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Health and Wellness Choice Boards for Teachers and Students

Catlin Tucker

On Saturday, I wrote a blog sharing an offline choice board teachers can use to blend offline activities into their online classes. One board for teachers, one for secondary students, and another for elementary students and their parents. Well-being Board for Elementary Students & Their Parents. well-beingboardTs.

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Put your outside helpers to work

Dangerously Irrelevant

Workshop 3 (elementary teachers / instructional coaches) = redesigning elementary lessons for deeper learning. Workshop 4 (secondary teachers / instructional coaches) = redesigning secondary lessons for deeper learning. Workshop 2 (leadership teams) = leadership challenges related to deeper learning.

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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. Historical Debates: Students could make claims about historical interpretations, provide evidence from primary and secondary sources, and ask questions about different historical perspectives.

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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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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We took our school from a physical school on a Friday to a distance learning campus by Monday. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Morningside College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the University of South Dakota.

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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. Each week, I send out a newsletter with information and resources and templates that are referenced in my blog. You can copy and modify these to use with students online or offline.

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Getting the Brain Ready to Learn Math

The CoolCatTeacher

Liesl McConchie talks about how the brain learns math From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The post Getting the Brain Ready to Learn Math appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Is their brain in a ready state?

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