A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

No, this is not a post about value-added evaluation practices. I believe that ship has sailed. There is a great deal of research and evidence out there that pretty much debunks the claims of many in the world of education reform that accountability systems based solely on student achievement data have any merit. What I would like to discuss are ways that schools can provide increased value to students based on changes to the learning culture.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2017

Farting in a bottle. My entire early philosophy on teaching began with this phrase. It encapsulated my desire to give students structure (the bottle), but allow them space to iterate in the structure, free of impediments. This process would be messy and chaotic, hence the nod to flatulence. I wanted my students to “smell” like people that brainstormed, experimented, succeeded and failed.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 11, 2017

June 11, 2017 Splashtop Personal (retail $19.99 USD) is free today and only for a limited period of time. Splashtop Personal allows you to remotely access your desktop (Mac or Windows) from your iPad.read more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2017

During recent interviews with education technology decision-makers at institutions of higher education, I was struck by the sometimes extreme views formed about vendors during the process of procuring tools to support teaching and learning. Company representatives are anathema to some, yet indispensable partners to others. Yet all higher-ed institutions need and use technology, and most rely on external developers rather than develop their own tools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JUNE 11, 2017

June 11, 2017 The popular Toca Lab app is free today and only for a limited period of time. Toca Lab, which is a series of playful science apps, is a periodic table that features 118 elements to help.read more.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 11, 2017

The post 10 Reasons to Become a Google Certified Educator (infographic and video) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 10 Benefits to Becoming a Google Certified Educator. Want to know what all the fuss is about? I am asked this question all the time, “What are the benefits to becoming a Google Certified Educator?” So I put together this handy infographic and video to talk about the 10 Reasons to Become a Google Certified Educator.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 11, 2017

To run effective meetings it is helpful to have insights into the personality types of your colleagues using a tool like, DISC, which you can access for free here , Myers Briggs which you can access for free here , and Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI). This was the tool of choice at a recent workshop I attended led by Coaching Psychologist Yaron Prywes ( @Yaron321 ) who specializes in innovation.

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MiddleWeb

JUNE 11, 2017

How can teachers use brain-friendly strategies to help students encode, store and retrieve vocabulary words? Educator and author Marilee Sprenger shares some high-interest activities designed for each stage of learning academic words. Some just require a few minutes!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Hurricane Matthew hit South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island in October, causing widespread damage Photo by Robert Loe. The end of the school year is a busy time, filled with field trips, final projects, and, of course, spring testing. While student testing often receives negative attention, my colleagues and I take an alternate view on it. That’s why when there was a question about eliminating the spring Measures of Academic Progress , or MAP, growth assessment, our English department spoke up.

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EmergingEdTech

JUNE 11, 2017

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 our Twitter post compendium … [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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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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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 11, 2017

The Summer Reading List is Here! ( as seen on our MHMS Daring School Edublog ) View & Download the Middle School Summer Reading List Thanks to our our A+ partner Librarians at the Howard County Library and two of our local HCPSS Middle School Teacher-Librarians we have created this Super Fun Reading List for all the kiddos in our district! (or the world!

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 11, 2017

Attending so many conferences, there is a common theme that you will hear from most. How do we get our students better at school? They might not say that straight out, but it is the underlying narrative. What I do not hear enough is, “How do we start to find the brilliance and talents in each of our students?” Here is an easy solution to the latter question.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 11, 2017

Brass Cogs and Virtual Steam: A Steampunk Cycle of Inspiration I love my Acorn Media streaming account! Why? Because it brings me the BEST British documentaries. I'm kinda obsessed with them. I watch.a LOT. Mostly about the ancient world, but one of my recent favorites is Calculating Ada a BBC 4 documentary presented by fellow ginger, the imminently engaging Maths Professor Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ Photo: Liz Willen. This is the final story in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. This installment focuses on their final college choices.

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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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Doug Levin

JUNE 11, 2017

In which I implore us to move beyond claims of "hit jobs" and "fear mongering" to fact based discussions of whether and where new guardrails may be needed to avoid conflicts of interest and the undermining of the democratic underpinnings of public schools brought about by the dramatic, technology-enabled changes remaking U.S. schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says.

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