A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2022

Leading is not easy. I am a believer that leaders are not born but instead develop over time based on both the environment and learned experiences. No matter where you are on your journey, there is the opportunity to grow and evolve. Your potential is not set in stone. It can be unleashed by being cognizant about where you currently are and taking the necessary steps to get to where you want, and others need you, to be.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 18, 2022

Online learning has been on the rise for a while, but it became the norm for almost everyone at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. While most students have returned to in-person learning, many have remained in the online classroom. Some kids who homeschool also solely attend classes online. While there are plenty of benefits to online learning, there are also some challenges – especially for educators.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

While IT departments provide essential day-to-day services, sometimes students, teachers and even other staff may not realize the huge feats these teams accomplish with a relatively small group. They also may not know how these smaller teams are able to provide immediate help desk support and fast turnaround times for repairs on tens of thousands of mobile devices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2022

It used to surprise me that it became the school’s job to teach empathy. Shouldn’t parents do that? The truth is it doesn’t always happen in homes. Since children spend much of their daylight hours in school, it is a logical place to reinforce empathy as a life skill. Edsurge has an interesting article, How to build empathy among students , that shares one teacher’s experiences: Lessons in empathy often are taught with a focus on the individual, rather than the collectiv

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 20, 2022

How can teachers develop a practice of creativity and stay inspired in their classrooms? During a recent webinar, HP Teaching Fellows Brent Christensen , Vickie Morgado , Teena Hine , and Amanda Brace shared tips for igniting creativity in their teaching and learning practice. The webinar, hosted by Digital Promise as part of HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative, highlights four strategies for encouraging creativity in students and how they stay creative in their own work: Practi

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 20, 2022

Helping students continue their education during the pandemic has been a topic of concern since the very beginning. It’s safe to say that it’s still a critical issue and one that needs all of our attention, especially when it comes to choosing the best edtech to teach and engage students. Since edtech is always evolving, attending conferences is the perfect way to find amazing edtech solutions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 21, 2022

Here are some Winter activities to share the joy of winter: 5 Videos to teach about winter. Animal Winter Games. Winter Facts and Worksheets. The Winter Solstice, from PBS–a video for youngers. Winter Vocabulary –a video. What is a Solstice, from National Geographic–a video. What is the Winter Season –a video. Winter Coloring Pages, Printables, and more.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2022

The post Hubs: A Digital Learning Research Strategy to Reach Millions appeared first on Digital Promise.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 17, 2022

I’ve discussed experiential learning in The Imperative of Experiential and Hands-On Learning and the lesson I describe in this post meets the characteristics I described in that blog post: In an effort to engage students both in a STEM activity and learn more about the Olympics, I created a lesson on bobsledding. Standards Addressed. As a STE(A)M lesson, it addresses cross-curricular standards: Next Generation Science Standards (Science).

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

“A digital learning day on steroids.” That’s how Emily Bell, Fulton County Schools CIO, recalls the day in mid-March 2020 when the Georgia district closed its doors and launched into remote instruction in response to the novel coronavirus. Prior to the pandemic, FCS occasionally scheduled digital learning days, when students stayed home and participated in virtual instruction using a teacher- or school-assigned platform.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Christian Miraglia, Educational Consultant for T4Edtech, reminds us that how we used it at first is probably not how we use it now: I Need an Idea, and I Need it Now!

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Education Elements

JANUARY 18, 2022

Erin Conklin’s eyes light up when she talks about the primary and secondary source student book she created for Duval County Public School’s African American Studies elective.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark “We stand on the threshold of important new advances in neuroscience that will yield increased understanding of brain functioning and the way we learn. How we use this new information to teach our children may well be the most important question of our lifetime.” Dr. Pat Wolfe, Author of Brain Matters. Education informed by neuroscience can give new and real meaning to our desire as a nation to leave the pandemic behind.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

Last month, Adobe announced the release of Creative Cloud Express, a product that aims to bring design capabilities to all creators. Web- and mobile-friendly Creative Cloud Express is intended for a wide audience, including K–12 students working on presentations, students in art and design classes, educators and other content creators. DISCOVER: Interactive panels are a key tool for teacher-driven learning in K–12 classrooms.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2022

Student success depends mightily on three pieces: student, teacher, parent. But there are times as teachers we wonder if we are communicating effectively with parents. Teaching Channel addresses this in this fascinating article: 10 Ways to Manage Difficult Families. Middle School Math Teacher, Kelly Ann Ydrovo recently completed Learners Edge continuing education Course 859: Parent Trap: Achieving Success with Difficult Parents & Difficult Situations and outlined her top 10 strategies for

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Education Elements

JANUARY 17, 2022

When I was a teacher in Washington, D.C. I taught a class on local history. Students got to learn about places they had visited and people they had heard about. I’ve never taught a class where students were more deeply engaged in the actual content of the class.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2022

When I first began attending school, my teachers often seated me in the back of the classroom. My parents immigrated from Mexico and were farm workers who lived in Florida and migrated around the country based on the season. That meant I didn’t just attend school in Florida, but also in the states that we traveled to, such as Indiana and Michigan. At the time, I could not speak English, so it was easy for me to be overlooked by my peers and teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

With so much in education — and in the world we live in — still in flux, teachers have spent the past two years adjusting and readjusting to constant change. School leaders learned they must be ready to face staffing shortages, remote and in-person learning, and increasing cybersecurity breaches, all while continuing to deliver quality education. In some ways, the mark of a school system’s ability to adapt or respond with agility comes down to strategy, structure, process, people and technology,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 19, 2022

When testing moved online, it became painfully apparent to teachers how little students knew about using digital devices other than the internet, some apps, and iPads. The focus on online learning, thanks to COVID, has made that even more critical. IT Pro has an interesting article discussing the importance of digital literacy: Digital literacy is as important as reading and writing, Vodafone claims.

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Hapara

JANUARY 18, 2022

Happy New Year from H?para! While we send love to teachers around the world who are continuing to face challenges this year, we’re also excited to share a couple of Highlights updates that we think will bring a little more joy to your teaching and make it easier to teach students who are learning online. . Check out what’s coming soon to Highlights: Add emojis to Highlights messages.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. He usually begins the academic year with lessons on written profiles, but in the fall of 2020, he felt that wouldn’t meet the moment. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

7 Mindsets, the leading provider of online social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum and professional development to K-12 districts and schools, has partnered with middle-market private equity firm Gauge Capital to provide growth capital and to recapitalize the company for rapid expansion. This capital investment will further accelerate 7 Mindsets’ plans to develop additional SEL offerings and resources that empower students and educators across the country, creating lasting cultural transforma

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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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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

This post was originally created and posted on the website TeacherCast Educational Network. The only place to read this as the original content is [link]. No matter if you are an Instructional Coach starting out in a new position, or a school district seeking to create and develop an Instructional Coaching Department, one of the first things that should be mapped out is the various relationships that each member of your school district will have with your coaches.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2022

Following the 2020-2021 school year, educators can look back with pride–and exhaustion–on all we have learned. We have learned to teach in brand new modalities like remote and hybrid learning, foster more student independence, and adapt instruction to a huge variety of learning needs. But one of the most important lessons to come from this pandemic year is a greater focus on the importance of social-emotional learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2022

What is a day in the life of a school principal like right now? Well, it starts the night before when staff start texting and emailing to let you know that they’ll be out. You hope they’re OK and remind them to put the absence in the online management system in the hope that a substitute will pick it up. You go to sleep, though it may be a restless one, given all that tomorrow will bring.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Some people just love to complain. You know them or maybe you are one of them. In an article in the New York Times Opinion section, Samantha Irby claimed, “To complain is to truly be alive.” For her, complaining is comforting, “a hot bath” for her feelings. The problem is that while complaining might (and we say might because the research does not support this, as we will explain) make us feel better, it certainly doesn’t make the people around us feel better.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

JANUARY 17, 2022

As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students. The post Active Listening Strategies For Charismatic Student Conversations appeared first on TeachThought.

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Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

JANUARY 18, 2022

How to turn a Google Doc into a Form. Use Document Outline by Schoolytics Add-on to quickly turn your Google Docs into Forms, Slides, or Sheets. The post Turn Your Docs into Forms and Slides appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. In fall 2021, I took my first steps into the world of ungrading. Inspired by Susan D. Blum’s book “ Ungrading ,” I went fully gradeless in my upper-level Euclidean Geometry class. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. The general plan was to have students describe how they met criteria for success that I laid out, include a portfolio of their work to support it, and decide for themselves what f

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Michelle Robinette Not long ago at Midlakes Schools, our teachers leaned on their own varied backgrounds and experiences that informed their approaches to teaching students to read and write. They aligned well with one another within each grade, but vertical alignment was more challenging. Our rural district serves about 1,500 students, nearly half of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch.

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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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