Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 20, 2019

Her many areas of expertise include deeper thinking with technology, authentic learning, curriculum design, and performance tasks and assessments. She spent thirteen years as a technology coordinator and business and computer teacher.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

teachers in mid-March to collect and share best practices, ideas, and common approaches to remote learning. More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Like teachers, they are working crazy hours to help keep learning going.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, I'm amazed at the impact technology can have on the learning process—especially when it enables teachers to personalize learning. One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” 6) Webinar—Blended Learning: Which Model Works For You?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. provide a clear module-based learning path culminating in a ready to use action plan. assess success at completion. How to get started. Elementary Math. Blended Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

How to get to the site. You’ll see when you login that you start off by being able to add activities, explore the resources they have, or get some training on how to use this collaborative learning tool. In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. .

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

He adds, “Kids are allowed to learn at their own pace, and can learn experientially.” When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I focus on how to learn rather than what to learn. I’ve addressed this in Freedom to Learn : In order to facilitate these desired elements of learning, I believe it is important to focus on the process of learning rather than the products of learning. I am a process-oriented educator.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Middle school students are still at the elementary level, and upper elementary students are still figuring out the basics of numeracy. Through web-based reports, teachers can track each student’s usage and assessment data to inform instruction at school. Next page: Taking a blended approach to math for ELL).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 17, 2020

It teaches how to organize your topics so that students can find their files, how to take attendance (and connect with students while you do), a discussion about due dates, and how to teach students to find files and respond. This is a must-watch. *

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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. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space. The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. Learn how she helps students learn and progress using technology. It’s OK to have a faceplant every now and then because we learn from it, and we grow, and it’s just awesome.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Because the videos begin with how to set up an Educaplay account, I recommend that you skip to 47 seconds by dragging the slider bar so you can get directly to how to create the specific classroom learning game. The automatic grading feature will save time for teachers who have diagrams that need to be assessed and marked.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Acceleration research can teach us how to accelerate learning. Dr. Douglas Fisher, co-author of the best-selling book Rebound, Grades K-12: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools. A 4 Part Distance Learning Framework that Works with Dr. Douglas Fisher.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

And then there’s Seoul Foreign School in South Korea, which serves about 1,500 students from elementary to high school, and where teachers have been using a hybrid approach for about a week, explains Tanya LeClair, a digital learning coach who is originally from Canada. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M.,

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Mónica Ruiz, principal at Montgomery Elementary in Chula Vista, CA. The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Tune in to learn more about Global Connections Week and other great ideas from Monica! Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Boost your student engagement on any devices wherever learning needs to happen. To conclude the lesson, teachers can assign formative assessments. About Monica Alicea.

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EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

How can we craft learning environments that take advantage of technology to help students become independent, engaged, and reflective of their work? Knowing how to use the technology with the curriculum is critical to crafting a digital age learning environment. Having technology is just one important piece.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Consider how students might use a podcast as an assessment tool. Students can present their learning on any topic without having to write it all out or record with their faces being displayed. Students were able to Google directions for how to get them up and running. © Shake Up Learning 2021.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools can get started with using blended learning platforms. What Are Blended Learning Platforms? eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 02/13/2019 - 14:12. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Kristen Mattson, author of Digital Citizenship in Action talks about how they’ve integrated digital citizenship into all of their courses at her school and how you can too. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

And so that's the big idea of mastery learning, is that if a student fails a test, right, so summative assessment, then they take it again until they reach mastery. They've been learning about projectile motion. Or, you know, how far does it go? How long was in the air? Jon Bergmann - Bio as Submitted.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I didn’t have the technical know-how to code the site, but as an instructional coach and leader of my school’s behavior support team, I did have experience building efficient operations and logistics. I saw that I needed to move beyond formative assessment of skills. Claire Cummings' Third Grade Classroom, Image Credit: Claire Cumming.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

I can’t imagine having to do both,” said Abby Bjornson, a fourth-grade teacher at Munford Elementary School in Talladega County. Bjornson didn’t know what to expect when she volunteered to teach students remotely last August; she was motivated, she said, by an interest in learning new technology. Leaning on existing expertise. “I

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject. These projects are created around Understanding by Design (UbD) principles to emphasize STEM education and have tools to help students customize, evaluate, assess and create portfolios. Defined Learning sponsored this blog post.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This includes empowering schools through our Innovative Tech Framework (tech.svvsd.org/support/itf) and TeCHoices, knowing that their planning will benefit students as designers, communicators, and collaborators,” said Kahle Charles, Assistant Superintendent of Assessment, Curriculum, and Instruction, St. About the Learning Counsel.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. Lisa Keith, blended learning specialist, Guilford County (NC) School District. Elizabeth Leone, EL teacher, Webster Elementary School, Manchester, New Hampshire. “In

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Episode 794 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations Dr. Liz Kolb, clinical associate professor of education technologies at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Learning First, Technology Second, and Learning First, Technology Second: In Practice. Click Here.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. A recent study within a number of school districts, including the Middletown City School District, showed significantly greater academic growth in blended learning versus traditional classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. They have a Personalized Learning Implementation Framework that guides users through 25 key areas of personalized learning. It can work for those just starting or those already on a personalized learning path.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. While it can be hard to share out the myriad of little things teachers do that are so effective, we do have a tool that can help—data.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Certain edtech tools allow the teacher to use a dashboard to track student progress in real time, including: Teachers do not have to wait until the bell rings or until they have formally addressed the class to get their students’ learning started. Socrative’s free version does not require students to create accounts.

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