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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

Throughout the year they met to develop extensive binders to compile resources related to text complexity as outlined by the Common Core Standards. He also developed his own blog and started a Twitter account for his classes. Jessica also used the time to develop the school’s digital newspaper, The Lance , from scratch.

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PD for Writing Teachers: STEM Workshops, Rockstar Camps, Twitter and More!

Edsurge

We began examining the details of the Common Core State Standards years before their rollout in school districts. Twitter Practically 24/7, people to follow and chats to participate in, free. Twitter is more than political rants or celebrity sightings. Wait, what? I expect you’re doing a double-take. But I’m serious.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the Common Core and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos. All one had to do was read the Twitter stream to deduce this. Detailed statistics are provided to learners and coaches (i.e.

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Top 10 Reasons to Sign Up for Summer Learning with Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

Students engage in face-to-face conversations, asynchronous online discussions, and 140 character Twitter-style interactions. Flipping my Back-to-School Night is also a wonderful way to introduce my students’ parents to the flipped classroom model.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

We experimented with some of the hottest tech tools available for the classroom such as Google Apps, differentiation tools, digital storytelling, visual learning, Twitter, blogs, Common Core and tech, digital citizenship, and formative assessment options. Twitter Chats worked best with larger groups.

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17 Take-aways from Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members picked 60% of daily topics, then they read, tested and experimented. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. Failed and tried again. They were curious. They are life long learners.