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Bring back joy by teaching outdoors: A how-to guide

The Cornerstone for Teachers

On the other hand, Alisa, an elementary school teacher from Massachusetts, says that building outdoor learning spaces in her school lead to a stronger community as everyone came together to make it happen for the kids. Case Study #1: Jain, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas. Want to listen instead of read?

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7 Ideas for Student Genius Hour and Passion Projects

The CoolCatTeacher

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. From there, students have been using time in class, and we’ve also partnered up with our media specialist. It’s really happening organically.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For instance, in her study titled “ Adaptive Teaching: Reflective Practice of Two Elementary Teachers’ Visions and Adaptations During Literacy Instruction “, Vaughn (2014) examines how two elementary teachers adapt their teaching methods in response to their students’ needs during literacy instruction.

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How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 794 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations Dr. Liz Kolb, clinical associate professor of education technologies at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Instructional design and how students learn is most important. Thank you TARA for sponsoring this show! Click Here.

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A rural Montana district goes all in on makerspaces

The Hechinger Report

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. Teachers who already knew how to use Google tools sharpened their skills and those who had never opened certain programs like Google Sheets received introductory lessons.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

both positive and negative) – Organizational self-assessment – Getting set up with our new Google+ community. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

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To solve for ALL kids, start with ONE…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

In this article and Truth for Teachers podcast episode, I’ll share how often the solution to big problems is solving smaller ones. You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates.

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