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What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Teen Dating Abuse

The CoolCatTeacher

Ashley Bendiksen on episode 534 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter One in four teens will experience teen dating abuse. Teen dating abuse is on the rise and is being compounded by the pressure on teens to portray a “perfect relationship” on social media. So, when a teen admits what is happening, sometimes people don’t believe her or him.

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11+ Back-to-School Night Tips

Ask a Tech Teacher

Come Join me on BYU Radio, Sirius XM 143. Thursday, August 1 st at 5:00 and 7:00 a.m. PT. as we discuss Back to School Tips! Here’s the link: BYUradio is available locally in Utah on 107.9 FM 89.1 HD2 FM and on. A general transcript: What would you say the purpose of Back-to-School Night is? . BTS Night is traditionally a chance for all stakeholders in the child’s education journey to get to know each other.

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Design Thinking Is a Challenge to Teach — and That’s a Good Thing

Edsurge

In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. It was called, simply and descriptively, design thinking. Unlike some education trends, it didn’t catch on overnight. During the first fifteen years or so, implementation of design thinking in K-12 schools was a slow, steady progression.

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10 Leadership Development Books to Read Before School's in Session

Education Elements

We are big readers here at Education Elements, with book clubs and recommendations flying back and forth across our team. You can catch us reading on the plane, in the office, listening to books on our walks or runs, and – when we're lucky – by the pool! We like to share our favorites with you when we can, in the hopes that you'll find something inspiring and useful just like we did.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Growing the Culture of Learning with Verizon Innovative Learning schools

Digital Promise

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers in 100 middle schools across the country. The program equips every student and teacher in these select middle schools with a device and up to a four-year data plan, as well as extensive professional development and support towards powerful teaching and learning that leverages technology in and out of the classroom.

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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

Edsurge

These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. Or, at least, that SAT scores should be considered as just one factor among many in judging whether a student is ready for college, or a fit for a highly-selective campus.

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4 Ways Personalized Learning Could Change Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

4 Ways Personalized Learning Could Change Teaching contributed by Jennifer Jones PhD, Educational Entrepreneur and Founder of Green Ivy Schools Increasingly, teachers at the high school and middle school levels (and perhaps even elementary school) will be hearing the term ‘personalized learning.’ And as with so many terms in our field of education, it will […].

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6 reasons we’re using a student safety platform

eSchool News

When we started talking about a 1:1 computing initiative, one of the biggest concerns we heard from administrators, community members, and parents was, how were we going to monitor students digitally? After all, it’s one thing to know what students are doing when they’re sitting in a classroom, but giving them devices—and online access both in and out of school—presented a whole range of new challenges.

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OPINION: School counselors must ‘move mountains’ to help undocumented students access US higher education

The Hechinger Report

The generations after us will look back at 2019 one day and be ashamed of our apathy. They will wonder where we lost our heart and courage as we watched children separated from their parents in the United States and detained in what some have likened to concentration camps. Or how we stood by as children as young as 19 months old died after being in U.S. border patrol custody.

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2U Stock Tumbles After Online Degree Company Lowers Growth Expectations for 2019

Edsurge

The stock price for 2U , which partners with nonprofit colleges and universities to offer online degree programs, dropped about 56 percent overnight—between Tuesday’s market close and Wednesday’s opening— to $15.89 after the company told investors to expect greater losses than previously expected. 2U shares have not traded at this low since early 2016.

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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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Another Great App for Music Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Yousician is a very good app to help students learn to play piano, guitar, bass or ukulele. Here is how it works: you play your musical instrument, Yousician listens to you and gives you instant.

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Social Emotional Learning

techlearning

Social Emotional Learning Revolutionizes ISTE: Is “Edtech” Edging Toward Redundancy?

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Digita Security joins the Jamf family

Jamf on EdTech

Jamf acquires Digita Security, creators of enterprise-grade, purpose-built endpoint protection solutions designed specifically for Mac.

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Build Relationships Throughout the Year With These Awesome Icebreakers! Free Template!

techlearning

The following teambuilding and get to know you activities often take less than 5 minutes and have helped my students build strong bonds with each other and me.

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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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Digita Security joins the Jamf family

Jamf on EdTech

Jamf acquires Digita Security, creators of enterprise-grade, purpose-built endpoint protection solutions designed specifically for Mac.

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These 2 things can guide your change management

eSchool News

There are a number of old sayings about learning to understand another by walking in their shoes, moccasins, or sandals. Since those sayings cross quite a few cultures and were even turned into an Elvis Presley song—“ Walk a Mile in My Shoes ”—maybe edtech leaders need to consider the concept behind the saying. When IT leaders make decisions regarding changes to systems, it is essential to consider the perspectives of the end users in change management.

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The Surprising Thing about Lines in the Sand

Adjusting Course

This is one of those blog posts where I’m reflecting on my own thinking and evolution as an educator. (I often enjoy reading other educators’ reflections when they’re looking back on how they used to handle certain situations, so I suppose this is written in the same vein.) Receiving requests from parents that I can’t necessarily say “yes” to comes up somewhat often, and I wonder if you’ve had similar experiences?

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How a Spoonful of Sugar Helped Our Book Study

MiddleWeb

6th grade teacher Amanda Xavier was skeptical when colleague Rose Reissman suggested a Mary Poppins book study, but their multimedia approach was a hit. “If a very old fashioned nanny can bring smiles and make modern kids sit up in class and take note, I say, ‘Cheerio’!”.

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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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When Inventions Become Innovation

techlearning

Each year in late June, ISTE is held in a large US city, drawing educators and administrators from across the globe.

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Gamification And Its Effectiveness In Schools

Prodigy

Gamification in e-learning is defined as an educational approach to motivate students to learn by introducing gaming elements and video game design in the learning environment. The objective of gamification is to maximize engagement by capturing the interest of students and inspire them to learn and achieve more. Gamification is not entirely a new concept […].

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Best of show at ISTE

techlearning

For the sixth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors nominated products at the annual ISTE conference.

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In their own write

Learning with 'e's

Photo by StemT4L on unsplash Many teachers by now will be familiar with blogging for education projects that encourage children to write. If you haven't heard of any, then take a look at David Mitchell's Quadblogging project which encourages schools to team up to create audiences for students' blogs. Or, checkout Julia Skinner's 100 Word Challenge , which similarly creates global audiences for children's writing online.

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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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Report: T&L Leadership Summit

techlearning

The elation felt while attending the June 2019 Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in Philadelphia could be compared to the exhilaration of running up the Rocky Steps in the City of Brotherly Love.

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#AskExcelinEd: How Can States Create College & Career Pathways for Students?

ExcelinEd

Too many of our nation’s students are unprepared for the challenges they will face after high school. As a result, students are spending more on college for remedial courses, they are unprepared for careers so jobs are left unfilled, and states—and our nation—are experiencing unrealized economic growth. But it doesn’t have to be this way. College and career pathway policies can bring purpose to learning by allowing students to earn authenticated skill sets informed by labor market demand a

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Back Office Business

techlearning

Understanding how Chromebooks differ from other laptops will help educators and administrators decide if Chromebooks are right for their digital classrooms.

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For These Native American Girls, Coding Became the Language to Discuss Mental Health

Edsurge

Kindra Locklear was tuned in to CNN one day last fall when she came across a segment about a nonprofit organization that aims to close the gender gap in technology by teaching young girls to code. It struck a chord. Locklear works in the information technology department at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and sees first-hand how women are underrepresented in the field.

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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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Trending: Top 10 Stories for August 2019

techlearning

Podcasts include experts discussing accessible technology, digital equity, digital portfolios, inclusive classrooms, podcasting with students, and more.

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TEACHER VOICE: Looking back on my first year of school

The Hechinger Report

The night before my first day teaching science to the third grade, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. in a cold sweat. “I need to prepare more,” I thought. But I didn’t think about the hours I’d spent on the phone with my mother, a teacher herself, anticipating tricky science questions from scholars. I didn’t think about the weeks I’d spent researching my lessons, making sure every detail was burned into my mind so I wouldn’t let my scholars down.

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Extensive Free Resource Guides Exploration of Civic Engagement

techlearning

Digital Civics Toolkit is a free, teacher-facing website with lesson plans for exploring and fostering modern civic engagement and participation.

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The New Design for School Networks

edWeb.net

School- and district-wide wireless internet access is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s a must have. And with staff, teachers, parents, and students needing 24/7 access, there’s never a good time for down time. During the edWebinar, “ Smart Network Design for Transformation and Innovation: Reaching in and Beyond the Classroom,” the presenters discussed the six elements of CoSN’s new network design for continuous service.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.