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Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing

A Principal's Reflections

Remote learning has been thrust upon school districts. The result has been disruptive change like we have never seen before. In a previous post, I shared some broader ideas to help navigate these uncharted waters. However, the fact remains that there are now expectations to get work out to kids in many forms. So, what does this all mean? Educators now shoulder the burden to create lessons and activities that will enable students to learn at home.

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How To Be Kind In #covid19

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We can separate in physical distance, but we don’t have to be apart in heart. Let’s process our grieving emotions and come through understanding that we need to be physically distant, but we still need to be socially connected. First, let me tell you how I learned the lesson of staying away from people back in December.

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Teach Math Remotely with Pear Deck

Teacher Tech

Stacey Roshan is the master of teaching math. I was going to put “with Pear Deck” but she’s an awesome math teacher so I just want to end the period after the word math. She teaches both face to face math and an online AP Calculus class. Now that she is remote learning with all […]. The post Teach Math Remotely with Pear Deck appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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OPINION: Four effective strategies for parents who are now homeschooling their children

The Hechinger Report

Millions of parents nationwide have been thrust without warning into the role of homeschool educator for the first time. This stark and sobering experience is the new reality. We are longtime educators, as are our wives. There are five children in Brian’s family. Jon’s family has three. Total age range: 5 to 15. Friday, March 20, 2020, 7:00 a.m. — On Day 5 of New Hampshire’s public school closings, Zoey Stack, age 5, Owen Stack, age 6, and Liam Stack, age 10, begin their school

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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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Close Reading Tips for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Close reading is an essential survival skill specially now that we live in a data-saturated world where we are constantly bombarded by all forms of textual and non-textual stimuli. At its core, close.

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Repost: EPIC! Books free and very useful in context of telepractice

SpeechTechie

This is a repost from 5 years ago (I will do this here and there to point out resources useful in telepractice). EPIC! offers free educator accounts so you can read/discuss/question/paraphrase/focused language stimulate/recast when using a book synchronously (meaning over a telepractice portal) and currently free remote student access (meaning you can provide students with books to read asynchronously , also a mode of telepractice, assigning work/activities to be done when you are not there).

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5 Virtual Teaching Strategies We’re Using

MiddleWeb

With the increase of schools worldwide offering distance learning or virtual schools in response to the COVID19 outbreak, middle grades teacher Tan Huynh details how his Saigon international school has developed one-to-one online learning for students since February 3.

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Schools are closed. This is our chance to reimagine them.

The Cornerstone for Teachers

One of the few teaching-related topics anyone seems to be able to focus on right now is this: “ How am I supposed to teach remotely — like, right now? There’s a gazillion free and paid resources being shared and it’s taking me hours to comb through them and I keep questioning myself because I have no idea what I’m doing and every new strategy I see makes me think what I’m doing isn’t good enough and then I get overwhelmed by all of it and just think, this is never going to work.”.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

Several years ago, social worker Lisa María Rhodes began working closely with a new segment of the George Washington Carver High School student body, immigrant students who arrived from Central America and were placed with family members who had been drawn to New Orleans by jobs as the flooded city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Free #RemoteLearning Curriculum from @TeachingMatters

The Innovative Educator

Launching remote learning? Get a weeks worth of student-facing home learning resources aligned to the NYC schools' remote learning curriculum. It's also available in Google Classroom. More coming.next week. Visit the Teaching Matters Site to download the curriculum for your grade and subject.

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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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Online Teaching Reflection: Day -10

Cycles of Learning

Like teachers all around the globe I am in the process of transforming my face-to-face classroom instruction into one that is delivered 100% virtually from my living room. Below is the daily schedule that my school, Sonoma Academy, is transitioning to. Currently I teach 3 courses that all pose their own unique challenges in preparing for this transition: 10th grade Honors Chemistry (CD Period), 10-12th grade Biochemistry (EF Period), and 10th-12th grade Engineering for Social Good (AB Period).

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5 Questions You Should Ask Your Leader #Podcast

The Principal of Change

Since I initially recorded this podcast in early February, a lot in our world has changed since then. Instead of posting this now, I hope that you can glean some insights from what I am sharing and create some ideas to apply to today’s context. That is the whole premise of the Innovator’s Mindset. What will you do with what you know? I discuss the following idea in this podcast; “You might be ready to lead, but are others ready to follow you?

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Free Family Engagement Tool For Impacted Schools and Districts

eSchool News

PowerMyLearning, a national nonprofit, is committed to helping school and district leaders who are mobilizing to implement remote learning plans in response to COVID-19. We know how critical it is for you to support students’ learning while also keeping families connected. PowerMyLearning Family Playlists® can help make that transition smoother. Unlike other online initiatives, Family Playlists use families’ phones, so families can fully participate without having a laptop or computer at home.

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Tech & Learning Leadership Roundtables Online: Protecting Students by Planning Ahead

techlearning

TL's exclusive online webinar sessions allow leaders from education to discuss remotely online the key issues which are impacting the industry.

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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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Everything a Teacher Needs To Know About Cover Letters

Fractus Learning

New teachers are eager to start teaching their first-class, and experienced teachers may want to apply for another teaching job. The challenge of writing a cover letter to accompany the resume could almost convince potential candidates not to apply for the teaching job. [.].

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For This Year’s College-Bound, The Future Is In Turmoil

MindShift

This spring was supposed to be an exciting time for Xander Christou. He’s a senior in high school in Austin, Texas, and was looking forward to all the fun: prom, senior skip day and of course, graduation. But all that’s now out the window. “There’s a sense that it’s incomplete,” says Christou. The school district has closed until April 3rd and Christou says he has this feeling that a unique chapter in his life — senior year — is slipping away. “They̵