The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 28, 2021

How can we make social-emotional learning (SEL) more than a buzzword? Dr. Byron McClure is here to go beyond what’s trendy, and give an honest overview of the mental health and socio-emotional support students really need from us right now. I think you’ll find Byron’s energy is contagious. Recap/Big Ideas.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 9, 2021

There’s a lot of talk right now about the teacher shortage crisis and the teacher attrition crisis. Strong administrative leadership can make a massive difference in retaining teachers, and therefore, a massive difference in ensuring students have caring, effective, engaging instruction.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 8, 2018

One of the toughest parts of teaching students who enter our classrooms with a lot of personal and behavioral issues is that feeling of helplessness that comes from working with them. You might feel that there is nothing you can do to reach that student, or that you have no control over the situation at all. Want to listen instead of read?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

DECEMBER 4, 2016

We’re about to head into the time of year when everyone’s thinking about resolutions, new habits, getting healthier, and making better choices. And most of this just turns out to be wishful thinking. I just don’t want to do that right now. The truth is that you can form new habits in just a day or two.

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techieMusings

AUGUST 16, 2018

Part of that might be due to the fact that, last school year, as much of an effort I made to improve productivity and practice self-care, I just did not do a great job implementing and sticking to boundaries. If you’re just curious what I read in the fiction category, scroll down to the very end of this very long post.).

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

AJ does some incredible work, and I love his blog, and this is a great way to dive deeper into Project Based Learning. I didn’t believe that giving students sample test questions would make them do any better on our state standardized scores (and still don’t). I was not doing test prep. And guess what?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Soraya has this fascinating way of illuminating patterns and connecting the dots between all the little things that you know aren’t quite right and don’t make sense, and tying them together so you can see the big picture. . That it will twist our faces, make us ugly. We have since spent hours dissecting this book together.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." House committee this week becomes law.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” Mercurial rules are causing instructors to jump ship.” Priorities. Inside Higher Ed looks at the potential declines in enrollment in British universities. Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Via Education Week : “Trump Moves to Fill Key Civil Rights Post.” Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, who if confirmed would become the assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ DeVry Parent Company Makes Pledges to Students.” Department of Education.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Just about everyone has access to an online platform that is fairly unvetted: basically, anyone with access to Wi-Fi has the ability to go online and spread ideas, true or not. Do you think that that is a bigger, more dangerous issue, or do you think that that’s just fearmongering or hype?

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