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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

Many institutions — not only schools and not only factories — have long used bells to mark beginnings and endings and important events. " The Sage Handbook of Educational Leadership , 2011. And that includes the school bell. 1) John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction , 2009. " (1838).

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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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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. Google calendar with its sharing feature makes scheduling school and district events much easier. It just makes sense to allow a larger company who make it their business to keep data secure and store it.

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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. Publishing company Penguin Kids is providing a “live story time read-aloud” every week day at 11 am EST on their Instagram page. .

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Literacies for the digital age: Financial literacy

Kathy Schrock

It includes the ability to discern financial choices, discuss money and financial issues without (or despite) discomfort, plan for the future and respond competently to life events that affect everyday financial decisions, including events in the general economy”.