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Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home

The CoolCatTeacher

Join this free online event to help discover how virtual volunteering can help your students build SEL skills. Roeser) published by Springer Press in 2016 titled “Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating Theory and Research Into Practice.” All content and opinions are my own and that of the guest.

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The History of the School Bell

Hack Education

It should come as no surprise to close observers of invented histories of education that Gatto would have something to say (in almost all his books, in fact) about the tyranny of the bell. Many institutions — not only schools and not only factories — have long used bells to mark beginnings and endings and important events. " (1).

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Laser Cutters in the Classroom

Kathy Schrock

THE FLUX BEAMO FLUX , a CO2 laser cutter/engraver company, asked me to take one of their models for a spin and find resources to support their use in the K-12 environment. The FLUX Beamo CO2 Laser Cutter & Engraver ($1899), seen below, is compact and has many of the features of the more expensive cutters on the market.

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Girl Scouts against the world

The Hechinger Report

The seeds for the organization were planted more than 100 years ago when a group of British girls showed up at a Boy Scouts event in the U.K. The 1920 handbook presented homemaking as just one option for adulthood, along with working as a nurse or a naturalist or in defense. Rather than include them, the founder of Scouting in the U.K.,

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How Online Book Read-Alouds Can Help Students’ Literacy and Connection During Social Distancing 

MindShift

Since many districts didn’t have a digital learning plan in place for an event like a global pandemic, they are scraping together varied approaches of online learning that are evolving as the situation changes. Most publishers are now granting access to educators, as long as they follow a few rules that vary among publishers.

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Migrating to Cloud-Based Online Tool Suites Is a No-Brainer for School Districts

The 21st Century Principal

Also, it has meant being able to collaborate online in the creation of other documents like school improvement plans and handbooks. Online tool suites like Google Apps offer users an increasingly wide variety of tools highly suited for education organizations. Sharing documents without attachments has also been greatly simplified.

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Literacies for the digital age: Financial literacy

Kathy Schrock

This post originally appeared in September of 2014 on my Discovery Educator Network blog, Kathy''s Katch , where I pen a monthly blog post. If the education system were to provide some financial literacy classes for kids, it could make a tremendous difference in the economic success of society”.