A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2017

This post, like so many, has been inspired by something I read. One of my favorite sites to glean more insight and knowledge on leadership is Inc. Even though the site shares content specific to business growth and innovation so many of the articles and opinion pieces connect to leadership in the education space. By using Flipboard I have instant access to many of the pieces that appear on Inc thanks to the fact that I have leadership set as one of my magazine categories.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2017

Edtech Apps that work From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Owl Eyes is a new, simple-but-powerful, and FREE web-app for reading classic books with your students. Literature teachers are sure to be excited! Track student progress and interact as they read and annotate. You can embed questions and quizzes into the text while they’re reading.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

When students interact with digital learning environments, they leave behind trails of data. The desire to understand and improve learning has led many educators to consider the value and utility of this information. But what can these data traces actually tell us about the students who left them, and how do we translate them into meaningful action?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 13, 2017

Can I make a confession? This is the time of year when classroom set-up photos are everywhere. Each photo we see has more clever ideas and adorable decorations than the last. These images are inspiring and creative and so much fun to look through…. …but they can also be incredibly anxiety-producing. I don’t even have a classroom anymore, and looking at room arrangements on Pinterest and Instagram still makes me feel like I can’t possibly measure up. 3 types of thoughts that run through my

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2017

Teach love, not hate. There's no more important lesson. Here are a few of the notable comments shared yesterday on the tragedy in Virginia. ".People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." - Nelson Mandela "My heart is in Charlottesville today, and with everyone made to feel unsafe in their country.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 13, 2017

Cheryl Mizerny resolves to spend this school year cultivating a culture of kindness among her middle level students as she joins with them to create The Kind Classroom. Summer reading and listening have helped lay the groundwork for her comprehensive SEL approach.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 13, 2017

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. I took the last week off to chill with my extended. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 13, 2017

A reflection of a former classroom teacher: I wish I would have known more. I wish I would have known more about the volume of reading. I wish I would have known more about small group instruction in tier 1. I wish I would have known more about the five components of reading. I wish I would have known more about teaching meta-cognitive strategies.

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techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2017

Students will learn about gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy through a virtual interactive roller coaster.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 13, 2017

The instruction that you provide to your students is the most important variable regarding student achievement. Good instruction can deliver up to two years growth for some students. The opposit Jennifer Allen writes, “focus on improving the quality of instruction that (you are) providing to all students…student achievement would improve if we focused more energy on supporting classroom instruction as opposed to putting all of our resources toward supporting individual students”.

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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.

Training

techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2017

Earth's deep geologic history and real science data at your fingertips.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2017

Lots of factors affect whether and what students learn in school, but most often that conversation gets boiled down into a single letter grade, a symbol of everything a student knows or doesn’t know. Because grades are often required, and easy to understand, they have become the focus for many parents, teachers and students. The problem is that grades are often subjective, arbitrary and can be demotivating to students.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 13, 2017

Having great content is important when delivering a professional learning opportunity but it is not enough. What is also important is to ensure opportunities are well organized and leave participants feeling they got exactly what they came for. Here are some considerations, followed by an explanation of each, that will enable you to accomplish just that.

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