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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content.

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How can we ease tensions around book choice and school libraries?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is what I imagine “Book Choice” looks like, from curricular choices to which books grace the shelves of our classrooms. This tension comes from students, parents, teachers, and administration/leaders outside of the classroom. Students want to see themselves in stories. The rubber band pulls tight.

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Architect Dynamic Blended Learning Lessons with Your Adopted Curriculum

Catlin Tucker

While initially, it’s beneficial to have a clear roadmap to follow when implementing a new curriculum; as teachers gain confidence using it, they will desire to exercise their creativity to tailor the learning experience to the unique needs of their students. A similar truth applies to the adopted curriculum many teachers use.

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Tailoring AI for Education: A Comparative Look at ChatGPT’s GPT Builder and Poe’s Create Bot

Dr. Shannon Doak

On Poe.com, the process of creating a bot is an engaging exercise in precision and creativity when crafting the prompts to guide the Large Language Model you have chosen. Similarly, being able to prompt the translation bot for our ELL teachers, on Poe was a streamlined process that yielded immediate benefits in the classroom.

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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

Edsurge

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Yet despite my success using reenactments and roleplaying, students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Most instructors who’ve never taught online can find live video to be a closer analog to their classroom practice than asynchronous tools. The pedagogical dimension – the whole point of the exercise!

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It’s NOT About Google (Part 2) – SULS045

Shake Up Learning

Ready to move the learning in your classroom from static, one-and-done activities, to more dynamic learning—Dynamic Learning with G Suite? BONUS : Get the Dynamic Learning with Google Toolkit to help you find the best tool to support Dynamic Learning in your classroom. We all have stories to tell in the classroom.

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