The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

Today Weston Kieschnick @wes_kieschnick helps us how to go bold school with blended learning. Old school plus blended learning = bold school. In today’s show, Weston Kieschnick talks about blended learning and old school teaching: The old school wisdom we should hold onto. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Traditionally, literacy educators spent long hours gathering resources, developing tasks and extensions, and reading and analyzing assessment to determine if the instruction was meeting the needs of students. In a workshop framework, there are 3 main components: Mini-lesson, Independent Practice, and the Share.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards, complete weekly projects/summatives, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. How to Leverage Technology to Teach and Assess Writing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Exhibit a positive attitude toward technology that supports learning. Assess student writing without discouraging creativity via easy-to-use tech tools.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

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. It can become the hub for all lessons, videos, activities, assessments, and student work.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2020

It also provides school leaders with a lens to provide valuable feedback to teachers when it comes to addressing priority standards, implementing scaffolding techniques, creating performance tasks, and developing quality assessments. Professional Learning Many schools were not prepared when the pandemic hit.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2022

One important lesson learned was that face-to-face learning does not meet the needs of every child. Learning Management System (LMS) The consistent use of an LMS such as Google Classroom, Schoology, or Canvas works to create a more equitable virtual environment for all kids and families.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The post Engage Students AND Meet Standards with Student Podcasting! – SULS0134 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Jen shares how podcasting can help students meet content standards, explore their interests, learn new skills, tap into the 4 c’s, and engage in authentic learning. Click To Tweet. .

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Neo LMS

MAY 17, 2022

The classic workshop model is not enough anymore because everyone gets the same information regardless of their expertise and prior knowledge. Between grading, paperwork, meetings, and much more — without even considering their personal lives — teachers are overwhelmed by their workload. Do a needs assessment for teachers.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 10, 2023

We can definitely find ways to use things like Chat GPT and other similar AI tools in our learning and assessments. One of those resources is a self-assessment tool to examine how well a teacher is providing inclusive strategies. Did you know that Shake Up Learning offers several online courses and workshops?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

I relish the opportunity for an in-person meeting or training to connect with colleagues and partners. Prioritize sessions that were most relevant to my work—that is, engaging adults in online and blended learning paradigms—and download collaborative notes (with presentation slides and speaker info) from the sessions I couldn’t attend.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2019

In 2017, at the end of our third year of implementing personalized learning at Dallas ISD, our central personalized learning team conducted a series of stepback meetings with school leaders. We wanted to learn their biggest concerns around implementation, along with what was and wasn’t working for them.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago. We were collecting data from a variety of assessments, but the interventions we were using just weren’t showing that students were making consistent progress as readers.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Working with that group, I really found my tribe, and I really worked to explore and expand myself in a leadership role and helping other teachers in other districts build their own blended-learning capacities. So I think I developed myself as a leader through some of my external pieces. How does that work?

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In the months since launching our school and district pilot program , the Kiddom team has collectively spent thousands of hours meeting with administrators to better understand their workflows, facilitate contextualized staff workshops, and support ongoing partnerships. Blended Learning 101. Blended Learning 102.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

The priority focus areas are student engagement, responsive and inclusive teaching and learning, and meeting all learners’ needs. Districtwide support for social-emotional learning (SEL) through workshops and coaching for teachers and social workers to expand the capacity for support at each site.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But looking at 2024, here are some current trends in education: Technology Integration: Continued integration of technology into classrooms, with a focus on online learning, educational apps, and interactive tools. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): Increased emphasis on social-emotional learning to support students’ well-being.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process. They’ve found more effective ways to monitor and assess student learning, and they’re going to share those strategies here with you today. They’ll also share their best hacks and time-saving tips related to grading and assessment.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Over the course of my last 4+ years focusing on redesigning professional development, I have worked to meet teachers where they are, while giving them the most up-to-date PD offerings that they can choose from an array of workshops, discussions, and more. Include quick assessments after any content knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2017

Moodle got its start years ago as a method to organize blended learning and online classes. Now, it provides over 90 million educators, administrators, and learners in over 200 countries with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. Otus–Exciting Free LMS You Want to Meet.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 28, 2020

We’ve covered a lot of ground in Part 1 and Part 2–needs assessment, planning, creative scheduling, and adult learning strategies. In part 3, I share activities for engaging adult learners in blended PD, facilitation tips, and some sample schedules to pull it all together. Evidence of Learning.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 2, 2019

Attendees can choose from a wide range of sessions, with topics covering technology, assessment, STEM, and working with bilingual students. Join MIND colleagues at various speaker presentations and workshops throughout the conference: Math Innovation Zones Year 1: A Journey With Southside ISD. CAMT 2019 will take place at the Henry B.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Education Elements’ leadership PD and consultative approach helped us change the way we run meetings—they’re efficient, more effective, and inclusive of all attendees. They don’t have to think in terms of ‘I can’t go on my vacation this summer because I have to attend face-to-face PD workshops.’ It’s giving teachers a break.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students. They’re invited to meet the candidates and ask questions during the interview.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 14, 2020

I have put together a Blended PD Framework that I hope will help us approach this problem with purpose. This episode is Part 1 in the series, where I will share some important steps in the planning process–the needs assessment, defining your goals, pre-assessment, and scheduling. Join a Shake Up Learning book study.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

As challenge-based learning grows in popularity, let’s think of ways that we can use Google Classroom to allow students and teachers to, “sign-up,” for optional challenges by joining a Google Classroom Class designed to detail the challenge, provide resources, and allow the user to submit their evidence for meeting the challenge.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2019

To Organize and Blend Teacher Workshop Assignments. Google Classroom is a great way to organize your face-to-face teacher workshop materials and assignments. This also allows you to model what blending learning will look like in the classroom. Liz Dolan: “Yes. To Teach an Online Course. To Support Absentees.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 17, 2018

If not, consider forming multiple groups to better meet the needs of everyone. Is your goal to help teachers learn how to develop better assessments? Flag the sections that you expect could meet resistance or disagreement. When and where will you meet to discuss? Support from Shake Up Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

During his work at KIPP Empower, Kim realized there was a need for providing a scalable way to support schools and districts with blended learning. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. Plan and Align The work began in May 2015 with a diagnostic readiness assessment.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. She scores much lower on online exams than in person assessments. This leap was unfathomable to me.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In this model, teachers can no longer attend a workshop and receive credit for merely being there. Instead, they must take their learning back into their classrooms and try it out, submitting evidence, receiving feedback from peers and refining their approach. Micro-credentials have the benefit of being rooted in classroom practice.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2017

According to the HyperDocs site , HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. They are created by teachers and given to students to engage, educate, and inspire learning. Workshop Model.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Please either sign up or stop by to say hello as I provide a workshop on going beyond the textbook. Check out my PBL and Technology Integration Workshop.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 22, 2021

It was unable to meet benchmarks. There were very few functional systems,” he explained, “that guaranteed valuable curriculum, meaningful assessments, teacher empowerment, administrative oversight, teacher and student and parent engagement that focused on student success.”. Its graduation rate was about 29%.

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