Sun.Sep 15, 2019

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Bringing Out the Best in Others

A Principal's Reflections

It’s no secret that great cultures bring out the best in people and in turn, this leads to systemwide success. Success is a fickle thing, though. There might be specific indicators that are used to quantify whether an organization is good or even great, but there is no set recipe that I know of as to how to accomplish this feat. What I do know is that it is not the result of one person or department.

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Black Teachers as Reparations: My Remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus

The Jose Vilson

The Center for American Progress in collaboration with Education Reform Now invited me and a host of other citizens with opinions on education to speak about education and racial equity. I’m honored and thankful they asked me to represent current classroom teachers as so few of us – if any – get opportunities to inform policy and practice on a regular basis.

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Educational Chromebook Apps for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For those of you using Chromebooks in their instruction here is a collection of some good applications to try out with your students. These are tools that will enable you to: create timelines, design.

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OPINION: From a former teacher, four ways to take the drama out of math class

The Hechinger Report

You could almost call it math class drama. Or you could just call it sad: “I’m not good at math.” “Math is my worst subject.” “It’s okay if you don’t understand. I wasn’t good at math either.”. Does this sound familiar? You’ve heard it in daily conversations, during homework time and on popular television programs.

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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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Two Helpful Google Docs Add-ons for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Editing a Google document can sometimes be a cumbersome task given the limited editing options embedded in Docs editor. The add-ons we are sharing with you today will help you overcome this.

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Bring Focus and Fun to Academic Vocabulary

MiddleWeb

Sometimes learning can get lost in a maze of academic vocabulary. As students move through the school day, they encounter hundreds of terms/concepts in a variety of contexts and content areas. How to help? Curtis Chandler shares lots of options for ELA and ELL teachers.

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The Importance of the Reciprocated Relationship in Education

The Principal of Change

I encourage you to watch this video from Edutopia on the importance of relationships for learning: “Emotion and learning are completely connected.” Research shows that students who feel safe and supported by adults at school are better able to learn. #HowLearningHappens pic.twitter.com/ELTtCWPJhz. — edutopia (@edutopia) September 7, 2019.

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What is Engagement?

The Thinking Stick

Last Saturday we had a thunderstorm move through Seattle…we don’t get them very often around here so a storm with over 2200 lightning strikes is pretty crazy and awesome….but more than that…it was Mother Natures way of calling in Fall. Since then the temp as barley hit 70 degrees if we’re lucky and the low slow clouds with off and on rain tell us that Fall is here.

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Online Learning was a Game-Changer for Me

ExcelinEd

To celebrate National Online Learning Day , Innovation Associate Policy Director Erin Lockett , shares her story of how supplemental online learning helped her win a longtime academic battle with statistics. . Third (Well, Fourth) Time’s the Charm . From the very first day of my first statistics course in high school , I learned I was terrible at statistics.

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Learning in the Making: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator

User Generated Education

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. It has finally been released for sale! Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. The process of bringing maker education into formal and informal educational settings involves different approaches and strategies than in a more traditional educational setting.

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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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8 ways to move out of overwhelm when everything feels exhausting

The Cornerstone for Teachers

You know those moments when you look at your to-do list, and feel like you can’t do anything on there because you’re so exhausted? When just basic adulting feels like too much? When you can’t get motivated because everything feels hard and there are so many things that need to happen you wouldn’t know where to begin even if you had the energy to try?