A Principal's Reflections
MAY 20, 2018
“ Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.” – John Maxwell I am currently working on a new edition of Digital Leadership for Corwin and I am very excited, as it will be in color. There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders.
The Jose Vilson
MAY 20, 2018
To Whom It May Concern, Recently, you invited me into your space to discuss what it means to be an educator of color doing this work. The term "work" is almost as ubiquitous as the word "equity," and in both instances fraught with ambiguity. When I tell people I'm up at the crack of dawn daily, lessons in mind, students strategically placed, necessary conversations placed in my frontal lobe, coffee in hand, I mean that I'm ready to educate students with all the energies bestowed upon me that da
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The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 20, 2018
This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: What should you do this summer to get rejuvenated and ready to tackle the new school year in the fall? The first few weeks of summer are almost always blissful, and the time seems to stretch ahead endlessly. We have plenty of days off in which we can afford to take it easy and not worry about getting things done.
Edsurge
MAY 20, 2018
Editor’s note: This is a response to a post from EdSurge columnist Michael Horn, “ Why Google Maps—not Netflix or Amazon—Points to the Future of Education.” Dear Michael, I am such a fan of your work that I generally treat the things you say about education as gospel. So when I found myself resisting your piece that asked whether “Google Maps” might be the right metaphor for the future of education, I figured I should scribble some notes about why.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 20, 2018
After featuring this free resource to help teachers better integrate the ethos of digital citizenship in their instruction, we are sharing with you this equally important resource designed.read more.
The Jose Vilson
MAY 20, 2018
To Whom It May Concern, Recently, you invited me into your space to discuss what it means to be an educator of color doing this work. The term "work" is almost as ubiquitous as the word "equity," and in both instances fraught with ambiguity. When I tell people I'm up at the crack of dawn daily, lessons in mind, students strategically placed, necessary conversations placed in my frontal lobe, coffee in hand, I mean that I'm ready to educate students with all the energies bestowed upon me that da
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MiddleWeb
MAY 20, 2018
As the school year winds down and heightened emotions proliferate, it's easy for teachers to lose their cool. Student (and parent) behavior that would have been met with patience earlier suddenly ratchets up teacher frustrations. Rita Platt shares her coping strategies – laughter included!
The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 20, 2018
This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: What should you do this summer to get rejuvenated and ready to tackle the new school year in the fall? The first few weeks of summer are almost always blissful, and the time seems to stretch ahead endlessly. We have plenty of days off in which we can afford to take it easy and not worry about getting things done.
The Innovative Educator
MAY 20, 2018
The school year is ending and for many innovative educators that is when their own learning begins as they hit local, national, and international conferences and events like the #NYCSchoolsTech Summit , Building Learning Communities , or International Society of Technology in Education Conference. When they do, they share their learning with their social learning network.
EmergingEdTech
MAY 20, 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 … learn how Pittsburgh's. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
techlearning
MAY 20, 2018
Since January 2018, 20 states have passed legislation and funded $49 million to expand. access to and diversity in K-12 computer science, according to the ? Code.org Advocacy Coalition ?, a group. of more than 60 industry, non-profit, and advocacy organizations working together to make computer science a fundamental part of K-12 education. [ 5 Tools to Teach Coding to Late Elementary Students ] These 20 states passed new laws or initiatives to support K-12 computer science (CS) since January of.
The Principal of Change
MAY 20, 2018
In “ Learner-Centred Innovation ,” Katie Martin shares the following: Just think how you might begin to make the changes and the impact you desire in school if instead of statements like, “If they would have,” you started asking, “How might I…?” This is what is referred to by psychologists as the locus of control or the extent to which people believe they have power to influence events in their lives.
Reflections
MAY 20, 2018
The mom is struggling on the other end of the phone to explain the situation involving her daughter to me. She asks me to put myself in her position. She asks me what more the district can do to support her daughter. Her baby. Her one and only. I tell her I am surprised by what she has shared as we've never seen the behavior or worry she is reporting.
techlearning
MAY 20, 2018
Kapwing is an online video editing website with a suite of tools. School-Friendly Features: No registration, account setup, or sign in required No installation or software updates Free to use Works on Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, Windows, and all other devices No distracting ads or video content Works with YouTube, Google Drive, and more Simple: Every tool on Kapwing is designed for someone with no video editing experience.
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 20, 2018
Education Secretary Betsy Devos at the Teacher of the Year ceremony at the White House on May 2, 2018. Photo: Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Wire. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Education levied a $30 million fine against for-profit Corinthian Colleges and limited the schools’ ability to participate in federal student-aid programs. The action was the result of an investigation that found that Corinthian schools had misled prospective students about the job-placement rates of their schools’ graduates
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