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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment. Instead, give them opportunities to document their thinking with drawings and art. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself.

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Washington State Releases K12 AI Guidance

The Thinking Stick

I am proud to announce the first of many documents being released by the @waospi on guidance for K12 educators in the state of Washington. This is just the first of many documents that will be coming from the AI Committee that I am honored to be co-facilitating in doing this work. of Education , and Teachai just to name a few.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

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. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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The Station Rotation Model Tip # 4: Encourage Offline Student Collaboration Using Talking Chips

Catlin Tucker

Teachers indicate who the conversation captains are by putting an asterisk next to their names on whatever document they use to project the student groups. This student encourages others to share and helps to keep the group on task. If needed, the teacher can also provide a tent for the conversation captain in each group.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement.

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Strengthening Schools’ Writing Instruction Through the Use of Data

edWeb.net

Yet writing well has become an increasingly important 21st century skill due to online college and job applications, as well as the reliance on email and collaborative documents in many 21st century careers. Writing is often difficult for educators to teach, challenging for students to do, and hard for administrators to monitor and evaluate.

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Personalizing the Journey for Our Students

The Principal of Change

Katie Novak , an internationally recognized expert in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and all-around awesome person, discusses this personalization of learning for students and why it is so significant : Imagine this scene in a 3rd-grade classroom: Students are sitting quietly on the floor as a teacher reads Charlotte’s Web aloud.

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