Tue.Nov 02, 2021

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Coaching is Critical to the Success of a Shift to Blended learning

Catlin Tucker

The last two years have been mentally and emotionally exhausting for everyone in education. As I work with leadership teams, many are struggling to engage their teachers in professional learning this year. Schools invested money in purchasing devices and improving access to reliable internet to meet the demands of the pandemic, and leadership teams want to keep the momentum going.

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Level Up Your Team with Tech That Supports K–12 Esports Content Creators

EdTech Magazine

At St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida, students engage in competitive video gaming, known as esports. But behind the team of players, there’s another team of content creators — student journalists, graphic designers, broadcasters and others. “The entrepreneurial spirit that they’re learning through the club activities is priceless.

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Answering the Why? How? What? of lesson planning

Neo LMS

At the beginning of the pandemic, if you are a little bit like me, you may have felt there’s no point in teaching in such an unpredictable context. Finding purpose when school moved completely online was an ongoing process of defining the what, how and why of teaching. For me, it always started with the why : Why should school continue if we are so unsure about our future?

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School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care

Edsurge

If you get burned in a fire, you first treat the wound, but you also try to put the fire out. In education, we treat the wound and then usher our teachers back into the fire. Excuse the pun but they are more than burned out, they are scorched. Chelsea Prax, a program director at the American Federation of Teachers, sums it up succinctly. “You can’t deep-breathe your way out of a pandemic; you cannot stretch your way out of terrible class sizes; you cannot ‘individual behavior’ your way out of st

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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See Changes in Drive Files and Folders

Teacher Tech

Once edits have been made to documents in Google Drive how do you know it? The post See Changes in Drive Files and Folders appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Breaking Down the Early Childhood Crisis — and What Might Be Done About It

Edsurge

Early childhood education in America is on the cusp of an historic overhaul. A law pending in Congress would help support free, universal pre-K for every three- and four-year old in the nation and make child care more affordable for millions of families. It would be the biggest policy change—and investment—in early childhood in decades. The measure addresses what many experts see as a crisis in early childhood care and education pushed to a breaking point by the pandemic.

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Today’s College Students Care About Privacy — Despite Some of Their Online Actions

Edsurge

Today’s college students grew up steeped in social media and the internet, leading some observers to assume that they’re unconcerned about all the data they generate online. But it turns out that young people today care a lot about their data privacy, even though they sometimes act in ways that jeopardize that privacy. That’s according to a new report from the nonprofit Future of Privacy Forum , which analyzed recent research about young adults from the U.S., China, Germany and Japan.

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5 ways to foster family engagement in your district

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shift to virtual and hybrid learning left families and educators with important discoveries, including the realization that family engagement and home-school communication are critical to student success. One-way communication falls flat, and families must be engaged with schools in order for schools to create and maintain equitable learning environments for students, says Mahnaz R.

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Transactional and Transformational Leadership

The Principal of Change

Recently, I was asked to discuss the differences between “transactional” and “transformational” leadership. I agreed and then thought to myself, “What do those things even mean??!?!” Off to the Google machine, and I found the following from the Florida Tech website : This brief definition was also shared: That made sense, but I want to dig deeper.

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3 steps to creating a comfortable learning environment

eSchool News

Students have started a new school year and are facing the many challenges still present with in-person learning amid a pandemic. One of the most important to address is how schools address student safety and health–both physical and mental. CDC research has already documented the negative effects COVID-19 has inflicted upon children’s mental well-being.

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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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What is Equity Maps and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks

techlearning

Equity Maps is a real-time tracker to see who is doing the talking, ideal for classroom use.

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Koala Crate – Rainbows – KiwiCo Box Review

Fractus Learning

Table of Contents The Koala Crate – Rainbows Project Review Imagine Magazine For Koala Crate Rainbows The Cloud Stickers Were Fun – Making The Rainbow + Cloud Pillow Stained Glass Art Rainbow Tote Bag Thoughts and opinions on Koala Crate – Rainbows What I Loved What I'd Improve. Here’s another Koala Crate review by one of our Friends of Fractus families that has an eager 3 1/2 year old girl with a love for rainbows!

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Best Graphic Organizers for Education

techlearning

These digital tools and apps make it easy to create beautiful and productive graphic organizers.

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6 Ideas For Using Buncee in the Elementary Classroom

Buncee

The following is a guest blog by Teacher Librarian Tyllie Corbin. Read on to see how Tyllie uses Buncee in collaboration with classroom educators. Last year my, district had the opportunity to use Buncee for Schools and Districts, and I found several beneficial ways to use it with my students. Buncee has a wide variety of media features, so my students can experiment with using a combination of text, video, audio, and images to demonstrate their learning.

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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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I Know It

Technology Tidbits

I Know It is a fantastic site for interactive Math lessons grades K-5th. This is a super fun easy to use site for practice on a wide range of topics, such as: place value, multiplication, counting coins, time, and more. Best of all, I Know It allows educators to assign lessons and track student progress to make it easy to differentiate instruction. I highly recommend checking out I Know It by clicking here !!!

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How Donor Support Can Impact ST Math Implementation

MIND Research Institute

How do MIND’s philanthropic and strategic partners help students get more out of our ST Math program? Across the country, our social impact partners are having a positive impact on students that we serve together. Of the more than 1.7 million students currently using ST Math, more than 20% of those students have access to the program with the help of funding from our partners.

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Quick Rubric

Technology Tidbits

Quick Rubric is the wonderful site for creating rubrics from the creators of Storyboard That. This is far and away the easiest site I've seen for creating a beautiful rubric where a user can add a row or a column w/ a tap of an arrow button. Everything inside of the rubric is customizable (i.e. from the heading tocustomizing points) and a user can save/print out as many rubrics as they need.

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Helping Students Learn to Play (and Win at) the Game of School - A Learning Revolution Thrive! Webinar

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

How to Win at the Game of School: a Survival Guide for Students and their Parents and Teachers Part of the LearningRevolution.com 'Survive and Thrive!' Series OVERVIEW : Outside of family, the high school experience can be the number one influence on a person's success or failure in college, work, and life. This webinar is about helping students understand that there are secrets to school success and then how they can play the game of school in such a way as to become strong, lifelong learners.

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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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iCivics

Technology Tidbits

iCivics is a fantastic site for learning about Civics through Game Based Learning. Best of all, iCivics has an educational portal that allows educators to create and manage student accounts. Also, teachers can create assignments such as games/webquests and track student performance w/ detailed reports. Finally, a educator can create a forum or message board to engage students in online discussions and send out class announcements.

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Using Data to Improve Student Outcomes and School District Management

edWeb.net

Blog post by Robert Low based on this edLeader Panel. While educators and school district administrators have grown used to reviewing assessment results and other forms of student data, they may not yet be looking at newer and increasingly important metrics such as online engagement, trending use of apps, and the return on investments in software. The value of having a comprehensive data-management system for a school district was discussed during a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn,

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The Learning Network

Technology Tidbits

The Learning Network is an excellent site from the NY Times that provides an abundance of of educational resources and lesson plans for students and teachers. This free and "reliable" news source is ideal for HS aged students and covers a variety of current events going on in the world. Best of all, The Learning Network has a a wide range of activities such as: quizzes/vocabulary, writing prompts, images, lessons, and much much more.

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30+ Ways to Use FREE Templates from Canva in Your Classroom (Part 2) – SULS0133

Shake Up Learning

The post 30+ Ways to Use FREE Templates from Canva in Your Classroom (Part 2) – SULS0133 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Canva is FREE for teachers and students, and their templates are beautiful, user-friendly, and great for the classroom! In this 2-part series, Kasey shares 30+ ways to use FREE Canva templates in your classroom, including graphic organizers, choice boards, certificates, and more!

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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.