The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How about on social media? Last summer I took my professional development with Advancement Courses and I am so glad that I did! On my blog, I recently shared 10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer. Click Here.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Since only snippets of my responses were embedded into the piece I wanted to share the specific questions that were asked and my thoughts on each.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. The Edutopia resource shares ideas to implement for teachers who are working on building their confidence.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In a district full of teachers and administrators, there may only be one coach (the case in my district) and conveying your role and responsibilities to teachers and administrators may often prove challenging. So…how does a coach do it? Guest Post by Jess Brittingham ( @ELA2TISJess ) and Jen Thomas ( @BlendedLibGirl ).

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Project-based learning , as we have often examined in this blog, is a powerful way to not only impart information, by exploration, but has the added advantage of stimulating and developing a range of other skills and habits such as communication, creativity, curiosity, confidence and collaboration. 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast With the national teacher shortage crisis looming over districts, retaining teachers has become a pressing issue. As a leader, it’s hard to overemphasize the importance of developing your team’s winning mindset.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2021

For consultations and presentations at schools across the country I have developed these 15 questions you may want to ask as you develop or assess STEM possibilities for students. Also, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email, and join me on twitter at mjgormans .

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn Fuini-Hetten on episode 259 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Strategic planning for your school or district can take a variety of forms. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Explain how “disposition” fit into this.

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Tom Murray

MAY 14, 2017

School leaders begin to make their plans for the summer months; from professional learning days to administrative PLCs. To prepare for the upcoming summer, I wanted to share eight books that I’ve recently reviewed or read for my own personal growth. And how can you join their ranks? In their work leading up to Start.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. This year, Digital Promise has proposed a record 15 (!)

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2023

The following Q&A aims to help EdTechTeacher readers understand Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT in context and outline how they are impacting education. Machine Learning is a subset of Artificial Intelligence and denotes how machines “learn” by embarking on a series of trial-and-error processes to determine how they can improve.

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 12, 2014

Graphic by marsmet451 used with permission under a Creative Commons license In recent months I''ve gotten into several conversations with fellow educators about blogging. One of the statements I often hear in these conversations is, "I''d love to start blogging, but I''m not sure what to write about." Not so fast!

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

From the desks in our classrooms we can travel to far off places and talk to friends via Skype or share thoughts through blogs or experience historic sites like never before with virtual reality. We can code new apps or design new objects on 3D printers. And there is a shift (albeit small) in professional learning as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Kristen Mattson on episode 242 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Kristen Mattson, author of Digital Citizenship in Action talks about how they’ve integrated digital citizenship into all of their courses at her school and how you can too.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. More on this below.). The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2012

One of my goals when I present on leadership, change, and transformation is to inspire other school leaders to begin to blog. I remember years ago my initial hesitation to blog until Ken Royal encouraged me to submit a guest post on his blog at the time almost three years ago.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2017

These posts will take us through Twitter chats and how you can participate in real time or whenever you want. Next we will examine some ideas on how to get the most out of any conference you attend this summer or beyond. We will then move to some non-educational books that you can use to grow as a learner and a professional.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

This blog was originally posted on the Future Ready website at [link]. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Andy Marcinek , Chief Open Education Advisor at the US Department of Education (ED), to explore how schools can benefit from Open Educational Resources (OERs) and what is being done in this area nationwide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Robb has written more than 25 books on reading but also takes 3-4 months each school year as a classroom teacher. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 29, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast For the last decade, school districts have been struggling with teacher attrition rates, as the average “burnout” rate for incoming teachers has been approximately five to seven years. However, this diversity has not followed through to the top levels.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 14, 2017

Episode 126 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Listen on iTunes. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. Sponsor: Owl Eyes.

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wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Blogging is a fabulous way to connect with an authentic audience. Like everything else, there is a transition process for learning how. Some rights reserved by T Hall Foundations for Blogging Houses need a sturdy foundation to remain standing. They will learn most of this in the context of blogging. End with a question.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

AUGUST 23, 2016

It felt like my on-air work should have been enough to evaluate my performance. But even though my output was public in the stories I wrote, produced and voiced, I still had a yearly sit-down with my manager. On a scale of 1-10…) and I knew what I did like (talking about how things are going). Now I’m the manager.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

Jeff Bradbury on episode 267 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jeff Bradbury, IT Coach and Podcaster at the Teachercast Network and I talk about education podcasting and how it all works. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

How Much Do Teachers Make in the USA? is the topic of our blog post today! In the diverse educational landscape of the United States, the question of “how much do teachers make in the USA?” ” is a frequent and fundamental one. How Much Do Teachers Make in the USA?

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

How are the children?” That’s how Dr. Baron R. Davis, Superintendent of Richland School District Two (SC), starts every meeting. That philosophy is also reflected in his district’s emphasis on viewing education through a social justice lens. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

This reporter’s most recent visit to the library led down into the basement, past a room where scenes from the movie National Treasure were filmed and into a recording studio, for a conversation with Jen Reidel , this year’s Teacher-in-Residence at the Library of Congress and this week’s guest on the EdSurge Podcast.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JULY 28, 2021

There is no greater collective-sigh-inducing topic among teachers than professional development. Anyone who has spent any time in the classroom can create a list of this could have been an email meeting or I wish I were spending time in my classroom right now professional development trainings. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

This story also appeared in The Undefeated. “I In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. . … I have been navigating majority (or all-) white spaces for a very long time. …

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Buncee

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Buncee Ambassador Program is a professional learning network made up of teachers who love, support and use Buncee! We count on them for their great ideas and for their spirit of sharing, and we do our best to facilitate great conversations and experiences that benefit the whole group. Get personalized support from the Buncee team.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. More on this below.). The second conflict-of-interest related news story (set of stories, really) involves New America and Google/ Eric Schmidt.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Research on instructional coaching shows that when defined, understood, and implemented as a principal-coach-teacher partnership, teacher coaching programs can be more effective. I think it’s important to have the principal share the ‘why’ behind coaching to help with buy-in,” one DLP coach said. “I

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

Should an urban district pander to white, middle-class families — at the expense of poor, minority families — in order to boost the achievement of all schools? While the district provides an alternative school for struggling students, the teachers rule it out immediately; it’s known as a flat-out school-to-prison pipeline.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 20, 2018

In order to personalize professional learning for your teachers, one of the first things to do is assess the skills of staff members. How you design your survey can play an important role in how your teachers will respond to the survey, as well as the type of information you will be able to assess.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

That was the case for four teachers featured on this week’s episode of Teachable Moments, a four-part series about why teachers teach. You can find part one here.) Listen below, or subscribe to the EdSurge On Air podcast on your favorite podcast app like iTunes or Spotify. And it crushed him. And there he thrived.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 13, 2020

In this guest post by Pam Hubler, she shares how she developed and implemented Google Challenges to deliver Virtual PD at her school. Virtual PD, or virtual professional learning, is more than just making things digital. AND, I will be sharing some new professional learning options myself, and here on Shake Up Learning.

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