A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 18, 2019

I am a huge fan of Buncee. The following is a guest post by Rachelle Dene Poth ( @Rdene915 ), Spanish and STEAM Teacher at Riverview High School in PA. For several years, Buncee has been one of my favorite creation tools; both for personal use and for classroom instruction. While there are many digital tools to choose from when it comes to teaching and having our students create, Buncee’s versatility and ease-of-use make it a go-to tool for all creative needs.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 18, 2019

Reenvisioning The Teacher As A Maker: 9 Roles For The Teacher That Leads by TeachThought Staff Jackie Gerstein’s User Generated Education is a favorite of ours, with her ideas on self-directed learning, connectivity, experiential learning, and other strands of progressive teaching and learning very much in aligned with our own thoughts on what a modern learning experience should […].

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 18, 2019

Traditional questioning routines can send unintended messages to some students that they are not “smart” enough to engage in classroom conversations, writes author and teaching expert Jackie Walsh. Learn how to weave SEL-friendly questioning into your daily practice.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 18, 2019

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, we are re-publishing an updated version our popular math chart featuring some of the best resources for math teachers. 'We have arranged these resources into.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

On a sweltering summer day, students run back and forth on a grassy field. Frequently erupting in laughter, they playfully dodge one another. On the ground, two balls about the size of tennis balls are connected by a leather strap, and the children race to lift the balls from the ground with long sticks. These Native American children are learning to play double ball , a traditional indigenous game, or at least that seems to be the focus of their activity.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 18, 2019

ViewPure is one of our favourite web tools to use for purifying YouTube videos. We have already reviewed it here in the past and we are re-featuring it for those of you new to our blog.YouTube is a.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 18, 2019

Switch From Suggesting Edits to Editing In Google Classroom, if you open a student document from Classroom it opens in the Feedback tool. For Google text documents, this defaults to suggestion mode. This means that if you type on a student’s Google text document that it is added as a suggestion the student has to […]. The post Google Classroom: Exit Suggestion Mode appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 18, 2019

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: We might not realize it but our automatic responses and choice of words can sometimes send the wrong message to our students — here are 5 unhelpful things I’ve said to kids when I was in the classroom. Have you ever been really upset and had someone tell you to calm down? That happened to me the other day, and it drove home just how spectacularly unhelpful it is to tell a person who is upset to calm down.

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MindShift

AUGUST 18, 2019

Joanna Schroeder started getting worried when her sons were coming to her with loaded questions. “One of my kids said: If you can be trans and just decide what you are then how come you can’t just decide to be a penguin?” said Schroeder, a writer and mother of two sons and a daughter, in an interview with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 18, 2019

Edpuzzle the world's leading digital tool for taking a video and making it your "own" has released a bunch of new updates for the upcoming school year. New Features Live Mode - project Edpuzzle videos up on a screen and have student answer questions in real-time on their won devices easily assess and differentiate instruction Open Class - student's can join an existing class w/out having to create an account ideal for PD or El Ed students LMS Integration - Edpuzzle synce w/ most popular LMS such

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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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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 18, 2019

With the release of “ Innovate Inside the Box ” this past week, I was given the fantastic opportunity to share my “Sunday Seven” with the Burgess Consulting community which “ IMPress Books ” is a part of as a subsidiary company. The “Sunday Seven” is just seven random things from different people each week and I have found some great educational tools, followed some great people, and found some excellent TV shows.

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