A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 1, 2018

As a child, I was enamored by nature. My twin brother and I were always observing and collecting any and all types of critters we could get our hands on. Growing up in a rural area of Northwestern New Jersey made it quite easy to seek out and find different plants and animals on a daily basis. We would spend countless hours roaming around the woods, corn fields, ponds, and streams in our quest to study as much local life as possible.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 1, 2018

This June will mark one year since my coauthor Eric Sheninger and I released Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today with ASCD. I feel blessed to say that the response by school leaders has been overwhelming. Eric and I continue to see firsthand the powerful transformation that is occurring in schools and we are encouraged by the innovative practices that are occurring each day.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2018

Canada has overtaken the UK as a preferred study destination for international university applicants in a number of regions, and is gaining ground on the US, new research shows. The report – QS Applicant Survey 2018: What Drives an International Student today?’ – released annually by global international education thinktank QS Quacquarelli Symonds, examines the destination preferences and study motivations of over 16,000 prospective international students across the world.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2018

School Walls Talk: Leading Through Space Design contributed by Dr. Robert Dillon Leading space design isn’t just another item to add to the already busy schedule for school leaders. It is an essential lever of change that can support all of the initiatives in the building. It is a comprehensive effort to rethink space […]. The post School Walls Talk: Leading Through Space Design appeared first on TeachThought.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 1, 2018

Here are some powerful video screen capture tools you can use to record everything that takes place on your Chrome browser. Some of them support desktop recording allowing you to record your screen.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2018

Mervian Smith. I recently spent three weeks in Morocco with a group of young women from New Orleans and Atlanta. We were there to engage in academic enrichment and to foster sisterhood. We rode donkeys on top of mountains and camels on the beach. We connected over couscous with our host families and learned the ways of bargaining. But we also went to Morocco as a group of mixed identities of women of color.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 1, 2018

This week on Truth for Teachers: We’ll talk about the best ways teachers can beat Sunday night anxiety and actually enjoy the entire weekend. Have you ever wasted half the weekend worrying about the week ahead? Even if you love your job, you might still wake up on Sunday mornings with a feeling of dread and spend the evening in a total state of anxiety simply because there are so many pressures associated with teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

Happy first of April—a day where the joke’s on all of us. It used to be that people waited until today to unleash their pranks. But some companies are jumping the gun. Duolingo got a head start with Brewolingo , “craft beers from America's Owliest Brewery to help you get fluent in any language” and which contain “a special blend of Owlcohol and Owlgorithms.

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 1, 2018

More emphasis on STEM studies has more language arts teachers working to integrate compatible nonfiction. But what about fiction? Megan Kelly shows how novels with STEM themes let students make an emotional connection to characters while learning scientific concepts.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 1, 2018

If you’ve ever been in an online community you are familiar with the posts that get a lot of attention. This usually also equals a lot of comments. When the comments start to pile in, it is hard to keep track of what’s what. What’s worse, sometimes the information shared is incorrect. Others times the comments go off track. One of the most annoying thing is when commenters chime in without reading previous comments and repeat information or just share something that is no longer relevant given t

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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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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 1, 2018

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 the wrap … is Amazon stepping up. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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MindShift

APRIL 1, 2018

Teaching through projects, interrogating the value of grades, attempting to make learning more meaningful and connected to young people’s lives and interests, thoughtful ways of using technology to amplify and share student work. These are just some of the ways teaching and learning are changing. But moving to these kinds of learning environments is a big shift for many teachers, schools, and districts; it’s hard to sustain change once the shiny newness wears off.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 1, 2018

This week on Truth for Teachers: We’ll talk about the best ways teachers can beat Sunday night anxiety and actually enjoy the entire weekend. Have you ever wasted half the weekend worrying about the week ahead? Even if you love your job, you might still wake up on Sunday mornings with a feeling of dread and spend the evening in a total state of anxiety simply because there are so many pressures associated with teaching.

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WJU EdTech

APRIL 1, 2018

It’s been a while! I’ve battled back and forth a while between various blogs…and which one to keep. As Educational Technologist of William Jessup University, I used this blog on a weekly (or more) basis. As a teacher, I used a different blog platform. Now, I will be starting a new journey of my life – school principal. Beginning this summer, I will start my next journey as a K-6 principal of a Christian school in the Sacramento area.

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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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The Principal of Change

APRIL 1, 2018

This past week was the five year anniversary of my father passing away. My dad was 82 years old when he died, peacefully passed away in his sleep, with no significant health concerns, and had a family that loved him. Our last words to each other in our final conversation were, “I love you.” I miss him terribly, but if I could choose a way to die, that would be it.

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