A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Leadership is far from a science. Many would even argue that it is more of a form of art. Since effective leadership means different things to different people, I wanted to dive a little deeper into this debate to glean a better understanding as to what great leaders do. It consists of a convergence of art and science. Tanveer Nasser shares this perspective: Unlike science, art allows for a more subjective interpretation of ideas or concepts; that there’s no need for a singular, fixed answer or

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2018

James Clear on Episode 381 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. James Clear, author of Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones , talks about healthy habit building for students and teachers. Project Pals has a useful classroom collaborative platform that lets you create and manage projects for your students.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The use of Destination Imagination (DI) has been recommended by my supervisor for use with gifted students. I teach gifted students at two Title 1 elementary schools. DI MISSION. To engage participants in project-based challenges that are designed to build confidence and develop extraordinary creativity, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

. “Balanced literacy.” It means different things to different people. On the importance of explicit, systematic phonics instruction , I agree with Emily Hanford’s arguments in her recent article. I also believe that part of the reason we are still having this debate of phonics versus whole language versus balanced literacy is a matter of definitions.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Reading As A Practice: It’s Time Stop Teaching Kids How To Read by Terry Heick Preface: I’m writing under the assumption that the ‘child’ in question has access to some form of mobile technology, and that’s a problematic assumption that causes problems for my thesis, here. Nonetheless, addressing both ‘sides would require a far more […].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The iPhone App store offers dozens of apps aimed at preschool students. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Preschool is a major market in the world of apps, with more than half of apps on the Apple and Android platforms geared toward kids 5 and under. But few of these apps are developmentally appropriate and most fail to teach in ways preschoolers need to learn.

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Having taught internationally since 2003, Megan Kelly loves to share her experience and enthusiasm with her students in hope they'll become more globally minded and curious people. Here she shares strategies she uses her classroom to open the world up to middle graders.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2018

When it comes to contextual grammatical errors, built-in spell checkers wont probably be of much help. Detecting grammatical mistakes entails a deep analysis of the syntactic structures making up a.

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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 28, 2018

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Assumptions can cause a lot of issues in the work that is done by educators. They can be used as a detriment or to your advantage. Think of these negative assumptions. Parents don’t want education to be any different than their experience. Teachers don’t want to change. Students don’t want to learn. Starting with these assumptions, even when you might see a bit of evidence to support it, will not lead to anything positive in helping people move forward.

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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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Teacher Tech

OCTOBER 28, 2018

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Ever since we had the opportunity to review KiwiCo’s entire line of educational subscription crates, we’ve been waiting to see what new product they would come up with for this holiday season. The wait has ended. […].

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EmergingEdTech

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 28, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast, I’m interviewing Dr. Travis Bristol on how we can attract, support, and build relationships with teachers of color … and why that’s so important for ALL teachers AND kids. . My guest today is Dr. Travis Bristol , Travis is a former teacher and currently works at UC Berkley. A big part of his research agenda is centered on practices and policies that support teachers of color.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

“Stay out of jail!” That was the subject line of an email I received shortly after I started in my new role as CEO at Achieve3000. I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are. The sender was one of our implementation managers, who wrote me about his experience bumping into a student at his district’s juvenile court school.

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