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The Change Leader

A Principal's Reflections

Everyone seems to want change. While this, in essence, is a good thing, the reality is that many people don't want to actually go through the complex process. If this wasn't challenging enough, the individuals needed to lead it is even less. Thus, there must be a combination of willingness, planning, and action that results in improvement when any idea is put forth.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05

Dangerously Irrelevant

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. We then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations.

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Bob Moses and The Enduring Education Injustice

The Jose Vilson

When I first met Bob Moses, I was potentially too eager to meet him. For years, his book Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project had taken over several facets of my pedagogical imagination, from how I taught students about integers (even when I couldn’t take them on trips myself) to slopes and equations. Not only did I have the privilege of meeting civil rights and Black liberation activists who were living legends like Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, and Felipe

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How To Make A Video Syllabus For Your Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

A video syllabus is a version of your syllabus in video form. It can be a simple slideshow or a creative framing of your course. The post How To Make A Video Syllabus For Your Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Grab These Two Educational Music Apps- They Are Free Today

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below are two good music apps that are free today and only for a limited period of time. I discovered these apps through the awesome Apps Gone Free platform and thought music teachers and music.read more.

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Free: Create Avery Address Labels in Google Docs

Teacher Tech

Create Avery Address Labels in Google Docs for FREE. The post Free: Create Avery Address Labels in Google Docs appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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When your school’s plan keeps changing, use Tina Fey’s 4 rules of improv

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Caitlin Hilzer. With the 2020-2021 school year quickly coming to a close, you’ve likely been trying to find ways to squeeze your content into those last few precious weeks. Unless, of course, your school is switching learning modes again … or students are constantly in and out of the school building … or you’re spending all of your time trying to reach students on the other side of a computer screen… If there’s one thing I know about tea

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When your school’s plan keeps changing, use Tina Fey’s 4 rules of improv

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Caitlin Hilzer. With the 2020-2021 school year quickly coming to a close, you’ve likely been trying to find ways to squeeze your content into those last few precious weeks. Unless, of course, your school is switching learning modes again … or students are constantly in and out of the school building … or you’re spending all of your time trying to reach students on the other side of a computer screen… If there’s one thing I know about tea