many now bring to their learning. I’ve heard them speak. But, I am hoping many of the questions will focus on students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. What does the self-talk say to yourself when you just don’t know how you’re going to do it? Tom: You know, I read a really good book lately by a professor at UT at Knoxville, from Dr. Amy Broemmel. Vicki: You have quoted several books.

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Twitter Flipped Classroom Elementary Advocacy 90

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

These are vital skills for a generation of children who look beyond printed books carefully curated by librarians. It’s not just about reading the news; open educational resources hold promise, too, but only if people know how to flag quality information. And that work must begin early, the authors say – in elementary school, ideally.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The spread of information and advocacy is increasing awareness around dyslexia, and many who have experienced reading struggles are beginning to find their way through school—and life beyond it—more easily. In elementary school, “I didn’t understand what was going on,” she says. “I VOICES OF DYSLEXIA: FOUR DIFFERENT PATHS TO SUCCESS.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

In a non-gamey, but quietly interactive approach, Kate Zaleski, Library Media Specialist at the Woodland School in Warren, NJ, reports that she plans welcome students with a read aloud of Kate Messner’s How to Read a Story. These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

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. One way to teach how science is made is to let the children experience and figure it out for themselves. START EARLY.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

Next week we'll be announcing the book groups that are starting. Information on hosting or joining a book is at bookschangelives.org. She is the author of eight books, including Liberating Genius , The Habitudes and The Passion Driven Classroom. As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. Girls have easier access to same-gender reading role models (moms, pre-school and elementary teachers, school librarians and children’s librarians are typically female), and now they also have access to role models in male-dominated fields and professions. Males as Reading Role Models.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. 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. Inequity looms large.

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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. High school teacher Harley Brook has pondered using the books on this shelf as weapons in the case of an active shooter scenario. Lockdown instructions posted in Nivia Vizurraga’s elementary school classroom.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Students with other disabilities, such as autism, may have trouble knowing how to act in social situations. It’s a crisis. Our kids are graduating to the couch.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts. Among other things, Talbott says the book contained grammatical errors and introduced instructional ideas that teachers did not think supported students’ needs.) A principal weighs in.

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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.” And yet, there are proven ways to teach people with dyslexia how to read that are not new or controversial. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. The reading wars.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

EPISODE 9: How Do I Navigate My Family’s Fall Homeschool Options? We Turned Out OK Episode 152, talking with two professors of Early Childhood Education on how the dearth of open-ended play has negatively impacted so many, including college students with whom they work. Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? hours a day. (UCA)

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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. For example, she might have read a book like “What Is at the Zoo,” in which each page follows a predictable pattern: Are there elephants at the zoo?

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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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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. Students used the green screen in the library to film a skit about a Big Nate book that they read. It isn’t just about technology or just about books.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

In an effort to minimize screen time now that students are home all day, Rhode Island state education officials are promoting reading for leisure, with an at-home challenge for students to spend 20-60 minutes every day reading a book. In his math lessons, some students are just learning how to read a menu and find the prices.

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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. 1 – Give students options about how to answer the question.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Sure, she learned the ABCs, but making sense of how these symbols we call letters combine to form the sounds that make up the English language – that part stumped her. Her first teachers used Dick and Jane style books with simple, repetitive phrases. . And from what she remembers nobody taught her those skills as a kid. .

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Advocacy Elementary Meeting Report 62

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

Among Sharon’s resources are: How to use the document and How to use the document in PDF format Weekly plan for Secondary Weekly plan for Elementary Detailed/unit plan Sample plans for elementary , secondary , unit All of the documents in one folder Documents may be copied one at a time.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Over the summer, photos began to circulate of children, bundled in warm coats, mittens and thick hats, reading books at their desks, outside, in the New York City winter. and the San Mateo County Office of Education—got in touch to see how they could work together to help schools reopen safely—that is, outdoors—in the fall. “I’m

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Along with anxiety, Charlene Boles, an elementary teacher in Westminster, Colorado, had headaches, stomach problems and a racing heartbeat she could never quite explain. And then there was Stephanie Hughes, who taught elementary school in North Carolina for four years before moving to Indiana this past summer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

She became an educator in 2007 and has spent most of her career teaching special needs students at a majority-Hispanic public elementary school in the Bronx. He learns how to perform daily activities, like sharing meals and keeping tantrums in check. While he still doesn’t talk, he’s obsessed with letters and learning how to sign.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

But since the tech keeps upgrading and evolving, teachers need to receive ongoing training on how to best use the resources to support their students. Dr. Kristi Wilson has served as Superintendent of the Buckeye Elementary School District in Buckeye, Arizona for the past eight years. Have tech and business offices work together.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. Anti-Racist Education: How to Get There. The books should have just Black characters who are presented as fully human in terms of curiosity, friendships, likes, and dislikes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In Allison McIntosh’s nearby seventh grade science classroom, students were three weeks into a project in which they had to draw a comic book story of a geologic site’s past, present and future based on the conditions that build up or chip away at mountains, carve valleys and dry out lakes. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If it is, it is not going to be successful because your principals aren’t going to know how to support the teachers on a daily basis…you have to make sure that your principals know how to support and are part of the creation of that vision.”. “This cannot be a central office issue; this cannot be a central office initiative.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

There are also recommendations for how to set up ground rules. Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations (by Facing History): While this requires a login to download, it's a worthwhile, overarching resource for how to build a classroom culture focused on constructive discussion.

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