The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If that isn't bad enough, UNESCO found that more than half of children and adolescents were not even learning worldwide. Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. Frederick Douglass.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can take your professional development courses from Advancement Courses and save 20% by using the code COOL20. Stay tuned at the end of the show to learn more about Advancement Courses. All opinions are my own. BUMPER: 00:32. VICKI: 01:58.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 20, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers need personal professional development. In today’s blog post and podcast episode, we’re sharing five real-world examples of teachers who used their summer to improve their classroom and earn professional development credit.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2017

Many of the existential guides for teaching (such as Habits of Mind , the Socrative Method , and Mindfulness ) promote a student-driven growth mindset as fundamental to successful learning. Either set up a new class or import one from Google Classroom. You add learning objectives, assignments and grading scales. Self check-in.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Habits, templates, and routines are much easier than reinventing the assessment wheel but a tool that results in passionate students committed to lifelong learning gets my attention.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Graphite Blog

JULY 16, 2020

With so much uncertainty about the 2020–2021 school year due to the coronavirus pandemic, one fact remains: The skills and resources that reflective, dedicated teachers need to navigate remote, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments are plentiful -- and ever evolving. " to "20 Ways to Engage Students Virtually."

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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. You won’t win $100,000, but you will walk away with research-supported recommendations for maker ed! Competency-based Learning In Your District.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

Service Learning. Perspective taking’ is an important skill to learn. support claim with clear reasons and relevant evidence, demonstrating understanding of topic. support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic. Write an ebook. Genius Hour.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Alongside that ethos of supporting misfits, the small fund has backed education startups offering ambitious alternatives to traditional schooling. There’s Galileo, an online school for “modern active families who want a self-directed education for their children,” according to its website. Danner has been a prolific investor.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. Perspective taking’ is an important skill to learn. support claim with clear reasons and relevant evidence, demonstrating understanding of topic. Divide into ‘pro’ and ‘con’. Educational Links.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 23, 2022

The “normal” classroom is not one where every 8-year-old is meeting 8-year-old developmental markers, or where every 15 year old has the same reading level. How do you manage a classroom where “average” feels like it’s lost meaning? This is reality. After all, isn’t it only fair if everyone gets the same test?

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on Digital Leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) and Scholastic Achievement Partners (SAP) , kicked off the 2015 Leading Future Learning conference with his keynote on Digital Leadership. They want to be engaged in learning.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

FREE Download) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. If you want to become a Google Certified Educator or Trainer, you need to learn the basics of G Suite for Education. (It I’ve created a Google Doc with the entirety of this blog post. | What You Need to Know! What is G Suite for Education? It will be on the Level 1 exam.)

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. This opens so many doors for teachers, students, and parents to connect, collaborate and learn.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, not all students have access to the support they need to learn how to use social media in a way that's healthy. For Digital Citizenship Week 2020 , we encourage you to try out Social Media TestDrive in your classroom. A module takes 20-25 minutes to complete. Give an example.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

It’s almost 2016, and highly-structured, formal learning environments may have run their course. As blogs and social media exploded in popularity, they have subsequently de-credited major news media in the process. But overall, K-20 learning is about institutions, and this has been true for over a century.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

School leaders discuss their district approaches to Social Emotional Learning. One component of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires school leaders to measure students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) in order to gauge school success. She always begins her meetings with a mindfulness exercise.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 4, 2019

The post 25 Ways to Use Audio in Google Slides Projects appeared first on Shake Up Learning. There are workarounds, but those never really satisfied our needs in the classroom. Credit: G Suite Updates Blog. Looks for a follow-up post with even more options for recording audio to be shared on the blog soon! Reflection.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 17, 2019

There’s a lot of research out there about what it means to be a warm demander, and how that approach helps kids (particularly kids of color) be successful in the classroom. There is no implication here that if you execute this strategy perfectly, all your kids’ disengagement and behavioral and learning issues will disappear.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

We scour the sprawling expo with one aim: to find you the most interesting, potentially useful classroom tools out there. What's special : The idea behind MAP is to give teachers more time to offer individualized instruction and support to students, informed by reports that help identify for teachers what students need to reach proficiency.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

Learn more about my books, printables, and online courses here. I found the K Health app, connected with a doctor for $19, and I had the bottle of $1 generic Zoloft in my hand that evening. (I When I say I’ve spent every day of my adult life thinking about teaching and learning even on vacation, I really mean it. And I did. .

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

We scour the sprawling expo with one aim: to find you the most interesting, potentially useful classroom tools out there. NWEA claims that by using MAP's assessment tool, teachers can condense two weeks of one-on-one assessment work into 20 minutes, freeing up more time to focus on instruction and student growth.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

We scour the sprawling expo with one aim: to find you the most interesting, potentially useful classroom tools out there. NWEA claims that by using MAP's assessment tool, teachers can condense two weeks of one-on-one assessment work into 20 minutes, freeing up more time to focus on instruction and student growth.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2020

Learning business basics, management psychology, and entrepreneurial principles equips them with evergreen business competencies. Deciding on the direction of a career journey begins with recognizing personal preferences. The panelists shared ideas to jump start this self-exploration. Discovering Career Preferences.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

And writing students at every level who are inspired by engaging prompts and able to share, collaborate, and access support and informative texts are happier too. Students are using Google Classroom, BoomWriter, Reach for Reading, and other tools across the curriculum. Coeur d’Alene students engage in learning.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Elbert Hubbard As a second year teacher, I remember being very excited about leading my students to participate in a project-based learning activity. How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom).

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

Jennifer Bergland has written about the companion bill in the House, HB 6, at the TCEA Advocacy blog here and here if you would like more detailed information. It is from all of these perspectives that I am here today to support the passage of SB6 and the resulting institution of an Instructional Materials Allotment. Another 37.8%

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

Video and Infographic From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers are moving from face to face classrooms to online classrooms quickly. Check out their free 3-hour micro course, Launching Online Learning. I had so many people ask for the video.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The post The Best Teacher Tips and Lesson Ideas of 2022 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Here are the BEST Blog Posts and Podcasts of 2022! I have compiled a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts and podcast episodes from 2022. The Top 20 Posts of 2022. Click To Tweet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m going to take a few days this summer to review them with you. Tech coaching/mentoring is available from experts who work with you via email or virtual meetings to prepare lesson plans, teach to standards, integrate tech into core classroom time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 18, 2023

Classroom management strategies is the topic of our blog post today! In the complex world of education, classroom management remains a topic that can always be refined and explored. Today, we’ll be examining an intricate aspect: classroom management strategies. ” This emphasizes positive actions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2015

Nor does she know my organic expectations of students such as the level of independence and self-direction I expect during class. This collection of six stand-alone lesson plans are designed to complete important techie learning tasks, assess existing knowledge, or integrate technology rigor into class inquiry.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast : We’re talking to Doug Fisher about the best practices in distance learning from their book with John Hattie — The Distance Learning Playbook: K-12 Teaching For Engagement and Impact in Any Setting. We didn’t forget how to be teachers. Recap and Big Ideas.

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