A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

In a previous blog post, I wrote about the importance of focusing on the why as it relates to learning. Here is a piece of my thinking that I shared: The why matters more than ever in the context of schools and education. What all one must do is step into the shoes of a student. If he or she does not truly understand why they are learning what is being taught, the chances of improving outcomes and success diminish significantly.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 8, 2018

26 Sentence Stems For Higher-Level Conversation In The Classroom by Terry Heick Note: You can purchase a similar, classroom-ready version of these stems on printable cards, if you find that useful. Meaningful conversation can make learning more personal, immediate, and emotional. During meaningful conversations, students are forced to be accountable for their positions, to listen, to analyze […].

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 8, 2018

How can something as simple as Wait Time have such an incredible impact? It's the difference between a student, especially an ELL, fully being engaged and participating, and a student becoming frustrated and checking out, writes teaching specialist Valentina Gonzalez.

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Teacher Tech

APRIL 8, 2018

Two Tips Sheets for Google Drawing I create all of my stickers and blog post featured images in Google Drawing. It is something I use daily to communicate visually and digitally. I have created two tips sheets to share with some ways to get the most out of Google Drawing. Create a New Google Drawing […]. The post 18 Tips: Google Drawing Tips Sheets appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 8, 2018

Drew Perkins talks with John Ewing, President of Math for America about how they support and grow math and science teachers and how math teaching and learning might be better and much different. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Math for America web site Math for America on Facebook and Twitter Subscribe Listen on: Stitcher Podbean PodcastLand YouTube […].

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2018

The mouse that guides children through ABCmouse , an educational app, is getting help from China’s most recognizable penguin to break into one of the world’s biggest market for English language learning. Tencent —the Chinese internet conglomerate whose mascot is a penguin sporting a red scarf—is partnering with Age of Learning , the creator of the ABCmouse, to launch a new English learning app for the Chinese market.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 8, 2018

You've seen the dramatic posts of friends who are bidding Facebook adieu because Facebook knows too much or it’s too depressing or, on and on. I won't be one of those leaving Facebook, unless something better comes along. That's because I don't have the problems with it that others do and the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. Here's why. Problems I don't have with Facebook Depressing posts Not a problem for me.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

A rally at the state capitol in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo @ Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Press. PHOENIX — Arizona’s education system is in a state of crisis. The state’s schools operate with a funding deficit of over $1 billion each and every year. This inexcusable lack of funding means that teacher salaries are among the lowest in the nation, per-pupil spending is thousands of dollars below the national average , and many of our schools and resources are quite literally crumbling.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 8, 2018

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 … explore nine lessons that. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 8, 2018

I uncovered a helpful feature in Google Forms that I thought was worth sharing. You can change your default preferences! This is very handy for teachers who create a lot of quizzes using Forms. The preference options include: Make questions required by default Set default point value for quiz questions Turn on email collection by default This video is part of my online course "Google Forms for Educators.

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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.

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Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

I was three and a half hours away from home with two teeenagers and my mother in tow. The tire gauge light came on and of course, worry kicked in. I pulled off the highway and pulled into a nearby Stewart's gas station to fill whichever tire it was that needed air. A very nice young woman watched me struggle trying to remember what the air pressure number was for the tire.

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Tech Helpful

APRIL 8, 2018

Change is hard even if the change is exciting. Managing change and introducing new concepts is hard on leaders as well. Finding the balance on when to push and when to coast is a fine science. I like change. I enjoy the process of change. I get bored easily with the status quo. I've found that I enjoy looking at opportunities to do education differently but not for the sake of different- for the sake of solving an issue.

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techlearning

APRIL 8, 2018

Today, Microsoft announced a partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), which has piloted the use of Microsoft Translator language technology to help students who are deaf and hard of hearing feel more engaged by transcribing lectures in real time. [ Adapting to the New Classroom ] RIT is home to one of the largest academic programs for its deaf and hard of hearing community (roughly 10 percent of its 15,000 enrolled students) and employs the largest staff of interpreters and

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 8, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast, I talked to educators about the school-to-prison pipeline and how restorative justice in the classroom (which starts with you) can change the trajectory of a child’s life. One of the toughest parts of teaching students who enter our classrooms with a lot of personal and behavioral issues is that feeling of helplessness that comes from working with them.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. The April issue’s theme was “Nontraditional learning.” Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 8, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast, I talked to educators about the school-to-prison pipeline and how restorative justice in the classroom (which starts with you) can change the trajectory of a child’s life. One of the toughest parts of teaching students who enter our classrooms with a lot of personal and behavioral issues is that feeling of helplessness that comes from working with them.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment. Google Keep is one of my favorite G Suite tools! One fun way to use Google Keep is for feedback. In this post, I’ve got 4 ways to use Google Keep for feedback and assessment. Google Keep makes it easy to “keep” feedback comments, resources, references, badges, and images handy as you review and assess student work.

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