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Powerful Student Voices: Helping the World Understand Kids

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah Juelke helps refugee students tell their stories From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Leah Juelke, 2018 North Dakota State Teacher of the Year, works with EL English and Speech in Fargo, North Dakota. She has helped children under her care tell their stories and have a voice for their experiences. Recently, some of her students help shape state policy towards refugees by telling their stories.

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Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): Helping teachers to address their children’s emotional needs

The Journal

Continuing with our blogs that investigate SEL (social and emotional learning), in this week’s post, we explore the role that the classroom teacher can play in helping our children develop those critically important social and emotional skills and habits. The blogpost is written by a noted expert on children, teachers, and education, Dr. Shelja Sen, who is based in Delhi, India and is a co-founder of ChildrenFirst, a center that provides children with mental health care solutions.

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Teaching Fireworks: Why Zest Simmons Loves Teaching #LoveTeaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Zest Simmons on episode 626 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Zest Simmons is an award-winning AP English recognized for how she helps diverse students achieve excellence. In this episode, she tells her story for #LoveTeaching week. Presently, Zest Simmons is an award-winning AP Teacher and Alabama State Teacher of the Year 2019.

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169 Tech Tip #70 Visit Foreign Language Google Search

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Visit Foreign Language Google Search.

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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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5 Questions to Ask When Selecting a DRaaS Provider

EdTech Magazine

K–12 districts collect massive amounts of data — and face countless threats against it. Complete data loss would be a true disaster. In addition to a disaster recovery plan, Disaster Recovery as a Service can help ensure continuity of operations. Here are key questions to ask when choosing a DRaaS provider.

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Is There A Downside To Obtaining A GED?

EdNews Daily

For almost all practical purposes, a General Education Development (GED) certification is equivalent to a high school diploma. The only possible drawback would be to put this undertaking off and to spend longer than necessary without it. Difficulty. There are several versions of high school equivalency tests : the GED (which is a brand), the Hi-SET, and the TASC.

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8 tips to launch an esports program in your district

eSchool News

It may lack sweat equity, but it’s up there with even the most physically demanding of sports. Esports, the competitive side of video gaming, is exploding. And K-12 schools are buying in, because esports is not only fun, but also a viable educational tool! A recent edWebinar , “Ready Player One: Esports in K-12,” highlights why esports has taken hold in schools.

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The Dance of the Not Commons

Iterating Toward Openness

Last October Doc Searls gave the Ostrom Memorial Lecture for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. In his lecture he carries on what I believe to be an incredibly unfortunate tradition. I’ll call it, “the dance of the not commons.” It’s an incredibly simple dance. Step one (right foot): state that something (e.g., the internet, knowledge, OER) is a commons.

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Chrome Extensions to Enhance Your Online Reading Experience

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here is an updated list of some of the best Chrome extensions to help you enhance your online reading experience. Some of the tools we published in last year's post (like Clearly and.

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Google Classroom: Click on the 2nd Icon

Teacher Tech

Use the 2nd Icon in the Feedback Tool In Google Classroom when you click on student work in an assignment it opens in the feedback tool. Sidebar The sidebar has 3 icons on the edge. The default is the files icon. This is where you can see what files students have submitted. There is also […]. The post Google Classroom: Click on the 2nd Icon appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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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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11 Free Websites That Will Help You Create Awesome Branded Slide Decks

TeacherCast

In this blog post, you will learn about several websites that offer free templates that can be used in Apple Keynote, Google Slides, or Microsoft PowerPoint to create a customized slide deck template from which you can build your presentation or speech. For more information or two learn how you can Build Your EDU Brand, please visit www.BuildYourEDUBrand.com to learn how to work with Jeff Bradbury today!

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Watch Out for Unintended ‘Microaggressions’

MiddleWeb

Racial "microaggressions" do harm to students’ self-image and health, says teacher Cheryl Mizerny, who has spent a decade studying this common teacher behavior and how to avoid it. Learn ways to recognize these often unintentional slights and better support all students.

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11 Free Websites That Will Help You Create Awesome Branded Slide Decks

TeacherCast

In this blog post, you will learn about several websites that offer free templates that can be used in Apple Keynote, Google Slides, or Microsoft PowerPoint to create a customized slide deck template from which you can build your presentation or speech. For more information or two learn how you can Build Your EDU Brand, please visit www.BuildYourEDUBrand.com to learn how to work with Jeff Bradbury today!

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Another way to quantify inequality inside colleges

The Hechinger Report

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. One way to look at inequality in America is to notice how people of different races and ethnicities get sorted into different colleges. In Virginia, for example, more than 50 percent of all black college students attend just four colleges, according to research by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank.

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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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Instructional Shift

Reading By Example

I’d like your attention over here. Our tai chi instructor, in the front of the room, was referencing his footwork during the long form. We were practicing how to move side-to-side. He demonstrated while explaining as we followed his lead. Two practices are offered per week at our local movement studio ; I usually manage to attend one of them. My personal goals are to be more mindful and reduce stress, part of our class’s larger goal of reaching a level of independence.

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Top 5 financial planing tricks

Turning Learning On Its Head

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FREE Tech Coach Resources

Shake Up Learning

The post FREE Tech Coach Resources appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you an instructional coach, tech coach, or in another instructional leadership role? This page is loaded with FREE resources to help you and your teachers make an impact! © Shake Up Learning 2020. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.

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Unique Get To Know You Questions For Kids And Parents To Share

Fractus Learning

When the conversation is flowing, you’re delighted as a parent because your kid is connecting with you. Your child is sharing with you what’s going on in their lives— their successes and failures, hopes and fears. [.].

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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.

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Google Classroom: The Latest Updates

techlearning

Looking at the latest features

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How to eliminate common hiring bias by using online assessment software?

Think Exam

The recruiters are no robots and no matter how professional they are, still, bias has got the power to cloud their decision. To eliminate this drawback corporates are adopting the technology of online assessment software which is effectively countering the bias factor. According to research, 70% recruiters use job skill tests; whereas 46% of the recruiters use personality and psychological tests, and 41% recruiters use basic literacy and math skill tests.”.

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Ansel Adams

techlearning

Ansel Adams, famous for his black and white nature photography, was born February 29, 1902.

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Science gets a boost from Challenge-Based Learning

eSchool News

A Challenge-Based Learning model pioneered by Apple is now helping teachers engage middle school students in deep learning through projects that combine developing questions, investigating scientific phenomena, and solving problems in their classrooms, schools, and communities. In a recent edWebinar , Anthony Baker, project director for Digital Promise, which has further developed and researched the Challenge-Based Learning model, explains that this approach enables students to make meaningful c

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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High-Adventure Science: Free Earth Science Lesson Plans

techlearning

High-Adventure Science is a set of six modules focused on earth science topics.

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