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Announcing the Jeffco 11 educational leadership blog

Dangerously Irrelevant

Our 11th University of Colorado Denver principal licensure cohort for the Jeffco Public Schools is 31 students strong! We’re off to an amazing start. Starting this week, we are sharing resources and blogging about educational leadership issues in addition to our class sessions. Our first three posts involve school vision and mission statements: How do we avoid jargon when writing vision and mission statements?

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10 Ways Data Can Sabotage Your Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

10 Ways Data Can Sabotage Your Teaching by Terry Heick For professional development around developing data and assessment, contact us today. Functionally, the purpose of assessment is to provide data to revise planned instruction. In seeing what a student understands, the best path for moving forward towards mastery can be planned based on those results—the “data,” […].

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The Real Way to Avoid Hearing from the Same 26 Facebook Friends

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators are generally good fact checkers and don't fall for chain social posts like the one making its rounds about seeing the same 26 people on Facebook. They know to verify and that even a basic search on The Google will help you find out if what you are reading is fact or fake. A reason so many people were quick to believe "the same 26 people" story is because Facebook does have an algorithm that limits the posts you see.

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Ideas to Integrate Poetry Throughout the Year

MiddleWeb

Megan Kelly always intends to integrate poetry across her units, but somehow ends up scrambling each year as National Poetry Month approaches. This fall she has a list of activities to hold herself accountable. Try some of her ideas in your own ELA, history, science or math classes.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Pre-designed Formative Assessment Templates for Teachers (Google Slides)

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In yesterday’s post we talked about Flipgrid and explained how you can use it to formatively assess students using video-based activities. Today, we are sharing with you another excellent tool for.

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The Importance of Curiosity and Challenge in Education

The Principal of Change

In the book, “The Power of Why” by Amanda Lang , two quotes on the importance of curiosity in education had stuck out to me: In an educational system in which productivity is measured by hours logged per task, number of worksheets completed and scores on standardized tests, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to prompt kids to ask more questions unless the questions are about what’s going to be on the test.

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Back To School with Bitmoji

The Daring Librarian

I swear to you dear reader, I am NOT a paid spokesperson for Bitmoji! In fact, they haven't even answered, commented, acknowledged, or even liked ANY of my Tweets or Instagram where I've mentioned them. I am just a total fangirl. A lonely little neglected ignored (by them!) fangirl. Wow, that sounded a little pathetic & needy. Truth hurts. But here I am again sharing something NEW that Bitmoji has brought out that I think is pretty cool.

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Informative and Useful Tech and Teaching Content from Across the Web, w/e 09-01-18

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … heard of micro-schools? [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Who Should Facilitate Professional Learning?

A Principal's Reflections

Have you ever paid money to go and watch a professional sporting event, play, or musical? Your answer is probably a resounding yes. If you are like me, then you have gone too many times to count and have lost track. What drives you to spend money and attend these events? More than likely you go to watch the athletes compete or artists perform. In some cases, you participated in these activities at a certain level during your lifetime.

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Ask me anything: Quick answers to 12 teacher questions

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: I’m answering 12 teacher questions and dishing out advice on time management, classroom management, and more just in time for back-to-school season. I’m excited to try this new episode format for my Truth for Teachers podcast, because I get a lot of questions from teachers which I haven’t been able to answer up until now.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.