A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 11, 2019
I remember like it was yesterday when I began blogging back in 2009. To think that I would still be writing a post a week many years later is a vast understatement, coming from someone who had every excuse not to start in the first place. Trust when I say that it’s a struggle these days to either come up with new ideas or to add a unique angle to what has already been written.
The Jose Vilson
AUGUST 11, 2019
Recently, Gloria Ladson-Billings was asked whether the interpretation of her works has changed, to which she quipped: “I think that people don’t actually read the work.” In the last few years, people have interpreted culturally responsive education through mostly singular dimensions: implicit bias, diversity trainings, or recruitment and retention of staff and curriculum, all valid.
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TeachThought - Learn better.
AUGUST 11, 2019
8 Sneaky But Effective Simple School-Improvement Strategies by Terry Heick Education reform is tricky. For one, so many teachers are wary of change. Not improvement, mind you, but change for the sake of change–shifting from one program or “research-based strategy” to another, endlessly. Year after year. So many trends in learning are simply repackaged approaches […].
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 11, 2019
Here are some great resources where you can access and share educational video content. These are websites and YouTube channels that provide mind-illuminating content covering a wide spectrum of.
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MiddleWeb
AUGUST 11, 2019
Over a career of teaching, mentoring and networking with novices, Barbara Blackburn has learned five key lessons about being a new teacher. Here she takes the butterflies churning in newbies’ insides and suggests ways to line them up in formation for a strong first year.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 11, 2019
In today's post, we are sharing with you 5 excellent Chrome extensions you can use to clip and save web content right into any of the popular cloud storage platforms you use. In this way you will be.
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The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 11, 2019
Amanda Guest works with teenage art enthusiasts who are a part of ArtsConnection. T he organization provides students with engaging and authentic art experiences such as exhibiting their work in fancy New York City offices. I had the opportunity to meet Amanda's students as they were planning an exhibit to be displayed where I work. We discussed some ideas for displaying art in a way that is accessible.
MiddleWeb
AUGUST 11, 2019
Teachers at Pioneer Middle School were weary of their traditional one-size-fits-all summer school requiring every student to take the same classes. Learn how they’ve redesigned the program for eighth graders around specific skills that better prepare them for high school.
Nick's Picks for Educational Technology
AUGUST 11, 2019
1 Second Everyday: Video Diary Imagine an engaging 3-minute video that captures every day of the upcoming school year. Now imagine an app that makes it easy to create such a video with minimal effort and no video editing. Even better, the app is free: 1 Second Everyday for iOS and Android. Select Your Moments. Read more. The post The Easiest Way to Create a Video Diary of the Upcoming School Year appeared first on Nick's Picks For Educational Technology.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
AUGUST 11, 2019
This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Jen Bengel explains the workshop model, how to create mini-lessons, and how to get students excited about books. My guest today is my good friend Jen Bengel, the owner and creator of Out of This World Literacy. She spent 10 years in public schools as an elementary teacher and a literacy coach and has spent the last 7 years as a full-time curriculum developer and professional developer.
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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2019
Taylor Correia-Podolske’s great-grandmother has Alzheimer’s, and the high-school junior was concerned about the isolation that her beloved relative and others like her suffer. After Correia-Podolske learned that musical memory was often intact even when other memory was gone, she decided to construct a senior-year project identifying a community need and proposing a way to address that need artistically.
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