The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. Every STEM educator should take a look at these resources and integrate them into their blended or online learning environment. How can we ensure STEM is more than just a buzzword?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As a teacher committed to improving teaching and improving our professional development, I'm thrilled to share this conversation about how professional development can and is improving. Subscribe to the Show Anywhere You Listen to Podcasts This week's sponsor Modern Classrooms will help you teach better today!

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unsurprisingly, fully understanding your students’ and teachers’ needs means engaging with them to identify the authentic and fundamental challenges they’re experiencing in the classroom. Ask about the learning sciences research used to design and build edtech products. Be specific about how the edtech tool was implemented.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When I think about how to effectively empower educators to create personalized professional learning for themselves, I often think of Google’s “20% time”, where employees had 20% of their own time to move forward Google as an organization. This empowers them to be more creative and innovative.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? Working together over the course of the year, we—at Torah Academy and Kiddom—together learned three powerful lessons about how to deliver personalized support to educators: 1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Gale, a Cengage company, is helping educators enhance skills for virtual lesson planning and online teaching. Now teachers can take control of their own professional learning and find support as they work to use For Educators to drive student learning outcomes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much? Use should be appropriate, tied to classroom content areas, and guided.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 17, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Teachers face many challenges in the classroom, with one of the biggest being how to work with students with IEPs and disabilities. Louis County (MO), discussed how systems can oppress people and need to change. Students need voices in classrooms and chances to interact.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Geo-inquiry expert Jim Bentley (author of the free National Geographic Geo-Inquiry Educator Guide ) talks about what this project-based learning method looks like in his fifth-grade classroom. How to Deepen Student Learning Using PBL and the QFT (on Right Question Blog). Contributor to Handbook of Prosocial Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 8, 2019

Sherry is a highly regarded national speaker and consultant, providing educational agencies with expertise in the areas of instructional leadership, effective classroom practices, classroom walkthroughs, effective use of data and guidance on how to create structures for successful classroom coaching.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

The companies will continue to work together with educators and administrators, industry partners, and communities to reengineer education into a high-impact sector that solves society’s biggest challenges. About MindSpark Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I didn’t have the technical know-how to code the site, but as an instructional coach and leader of my school’s behavior support team, I did have experience building efficient operations and logistics. We incorporated our company in Delaware, held meetings as a board and divvied up shares. I began treating my classroom like a startup.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready. Learn How 2.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

He also shares how flexible seating should go with more student voice and choice in their learning. Prepare to have your mind shift about how we sit in classrooms today! Getting Rid of Cemetery Style Steating in the Classroom with Bill Selak. VICKI: Happy Wonderful Classroom Wednesday.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2019

This program not only helps her preservice teachers learn while doing authentic work, but it helps teachers get help for their classrooms. For over 30 years, Advancement Courses has been a leader in professional development, providing expertly-crafted, classroom-applicable courses to thousands of teachers across the country.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Courses about Student Mental Health Strategies for Addressing Student Anxiety With the strategies and interventions you learn in this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment where students can successfully cope with stressors and instead focus on learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? We’re doing a lot of work around helping teachers to understand the different processes and what they need to do if they want to bring something into their classroom.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

With the Norton resources created in partnership with Discovery Education, students will learn how to best conduct themselves in the digital environment.” Available on the Discovery Education K-12 platform , My Digital Life Center offers a centralized location for educators and students to learn and engage with digital citizenship.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2022

Jillian DuBois talks about her end of the school year and from the conversation we have twelve inspiring ideas for classrooms everywhere including: How to Use the element of surprise in learning. How Eagles Fly Higher on Turbulent Winds. How to know children even in a very large class. Word "Collection" Ideas.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 10, 2022

Yet when children come to school, the expectation is that they will automatically understand that they need to read, write, and speak in the academic English of the classroom. What educators need to understand is that the student has learned how to communicate in English, just not necessarily in the format used in school.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast As the demand for STEM skills grows, so too does the question of if and why we need it in the classroom. Valenzuela explained that project-based learning+ (PBL+) got its name from how it encourages students to focus on life skills, in addition to academics and STEM.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

If we don’t empower educators by providing support, skills and relevant, job-embedded professional learning, we risk that too few teachers will join and remain in the profession. Focus on Pathway to Learning Instead of Right and Wrong Answers How do we measure the effectiveness of improving achievement and closing learning gaps?

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2017

Who is participating the most in professional learning webinars? They hosted 260 professional learning webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Thirty eight webinars (15%) were on early learning topics and had 45,000 (27%) of the viewers. About Our Sponsors.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 11, 2017

Show Sponsor: PowerSchool This summer, PowerSchool announced the Unified Classroom. The Unified Classroom brings together the teacher’s grade book, learning management system, student information system, and assessment in one powerful platform with just one log in. Learn about the Unified Classroom. Listen Now.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2024

Buyer beware: Many companies market books as “decodable,” but without alignment with your curriculum’s phonics scope and sequence, it’s unlikely the text is decodable for your students. Support teachers with time for professional learning. To help students become truly fluent readers, we need to consider how we teach reading.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2023

Learning technology company HMH announced that it has completed its acquisition of assets from research and educational services organization NWEA. This will enable them to better understand how students are growing academically and how to maximize that growth with content specific recommendations that advance student learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2023

Career Profiles Grades 6-8 Better Health in Action – a program created in partnership with global biopharmaceutical company Takeda – empowers the next generation of health leaders to learn about the urgent widespread issue of health equity. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Lincolnshire, IL & Boise, ID – 95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, today announced the acquisition of Morpheme Magic, a company founded by Deborah R. Glaser, Ed.D., to help learners build morphological awareness.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Barbara Bray talks about personalizing learning in the classroom. She teaches us strategies and helps us think about how to make our classrooms better. Vicki: Well, what happens when a teacher says I’m scripted, I can’t put my passion into the classroom. How to connect and go off script safely.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

When classrooms and conference rooms abruptly moved online three years ago, we all experienced moments of technical frustration. We’ve even seen instances where mobility-restricted students struggle in classrooms where power cords are dangling from desks to outlets. How else does Qualcomm address the digital divide among students?

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Lewis recently presented a webinar on how to partner with a high-dosage tutoring provider to launch an effective summer school program. About Carnegie Learning, Inc. Carnegie Learning is the leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We didn’t go in and say, ‘Let’s take the state practice math test to find out how to use the tools.’ About Carnegie Learning, Inc. Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions. We just went in, and the kids were fine.”

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 28, 2017

I used to be a tenured general education elementary classroom teacher. How did it make you feel to see the students competing here? The company put together a terrific event, and the families were wonderful. If the company holds an event that is opened up to the teachers I hope they all take the time to attend and experience it.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And to help teachers navigate the plethora of materials for the digital classroom, Tanner Higgin, Director of Education Editorial Strategy at Common Sense Education, presented “ 50 Top Edtech Tools for the Classroom.” DIY.org : According to Higgin, this is the best community in youth media and learning products. Free Favorites.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This VFT was created in partnership with The Home Depot® for the program Science Fair Central , a suite of no-cost resources designed to STEAM-power classrooms and homes across the country as students prepare for the careers of tomorrow. Learn more and register your classroom here.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

BOSTON (October 1, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has released its “Educator Perceptions of Teaching and Learning in Fall 2021,” a research brief exploring educators’ expectations for the 2021-2022 academic year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2018

Or maybe they’re happy in their classroom now being a teacher, but all all of them are either attaining or will be looking for jobs this spring. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: You are passionate about mentoring.

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