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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Starr Sackstein, author of Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students’ Social and Emotional Needs , shares an overview of what is needed so that every student feels respected even as they are given the necessary feedback to improve and level up their learning. (You

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Our Doors Are Always Open

A Principal's Reflections

Today I had the opportunity to meet with Eric Sheninger before he headed off to the 2013 NASSP Conference. Reflecting on this experience it is important to see how at my school district, we must establish specific goals that we intend to achieve by initiating a BYOD program at Valhalla Middle High School.

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Teacher's Top Five: Rachelle Wooten's Versatile Tools for BYOD and the 4 Cs

Graphite Blog

My focus is on finding the best tool to meet the needs of the task. We do just about everything with Edmodo since many of our campuses are BYOD, and Edmodo is available on platforms. We encourage BYOD at many of our secondary campuses, so that's important.) Sometimes that involves technology, and other times it doesn't.

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5 Fantastic Peer Feedback Strategies for Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. In speaking engagements, Sackstein speaks about blogging, journalism education, throwing out grades and BYOD, helping people see technology doesn’t have to be feared. So they’re using the protocol to meet the expectation.

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MobyMax: Tablet + help differentiating instruction

iLearn Technology

Really helpful when you are working to meet the needs of a lot of different students! The feedback you get is fantastic and auto-magically adjusts to meet each individuals needs for practice and support. Many of you don’t have that luxury, MobyMax would be a fantastic solution in a lot of ways!

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Klein, Global Education Consultant and Speaker Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners - Akevy Greenblatt The A-Z Administrators Guide to Evernote - Jeffrey Bradbury 5:00pm (ACSA) The Ignored Curriculum - Vicente Bravo & Maria Hwang de Bravo Building Online Departmental Community Through Leadership - Barbara c.g.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Mobile : as humanity continues to migrate ever-increasing swathes of life into handhelds, educators slowly follow suit.

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