A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

I still vividly remember my early years as an assistant principal and principal. Instructional leadership was a routine part of the job along with the budget, master schedule, curriculum development, meetings, email, phone calls, and many other duties. With the evolution of social media yet another responsibility was added to my plate in the form of digital leadership.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Welcome to Cycle 7 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Make it Meaningful ! “The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.” – Ron Dawson. Goal: Write a post or create a presentation or graphic explaining how blogging has helped you grow as an educator.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

There is a new platform for immersive learning games that’s taking classrooms across the world by storm. Based on the same principles as interactive Escape The Room digital games — which challenge players to use their surroundings to escape a prison-like scenario — Breakout EDU is a collaborative learning experience that enhances critical thinking and creativity while fostering a growth mindset in students.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

This past Spring, I saw something new. I visited Kirk Humphries’ 7 th grade Flipped Math class in Deerfield, Illinois and I was blown away with how he started his flipped class. Most flipped class teachers start out class by either answering questions from the flipped video, or by having students do a short quiz. Kirk did neither of those. Instead, Kirk asked students to summarize the video.

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Personalized Learning

Adam Welcome

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

It happened again. Of course I'm use to it, but it's a bigger problem than what's really on the surface. Yes - I'm a Director of Innovation and Technology. Yes - I use to set up Google Apps domains for Principals when I was still a teacher. Yes - I really love enhancing the curriculum in classes with laptops, tablets, coding and robots. Spoiler alert - it's not just me.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

For those of you using Macs in their instruction, the apps below are absolutely worth your attention. These are some of the most popular presentation apps in the Mac App Store which you can use in.read more.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

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 we’ve got a packed Wrap with lots of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Level it Books is the excellent mobile app (iOS/Android) that people everywhere are using to scan a book and get a Reading/Lexile Level. Educators are using it to create a digital library of class books, as well as creating a class roster of students w/ their Read Level. Also, a user can add a book, select a "book of the day", and manually search for any book as well.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

A convenient way to find, create, and review digital flashcards.

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Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Modern Chalkboard is a wonderful new free site for finding SMART board resources. This is a great place to find interactive lessons on a wide variety of subjects such as: Math, Grammar, Science, Social Studies, and more Also, this is a nice place to find other resources such as links and help files. I highly recommend checking out Modern Chalkboard by clicking here !!!

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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 Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

This post is based on the latest episode of my weekly podcast, Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers. A podcast is like a free talk radio show you can listen to online, or download and take with you wherever you go. I release a new 15-20 minute episode each Sunday and feature it here on the blog to help you get energized and motivated for the week ahead. .

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The Jose Vilson

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

I haven’t mentioned much about the presidential debates because a) I’m a socialist and b) the most affable person in the race said he’d step aside if he lost to the Democratic nominee. Even though everyone in the race was / is problematic, a requirement for running the world’s largest empire, it’s weird having such low favorability ratings for the two leading candidates in a presidential election.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Students at The Young Women’s Leadership Academy in New York. Photo: The Young Women’s Leadership Academy. As we continue to identify ways to break down barriers to opportunity and close the college access gap, we can look to an education model that took shape twenty years ago with 56 girls in East Harlem. When the seventh-graders walked through the doors of the newly formed public Young Women’s Leadership School , their parents rejoiced knowing that their daughters would have the kind of high q

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

RALEIGH, NC – On primary day surrounded by preschoolers, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greets volunteers at a Southeast Raleigh Magnet High school polling place in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday March 15, 2016. Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images. This interview is a supplement to a six-part series about how little the United States invests in the education of young children.

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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 Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to a preschool class at a YMCA in Rochester, New Hampshire on June 15, 2015. Photo: Melina Mara, The Washington Post via Getty Images. This story is the last story in a six-part series about how little the United States invests in the education of young children. Read the whole series. For the first time in U.S. history, Americans may be about to elect a president whose signature issue is early childhood.

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