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Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is a how-to article from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor describing clever ways to make remote teaching work. A recommended read if your remote program isn’t working as you’d hoped: Tips for incentivizing your teachers team while working remotely. The challenges involved in working remotely are many and varied, yet arguably the most significant obstacle managers face when trying to steward teams from afar is keeping them engaged and motivated.

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Navigating a Year of Distance Learning as an Instructional Coach

Digital Promise

After a year of 100 percent remote learning, an affirmation I practice with my teachers is: “We are still here in this work for our students and community.” Some days it feels like we’re trudging through, but we take time to celebrate the bright spots and hold space for each other. In my role as Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) coach at Fischer Middle School in San Jose, and a member of the Digital Promise Powerful Learning Community (PLC) for Coaches, reflection, sustainability, and c

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Why Jo Boaler Believes This Math Curriculum Is the Key to Promoting Growth Mindset

Edsurge

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. As far as the school system was concerned, this was the group destined for low-level achievement. She recalls one of her students asking, “Why should we bother?

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How Covid Is Improving My Teaching Practice

MiddleWeb

With her students facing so many pandemic challenges, Michelle Russell decided to say ‘yes’ to as many requests as possible, whether it was late papers, school supplies, or a quick review minutes before a test. Here's what she’s discovered about the value of answering YES. The post How Covid Is Improving My Teaching Practice first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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.

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How Do You Teach in a Pandemic? Focus on Core Values

Edsurge

For many years, I listened regularly to the This I Believe podcast, which showcased people from all walks of life sharing the core values that guide their daily lives. Though it has been off the air for quite some time, I still think back to these stories and their poignant reflections. As a young teacher, I also engaged my students in their own This I Believe essays once upon a time.

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How AI is revolutionizing education

eSchool News

Artificial intelligence will accelerate the evolution of teaching and learning. Overall, AI should allow students to get personalized instruction and teachers to have more free time to prepare classes and update their information. While it’s still too early to evaluate the extent of the change in the quality and scope of instruction that AI might achieve, what is certain is that it will cause a revolution.

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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

A junior who is studying bioengineering, Amida Koroma has been a fixture on the dean’s list at the University of Maryland. Yet Koroma, who is Black, said she feels as if many of her white peers dismiss her as less capable. “When we’re working on group projects, they’ll say things like, ‘You can do the typing,’ as opposed to getting into the nitty-gritty of how to build this robot,” she said.

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K-12 education needs a cybersecurity overhaul

eSchool News

The 2019-2020 school year faced unprecedented challenges with the abrupt shift to remote learning brought about by the pandemic. But while schools struggled to adapt to these changes, there was another troubling trend on the rise: a surge in cybersecurity attacks. A recent report from the nonprofit K12 Security Information Exchange found that these incidents increased 18 percent over the last year to reach a record high, equating to more than two cybersecurity incidents per day.

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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

Understandably, reports indicating that higher education is heading toward a looming enrollment cliff have university administrators nervous. However, there is no shortage of potential new students if colleges widen their recruitment efforts to focus on traditionally overlooked candidates — including those who might dismiss college due to financial need or academic performance.

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Immersive Reader- Microsoft's Tool for Students with Vision Problems

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Immersive Reader is an excellent learning tool from Microsoft that helps students of all ages and skills develop their reading. Immersive Reader provides a wide variety of features to enhance.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

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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@VictoriaTheTech’s #1Favorite Microsoft Course!

Teacher Tech

Guest Post by Victoria Thompson Victoria’s Favorite Microsoft Educator Center Courses – #1: Creating Classroom Communities Using Social and Emotional Practices Okay, so technically I am cheating a bit–this is a learning path (a set of courses) instead of just one course. However, this is so important that I feel the need to give this […].

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5 Ways to Teach Public Speaking to Kids

EmergingEdTech

Public speaking is a powerful skills, yet young students (and even older ones) are often rather fearful of it. In fact, it remains a common fear well into adulthood for many people. Some kids are. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Biteable

Technology Tidbits

Biteable is an excellent site for creating stunning presentations/slideshows. All a user has to do is select a template (or create one from scratch), select a color scheme, and add audio to create a beautiful product. Best of all, a educator can publish/share a presentation via unique URL or embed it into a site or blog. Also, a user can set their presentation to public or private to help abide by CIPA/COPPA compliance.

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CNN New Day Weekend: Evan Marwell Interview

Education Superhighway

The pandemic has made it clear that without home broadband, American’s are shut out of economic security and opportunity. Click on the video below to watch Evan Marwell join CNN’s Boris Sanchez to talk about why better data is vital to President Biden’s infrastructure plan and the need for a permanent solution to addressing the affordability gap that is responsible for two-thirds of the digital divide.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Pedagogue

Technology Tidbits

Pedagogue is a excellent new social network for educators that makes it easy to collaborate w/ others and find educational resources. Also, Pedagogue is a great place to share a wide variety of resources such as: images, lesson plans, web sites, learning tools, templates, etc etc. Finally, Pedagogue lets educators seamlessly create groups or classrooms making it ideal for collaborative learning, professional development, and modify best teaching practices.

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29 Best Reading Bulletin Board Ideas To Encourage Students

Fractus Learning

Lost in an engaging book’s pages is one of the most incredible experiences for young to old. Classroom reading bulletin boards and library book displays are excellent resources teachers can use to encourage kids to start reading. Once students discover the wonderful world of books, they become lifelong readers. We compiled a list of the best reading bulletin boards teachers can use in their classrooms from K-5, middle school, and high school.

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Circly

Technology Tidbits

*Circly recently created some templates that are ideal for education. For example, the image above shows a template on what student's will be doing when they are finished w/ school. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.

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Preschool Bulletin Board Ideas To Encourage in 2021-2022

Fractus Learning

Preschool bulletin board ideas can inspire, engage, and create a happy atmosphere in the class. Toddlers are curious and cheerful, and a charming design will draw their attention, and they will want to participate. We had so much fun creating a list of the top bulletin board ideas for preschool teachers. The creativity and ideas are astonishing, and we enjoyed selecting these beautiful examples to inspire teachers in creating their unique bulletin boards and door decorations.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Buncee Update: Select Classes to Sync from Microsoft 365

Buncee

Attention Buncee for Schools and Districts users: Syncing your classes to Buncee from Microsoft 365 is now easier than ever! At Buncee, we want to give educators the power to personalize their virtual classroom, so you now have the option to choose which classes to sync from Microsoft 365! Now, educators can create as many classes as you need in Microsoft 365, and control which classes you want to sync to Buncee at any time.

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Easier Grading with This Google Docs Feature

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Docs has this excellent feature called 'Compare Document' which allows users to compare documents with a single click. As a teacher, you can use this feature to "to compare essays and track.

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