A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 4, 2019
What is the purpose of education? To many, this might seem like a ridiculous question with the answer being quite obvious. Or is it? For this post at least, let’s go with learning. Some might equate this with the successful ability to be able to recall or memorize facts and information. The casual observer might then anoint anyone who is able to do this effectively as smart or intelligent.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 4, 2019
Edwin Thomas Minguela on episode 536 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, let’s make our profession better by focusing on how we can encourage new teachers and each other. Edwin Thomas Minguela reflects upon his first two years of teaching. As you listen to what he has learned and his encouragement for teachers, reflect upon your early years of teaching and how you can help new teachers in the profession.
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The Jose Vilson
AUGUST 4, 2019
The essential question: how can we reflect the changes we want to see in the world? Because I don’t have students in front of me during the summer, I have time to ask myself existential questions that offer space for self-congratulations and self-flagellation. In Dominican culture, we laugh with friends and relatives about the accuracy of household weaponry like belts and sandals.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 4, 2019
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Immediately, we can start to help new teachers and help each other in the process. The research gives us some insight into how each of us can help other teachers thrive. In this post, I’ll share the research about teacher retention and eight practical ways we can all make our schools and profession better.
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MiddleWeb
AUGUST 4, 2019
Instead of peppering English learners around a large network of schools, districts can benefit those students and their EL support teachers by strategically clustering them, writes Tan Huynh. Included: Ideas to help achieve buy-in from content teachers.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 4, 2019
Education is among the most female-dominated of professions. Yet strikingly few women make it to the top role in America’s state and district education systems. And along the path to leadership, they face a familiar and frustrating pay gap compared to their male colleagues. If we want to promote more women into education leadership, it’s incumbent upon us as a nation to stop this pattern of discrimination.
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The Innovative Educator
AUGUST 4, 2019
Haben Girma speaking to an audience of educators at an Accessibility Expo in Brooklyn, NY. View the video of her speaking. Are you doing everything possible to create an inclusive environment for your students? Haben Girma , author of Haben: The DeafBlind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law spoke to educators at an Accessibility Expo in New York City. She shared advice for making schools more accessible for students.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
AUGUST 4, 2019
ThingLink Edu is one of the best web tools you can use to annotate images and videos and create media rich visuals to share with your students in class. ThingLink enables you to add different layers.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
AUGUST 4, 2019
There are multiple truths that can be happening simultaneously. You can choose the ones that make you feel better or the ones that make you feel worse. You can also interrogate the story you are telling yourself about the facts, and make sure it’s true. ?. This is a very useful strategy for school-based work. Notice the stories that you layer on top of the facts.
The Daring Librarian
AUGUST 4, 2019
What do you get when you mash together Instagram, Vine, Flipagram, and Musical.ly? TikTok. My middle school students introduced me to TikTok this past school year when I noticed that my 6th grade girls were glued to it during recess. Fifteen second videos that you can add music plus filters, stickers, text, and more. Here's an overview from our friends at ABC News Australia Here's an example that I created on TikTok and shared to Instagram -- so that I an embed for you - since it doesn't seem th
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.
MindShift
AUGUST 4, 2019
When Fahmo Abdi and her family immigrated to the United States from Kenya, they lost contact with all of their loved ones. While living in a refugee camp, Abdi’s mother decided to move her family to the United States in search of a better life. “She knew she had to work hard to provide for us and [for] her family back home,” Abdi recalls.
The Principal of Change
AUGUST 4, 2019
I received a really great question the other day from a teacher regarding the notion of “innovation” and how I see it as something that is both “new and better” (with the emphasis on the “better”). I discussed this concept from “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” in the following paragraph: For the purpose of this book, I’m defining innovation as a way of thinking that creates something new and better.
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