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Giving Students a Safe Way to Ask for Help

Gaggle Speaks

But with 45,000 students across 55 neighborhood elementary schools, 16 secondary schools, two alternative schools, and 16 charter schools, the district was concerned with how they would be able to monitor any inappropriate activity. Students using the system to purposefully alert adults of possible situations. That’s just smart.”.

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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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One Teacher’s Year Inside the World’s Largest Library

Edsurge

The Teacher-in-Residence program is about 20 years old, and it invites one U.S. This interview was conducted at the library back in February, before the COVID-19 outbreak restricted in-person meetings, and when it was still conceivable to think and talk about things other than the global pandemic. Know anyone who might be a good fit?

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

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Benefits of outdoor learning: A new study released a few months ago from Finland shows that kids who go to forest daycares (or outdoor daycares) have improved immune systems, with increased T-cells and other important immune markers in their blood in just within 28 days. Case Study #1: Jain, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas.

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To solve for ALL kids, start with ONE…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

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. There’s something powerful about knowing that even if you can’t solve every problem for every student, you CAN help solve THIS thing for THAT kid.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

There were about 40 of us. thank you Pam Moran for this question!) – Establishing our rules of play and group norms – Quick reactions to my TEDxDesMoines talk about extracurricular learning v. both positive and negative) – Organizational self-assessment – Getting set up with our new Google+ community.

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

In this edWebinar, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Social Studies team, made up of regional and district leaders, describe how their virtual learning communities on edWeb.net helped them support educators, and their students and parents, during a time of crisis. We had online gatherings of teachers, and we picked their brains.