A Principal's Reflections
MAY 14, 2017
“ It is easy to knock people down. Building people up is at the heart of empathetic leadership.” - @E_Sheninger No significant relationship can exist without trust. Without relationships, no significant learning occurs. As I continue to research and reflect on strategies to build powerful relationships with others, the topic of empathy has a consistent presence.
Tom Murray
MAY 14, 2017
It’s that time of year again. School leaders begin to make their plans for the summer months; from professional learning days to administrative PLCs. The best teachers begin counting up the time remaining to make a difference in the lives of their kids. Both groups also look forward to some needed downtime and finally the opportunity to relax with a good book.
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Doug Levin
MAY 14, 2017
If you read one story this week about the state of technology in U.S. K-12 schools, let the New York Times piece by Natasha Singer be the one. I am pleased to have been able to share my perspective in the article and very interested to see the rest of this series.
Edsurge
MAY 14, 2017
Four-year college isn’t the path for everyone. Although high school graduation rates are on the rise , many students don’t see a bachelor’s degree as the right next step. This can be for a variety of reasons: grades, financial situations, different interests. And that’s OK. What’s not OK is when students give up on their future. The question is how do we engage these students and get them to graduate high school even after they’ve decided college isn’t for them?
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Teacher Tech
MAY 14, 2017
Where is the Rigor in Math? Struggling with that term Rigor in your math class? Administration and other teachers will ask “where is the rigor?” Here is an answer for you: Rigor (noun): the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate. “My class’s analysis of the problem is lacking in rigor.” Synonyms: Thoroughness, diligence exactness, […].
Edsurge
MAY 14, 2017
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored. Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. The latest, MEDSKL , aims to provide comprehensive medical content for use inside and outside the classroom. MEDSKL founder, Dr.
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The Principal of Change
MAY 14, 2017
Recently, I was listening to a teacher talk about their more “traditional” view of education, and how “compliance” wasn’t a bad thing for students. Even going a step further, saying students should be “obedient” I cringed a little. Okay, maybe a lot. First off, let’s look at the definition of “obedient”: obedient – complying or willing to comply with orders or requests; submissive to another’s will.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 For this week's Apps Gone Free series we brought a number of interesting apps that on sale today and only for a limited period of time. Some of the things you can do with these apps.read more.
MiddleWeb
MAY 14, 2017
Kevin Hodgson invites Troy Hicks and Kristen Hawley Turner to share their thinking about the need to teach argument in the context of students' authentic digital lives, using the structure of a traditional argument approach with such texts as videos and social media.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
MAY 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 Over the last few months we reviewed some excellent free Adobe apps teachers can use in their instruction namely Adobe Spark Video (for creating videos) and Adobe Spark Post (for.read more.
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.
The Innovative Educator
MAY 14, 2017
I had the opportunity to hear Jake Shea explain "How Google Works" sharing lessons from the book, " Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That will Transform How You Live and Lead." Shea shared several insights that work at Google and challenged those not at Google to think about how those insights can be realized where they work. One of the insights we were asked to think about was how we "reward thoughtful failure.
techieMusings
MAY 14, 2017
Pencils down, time’s up. Flashcards out — and ready, set, go! Capture all multiples of 5 before the timer is up, or game over. In elementary school, this is how I felt about math. I was always being timed. And I could never finish in time. Tests made me panic, I had to count on my fingers and toes, and my friend was always faster than me when we practiced flashcards.
MiddleWeb
MAY 14, 2017
"Since many students are in my class multiple times," writes ELL teacher Wendi Pillars, "I'm always seeking new topics to tie literacy skills together." This year one theme was "Zero Hunger" through sustainable agriculture. A perfect hook for a unit on eating insects.
EmergingEdTech
MAY 14, 2017
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 in the wrap … some of you know already. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 14, 2017
How can you use your summer to get ahead for fall when you don’t yet know your schedule or the needs of the students in your classroom? That’s the question I set out to answer with a special education teacher named Claire. She works with kids in grades K-6 and actually splits her time between 2 schools, so she’s at one school with one group of kids in the morning and another in the afternoon.
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