The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we prepare to learn this fall, we need to consider some teaching best practices. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 20, 2019

Julie is an Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) coach and has coached elementary, middle, and high school teams of teachers on how to use the framework in order to increase the level of intellectual demand as well as the authenticity of the work that students are asked to do.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2019

Meredith Akers – Bio As Submitted Meredith Akers is an Elementary Principal who believes that the best way to help others grow is to build relationships, offer support, serve, love, and be transparent about how she is working to grow herself. I think this is important advice we can use. Please share what you’re doing!

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

A course to help support your learning goal of using social media effectively is Social Media Tools for Teaching and Learning. This course will teach you how to plan and integrate social media into your classroom. You can best help your students implement these tech tools by learning how to use them yourself.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

Insurance – Understanding how to make wise insurance decisions. Saving and Managing Expenses – In this scenario, students help advise a person on how to manage their paycheck and daily expenses. Data Science Foundations teaches: Real World – Students learn about the real-world problems a data scientist would solve.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much? Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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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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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. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This Thursday, December 6 from 1-3 pm Eastern Time, Edweek is hosting an event about personalized learning. I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/econ for more information and remember to tweet out your pics about how you teach your students using #PowerofEcon. The Best PD for Math Teachers (and How to Use It). It turns out there are lots of “chat” hashtags — #scichat and #edchat and #elemchat (elementary). Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and lead developer of RULER , a systemic, evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning reflects on where students are now and how to reach them. Listen to Dr. Marc Brackett talk about how to help students learn now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. Every STEM educator should take a look at these resources and integrate them into their blended or online learning environment. How can we ensure STEM is more than just a buzzword?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2023

With April being financial literacy month, there's no better time to tune in and learn how to integrate financial literacy into your curriculum. Episode 801 Empower Your Students: Tips to Teach Financial Literacy Like a Pro In this episode, Financial Literacy Expert Brian Page shares how to teach financial literacy in the classroom.

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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

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. He showed off solar systems made of foam and sticks and I shared a stuffed rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

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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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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. textbook or testing company).

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

We talk about all sorts of things, from how to engage as a citizen in the United States to different laws and court cases that have an impact on them. They had some great points to make about how much employers, or government, or colleges should be able to sort of dictate what they’re doing while they’re in community with their friends.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In this example, a student who likes Harry Potter learns how to program a sorting hat simulator. Every resource and instruction is available inside Tract to guide a student through this learning adventure. Teachers can help students create a learning path consistent with the school's standards and objectives.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

How to Stop Letter Reversals in Their Tracks. Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Remote and Hybrid Learning. How to Avoid Teacher Burnout in the 2021-22 School Year. Teaching Problem Solving in Math for Elementary Learners. Create an Equitable and Engaging Bilingual Virtual Classroom for Early Learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They've been learning about projectile motion. Or, you know, how far does it go? How long was in the air? And so I've made videos and how physicists know how to figure out where the ball's going to land. This is basically, I mean what the book really, it's kind of a how to manual. Questions like that.

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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

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. We incorporated our company in Delaware, held meetings as a board and divvied up shares. It was fun, meaningful work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. I’ve been able to just sit back and facilitate questioning and watch them ask questions and take learning beyond our classroom. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. Vicki: This is intriguing. Blog: [link].

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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. For example, this slide show on how to read population pyramids is useful.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Defined Learning sponsored this blog post. Go to [link] to receive free 60-day access to all of Defined Learning’s PBL resources. I would add if you have an external portfolio tool that at certain points in the year, students can download and pull the best items out of Defined Learning to showcase there as well.).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

Enhanced Transcript Hyperdocs: How to and Success Tips for Teachers Vicki: Today we have Lisa Scumpieru @ LScumpieru , who’s a first grade English teacher from Maryland, and we’re talking Hyperdocs. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. Most schools are completely unprepared – or, at best, woefully underprepared – for coronavirus and virtual learning.

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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?”. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Thanks so much. Leave a comment.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

Rising kindergarteners through second graders at North Rowan Elementary School in Rowan Salisbury Schools participated in a three-week STEAM camp to jumpstart learning in the weeks before school. Students were also exposed to careers through company tours and guest lecturers from the field. Adjusting the academic calendar.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For districts in need of additional technologies to make hybrid classrooms successful, here's a closer look at the new funding available and how to secure it: ESSER Funds and How to Use Them The original CARES Act included an education stabilization fund called Elementary and Secondary Education Emergency Relief (ESSER).

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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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