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8 Elements of Effective Coaching

A Principal's Reflections

I absolutely love coaching educators in small groups. During these sessions, I get to see firsthand how they are implementing ideas and strategies into practice to grow. While giving keynotes and facilitation workshops is something I love, both lack an on-going component, which is one of the most critical aspects of professional learning that leads to scalable results.

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How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning

Neo LMS

Education is a continuous process that starts even before a child goes to school. It starts at home: the first teachers a child has are their parents. While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Current distance learning settings have made this crystal clear.

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50 Fun Virtual Activities for Elementary School Students

Waterford

Teachers, we know how hard it can be to plan remote activities that are engaging and educational. Luckily, there are plenty of Internet resources available at your fingertips—with options for both synchronous and asynchronous learning-based classrooms. We’ve organized this list into two sections to help you better find what you need. The first section includes 25 educational tools that can help you plan online activities for your classroom.

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Hybrid Hangups: What Teachers Struggle with Most in Hybrid Instruction

EdTech Magazine

K–12 education in the U.S. is all over the board: Some districts are fully online, some are fully in-person, and many have implemented a hybrid model. To learn about the struggles teachers are experiencing, I reached out to educators across the country and compiled a list of the biggest challenges when it comes to the hybrid model, and how teachers are meeting those challenges.

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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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10 St. Patrick’s Day Resources For Your Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day? Try these fun websites with activities for different grade levels, different classes: Puzzle–St. Pat’s Puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s drag-and-drop puzzle. Puzzle–St. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. Physical Education St. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com.

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How to Create Massive Multiplayer Kahoot Games

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Did you know that you can play massive Kahoot games with many students as players? Today’s guest, George Pearce, talks about how he streams Kahoot games, handles security and privacy, fights bots that allow cheating and attack his Kahoot games, and also how he deals with a lag to make game competitions more equitable even when hundreds of miles separate the learners.

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5 Google Jamboard features you (probably) don’t know

Ditch That Textbook

Jamboard is Google's digital white board tool. Educators have flocked to it because it's very visual, it's easy to use, and it's highly collaborative. Teachers are using it in so many ways.as a digital white board for face-to-face and remote instructionas hands-on, interactive digital activities with drag-and-drop componentsas collaborative thinking spaces for small groupsOne of […].

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Tech Tip #133: 10 Favorite Mac Shortkeys

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: 10 Favorite Mac Shortkeys. Category: Macs, Keyboarding.

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4 Social Emotional Learning Strategies to Use in the Classroom Now

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We know that to teach students, we must relate to educate and one of the first things we must relate to is their emotions in that moment. In today’s show, Robin Fox shares four techniques you can use in your face-to-face or distance classroom to connect with your student’s social and emotional lives.

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CoSN2021: How Students Feel About Their Remote Learning Experience

EdTech Magazine

When the pandemic hit in February and March last year, many schools had little room to develop meaningful alternative learning plans or models. This meant students and educators were thrust into a great unknown as school districts attempted to cobble together a valuable virtual learning model with no notice and few resources. Over time, districts improved and iterated on their remote learning setups, and some districts began bringing students back into school, resulting in hybrid learning enviro

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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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New MY World 360° Playlist Premiering at Global Festival of Action

Digital Promise

Leading up to the SDG Global Festival of Action , we’re thrilled to announce a new MY World 360 ° playlist featuring immersive storytelling and design projects from across the globe. Since launching in March 2018, MY World 360 ° has screened 31 immersive stories at UN events around the world. Today, we are proud to add eight new projects to this growing collection of media to inspire positive action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

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Resources to Teach Taxes

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a passionate Economics major in college (which grew into an MBA), I find Econ at the root of much of the world around us. It starts with counting coins in first and second grade and grows up to a peek into NASDAQ and other adult subjects in middle school. In the US, tax day is April 15th. Here are some good websites to discuss what is probably a popular topic in families: Taxes.

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The role of the LMS in enhancing the education experience

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published on February 22, 2021, in eSchool News. The global pandemic has changed the education experience as we continue to live in an extraordinary age of mass school closures and distance learning. Despite the challenges that remote learning has presented for students, educators, and parents across the globe, the learning community has demonstrated great resilience and innovation in the face of disruption.

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Summary of Google's Feb Announcements and lots of Google Edu resources

Educational Technology Guy

This is a resource I created for schools regarding Google's major announcements last month. [link] And here are some more great resources: Google Admin Resources and Tips: [link] Google Resources for Educators: [link] Google Workspace Plus (fka Enterprise for Edu) resources: [link]. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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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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Planning for Change with Data: Lessons Learned from Spring Break

Education Elements

I’m writing this blog during a 17-hour road trip that was supposed to be a 2-hour flight. My husband and I wanted to take our two boys skiing for spring break and have spent the last several months meticulously planning the perfect trip. I booked all of the fun activities, and he dusted off our equipment and bargain shopped for winter clothing. We found the perfect, non-stop flight that would minimize the frustrations of traveling with two young kids.

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How Online Resources Can Help K–12 Move from Skype to Microsoft Teams

EdTech Magazine

With Skype for Business set to retire on July 31, many school districts may need a plan for moving to a new videoconferencing system, such as Microsoft Teams. The software giant has deployed a number of resources to help smooth the transition, including upgrade planning workshops; free, instructor-led training; and FastTrack onboarding assistance. Ed McCallister, who completed the transition from Skype to Teams in 2019 as CIO for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says it’s important t

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AI Is Changing the Workforce. At This District, It’s Changing the Curriculum Too.

Edsurge

Over the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been delivering competitive advantage to businesses across a wide spectrum of industries. By Deloitte’s most recent count , 37 percent of organizations have deployed AI solutions (up 270 percent from 2016) and a majority predict it will “substantially transform” their companies by 2023. The shift may also mean transforming their workforce.

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New Innovative SEL Tool from Aperture Education helps High School Students Build Skills for College and Career

Educational Technology Guy

This is a great tool to help understand high school student social-emotional needs and how to support them with strategies and interventions. New Innovative SEL Tool from Aperture Education helps High School Students Build Skills for College and Career The Aperture Student Portal includes gamified goal-setting and SEL self-assessments offering a research-backed approach to understanding students’ needs Charlotte N.C.

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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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12 Strategies To Build Relationships With Students

TeachThought - Learn better.

12 Strategies To Build Relationships With Students. by Terry Heick. Student engagement is one of the most fundamental requirements of learning. Without an engaged mind, everything else–no matter the quality of the pedagogy or the cleverness of the technology–is futile. And one of the useful ways to make improvements here is by having a strong relationship with your students.

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CDW Acquires Amplified IT

EdTech Magazine

CDW announced in a press release Tuesday that it had acquired Amplified IT, an education-focused consultancy and leading provider of Google services, solutions and software. Amplified IT will bring a blend of technical skills and knowledge to CDW’s K–12 and higher education markets, the release stated. “I am thrilled for Amplified IT to join CDW and build on our partnership that began in 2016,” Tim Lee, president and founder of Amplified IT, said in the press release.

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Let’s Teach Computer Science Majors to Be Good Citizens. The Whole World Depends on It.

Edsurge

Digital technology has become increasingly important in the lives of all Americans, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, which has made many of us even more reliant on computing devices to execute our daily responsibilities. Yet, many social, political and ethical concerns have emerged as the application of technology has grown in daily life.

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IT’s BACK! Google Jamboard Version History

Teacher Tech

Remember new features roll out over 2 weeks so if you do not have a feature wait a little bit. Version history finally comes to Google Jamboard!! 3 Dots Menu To find the version history use the 3 dots menu in the upper right. Version History Remember the bad old days where you constantly “Save […]. The post IT’s BACK! Google Jamboard Version History appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Roses and Thorns of an LMS Strategy: How to Flourish with the Right LMS

Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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5 ways edtech builds cross-curricular connections to STEM content

eSchool News

Cross-curricular connections throughout different subject and content areas help to make lessons more meaningful and relevant for students. Thoughtfully-crafted STEM lessons that leverage technology-rich resources similar to what your students are using outside the classroom are great ways to engage students in interdisciplinary instruction. As a STEM educator, I work with teachers at my school to develop engaging and inquiry-based lessons that help ignite student curiosity and foster their love

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. This week marks a full year since many school buildings around the country closed and the pandemic changed the way our children learn. I believe it’s safe to say that most students haven’t thrived online.

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The Surprise Benefits of Virtual SEL and Mindfulness Learning

Edsurge

As a special education teacher in an inclusive classroom, Christina Ramsay knows that growing students’ social-emotional and mindfulness skills can mean the difference between meltdowns and managed emotions, self-doubt and confidence or isolation and connection. This work of social-emotional learning and mindfulness has to be our foundation because that’s how we ensure we're meeting our kids’ needs.

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Here Is How to Turn Your Spreadsheets Into Interactive Maps

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Awesome Table is a great add-on to use on your Google Sheets to turn your spreadsheets into interactive visualizations. No coding knowledge is required to operate it, it is simple and easy to use.

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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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How to Market Online Courses in 2021 (36 Proven Strategies)

Sell Courses Online

The post How to Market Online Courses in 2021 (36 Proven Strategies) appeared first on Sell Courses Online. … How to Market Online Courses in 2021 (36 Proven Strategies) Read the Post. The post How to Market Online Courses in 2021 (36 Proven Strategies) appeared first on Sell Courses Online.

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Where have all the kindergartners gone?

The Hechinger Report

Annika Dunlap, 5, learns math with her mom, Nahoko Dunlap, 39. The Dunlaps withdrew Annika from online kindergarten after one day. She now attends a private preschool near her home in California. Credit: Nahoko Dunlap. Five years old and already knowing her letters and basic subtraction, Annika Dunlap sat down in late August for her first day of kindergarten.

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4 Essential Steps to Secure Funding for Hybrid Classroom Technologies

Edsurge

The need for new K-12 classroom technology has never been greater. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools are now using a hybrid classroom model, with some students attending virtually and others in person. In this situation, teachers need technology tools that allow them to provide the same high-quality experience for students learning at home and in person.

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Another Great Assessment Tool for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Floop is an excellent feedback collecting tool I learned about from this post by Jennifer Gonzalez. I have been experimenting with it for sometime now and found it really amazing. This is a tool.

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Building the Foundation for a Modern K-12 Classroom

K-12 looks different these days. But one thing remains the same: you need a reliable learning platform that serves as the foundation for teaching and learning––for all students, in a variety of learning experiences. Discover how the Instructure Learning Platform supports today's K-12 classroom through: A central, consistent, connected hub of the digital learning environment.