The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring critical real-world skills like financial education, early literacy, character education, health & wellness, and more to your classroom. Thanks to partners, these lessons are FREE for all K-12 schools and students.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

A manifesto for effective classroom collaboration. Having many collaboration issues is not the standard for all classrooms. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning. When done right, learning as a team works. Grade team assignments.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Behind the Headlines: News and Media Teaching Ideas The Guardian Foundation offers this collection of educational resources "for teaching students how the media works and how to write and interpret news, and can be used across the secondary curriculum." What is false information (fake news)? In this short guide, Webwise.ie

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edWeb.net

MARCH 9, 2022

Now that the third school year in a row has been disrupted by COVID-19, many students are struggling with academics and other issues that make it difficult for them to focus fully and enthusiastically on learning in the classroom. During a recent edLeader Panel , district administrators from across the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Well, at least in the classroom. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment. The classroom is a wiki.

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iLearn Technology

MAY 8, 2017

How to integrate Check 123 into your classroom: Check123 is a great place for students to begin their research. Check123 is a great one to keep bookmarked on classroom and library computers for quick reference. With Check123, they are sure to get some quality results back to kick start their learning and research.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Prior to landing her librarian dream job, she was both a secondary and primary classroom teacher. She also hosts the Bulldog Reader blog and writes about books, lessons, technology and all things library. Julie Hembree is a teacher-librarian at Cougar Ridge Elementary School near Seattle, WA. This is her 29th year of teaching.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. My LJ TOC update. Current awareness is now an end-user activity.

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Reading By Example

MARCH 30, 2019

Definitely a book to have in the secondary classroom library to build diversity and cultural relevance. For example, I am taking an instructional coaching course, and the teachers often reference Frankl’s memoir as an example of self-actualization. John (writing reference).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

David Simpson ([link] will discuss the use of facebook and other social networking sites in education and the need for/issues around digital citizenship education in Secondary schools. Come join Tina and Barbara, of LiveBinders, and Dean Mantz as we talk learning in the 21st Century classroom. link] CLASSROOM 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. Related: Column Bright black students taught by black teachers are more likely to get into gifted-and-talented classrooms.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” Generation Teach : gives college and college-bound students summer teaching fellowships with the hope that they develop skills for success in the classroom and pursue teaching careers in Denver.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Some weren’t aware their kids could get a free device or, if they had a device, didn’t understand how to log on to Google Classroom or use Zoom.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Let’s see if 2016 doesn’t see more tv-studio-style classrooms. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post. I’m not referring to the uses of tech in sports, but funding. Even academics.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education. One person thought shifting tertiary school content down to secondary could help reduce adjunctification, by (I think) reducing teaching hours in colleges. For example , Kristin Vogel : “Libraries ally, champion and offer expertise on this very value.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Saturday, March 22nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show with Erin Klein , Classroom 2.0 Classroom 2.0 Learn more here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Can I show a video from Netflix in my classroom? As educators, we use a variety of resources in our classroom to enhance a lesson. Since copyrighted works are protected, they often require special permission or licensing for use with groups, including classrooms. When viewed in a classroom or other place of instruction.

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Digital Citizenship Sony Guidelines Video 167

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

billion on elementary and secondary education. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. “We We cannot teach 21st-century learners in the 20th-century classroom,” he said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Take a look at the PBL tools & resources on Defined Learning with an online library of engaging hands-on projects, inspiring career-focused videos, research resources & more to help you create deeper learning opportunities for your students. The first book I coauthored with a with another person, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I will structure this post similarly to the aforementioned article with suggestions for action and research embedded for each group so that you could, feasibly, only read the section referring to you and be enabled to face your context. Maybe you think removing upsetting books from school libraries is the best thing for your child.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 20, 2015

But on her first day, she says, “my mentor teacher, she came in, we talked for a few minutes, and she was like, ‘OK, I’ll be in the library from now on.’ The classroom teacher, Cortney Kosmala-Jackson, is on the right. And that happens in classrooms all the time,” he says. And just like that, I was by myself.

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Training Elementary Secondary Analysis 28

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

Well, at least in the classroom. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’ environment. The classroom is a wiki.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The primary goals of this event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources, projects, and networks that are available to educators today.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

Well, at least in the classroom. Summer PD is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-8 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Flipped Classroom—attendees learn in a ‘flipped classroom’. The classroom is a wiki. You want to be part of it.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 15, 2018

But, don’t confuse deconstructing the room with closing out your classroom. Avoid the trap of closing up your classroom library, centers, packing up textbooks, and so on a full month in advance. Then on the second-to-last day of school, turn your full attention to overseeing classroom deconstruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 15, 2018

But, don’t confuse deconstructing the room with closing out your classroom. Avoid the trap of closing up your classroom library, centers, packing up textbooks, and so on a full month in advance. Then on the second-to-last day of school, turn your full attention to overseeing classroom deconstruction.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. But wait, there’s more! .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

This works for the “average” reader, but teachers know that classrooms do not merely comprise grade-level readers. While I would personally say the task of curating a classroom library has been easier as a 2nd-grade teacher, I still have students spanning kindergarten-4th grade reading levels. I love my classroom library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!),

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

Open educational resources” (OER) here refers to the many free learning resources now populating the Worldwide Web. One other important new piece of information for me was the MIT Blossoms program, which provides OER science and mathematics education for secondary students. My take-away message to the audience: Visit the IOCS website.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. Some professors apparently like this idea of surveilling their classrooms very much.).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The standards refer to the “indelible stain” of slavery and require that in fourth grade students be taught that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, along with secondary factors. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like? In fact, these are the conversations they want to have.

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Policies Outcomes Elementary Study 74

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

In Alabama, it hits even closer to home for Norrell, whose Alabama history books were taught in classrooms up until the early 2000s, when he said he no longer had the energy to fight conservative groups opposed to his accounts of slavery and Jim Crow. A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The Flipped Classroom". WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds.

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