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Keep, Start, Stop: A Student Feedback Strategy

Catlin Tucker

In the template I created for teachers , there are two additional slides with sentence starters for elementary and secondary students. Ultimately, I wanted my students to actively engage with the texts we were reading so they would understand and retain the information. I explored a few options and decided to make a change.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “I used to think…Now, I think…” routine. Teachers can use this step to encourage students to assess the credibility of their evidence and select information that effectively strengthens their claims.

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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Catlin Tucker

In a series of blogs, I’ll be exploring each thinking routine and providing suggestions for how teachers across grade levels can harness the power of these thinking routines with students. This critical thinking process encourages them to draw inferences, identify patterns, and make informed interpretations.

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How to Use AI to Help You Make Substitute Teacher Lesson Plans in a Snap

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Substitute teachers, like teachers, are heroes. I could make a customGPT with this, but for this blog post, I'm demonstrating with the free version of AI. Elementary teachers have a different format and prompts below that they can use and refine.

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Three Questions to Center Equity in Your Edtech Procurement

Digital Promise

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. There are several ways to source this information, including surveys, classroom observations and walkthroughs, or the use of third-party tools that aggregate usage data.

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10 Ways to Move Forward: Learning Gaps and Post Pandemic Learning [Free Webinar]

The CoolCatTeacher

Tuesday, April 20 at 7 pm ET join us for the free webinar From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This post will share the ten trends that we’ll be covering and some information on our speakers. What Trauma-Informed Learning Concepts Should Every Teacher Know? She received her M.Ed.

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The Power of I Used to Think…Now I Think

Catlin Tucker

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. They are encouraged to think about what they used to believe before they had a deeper understanding or encountered new information. article, video, podcast). This promotes an understanding of ecological relationships.

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