The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sixteen types of games, Google Classroom and LMS compatibility and auto-grading From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The matching column resources are perfect for kindergarten and lower elementary teachers working with phonetic sounds and word recognition.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I learned about self-care strategies and how to balance because we wear so many hats. How do I care for myself when I want to care for everybody else? Understand Your Stress Triggers and How to Deescalate Yourself When It Happens. [00:05:17]

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. In a normal year, the exercise would have been scaled back by this point, Woll said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter For me, this eighty days of AI journey is about looking at every AI tool that might be helpful to teachers. How to join the waitlist. I hope this quiz helps you learn how to use commas correctly. Correct: I am going to the store if I have time.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Fostering engagement — knowing your students, knowing how to make the material sing to them — is where the art of teaching is on full display, says author Katie Novak in UDL Now! , is a collection of ideas for so-called choice assignments, where students are given the autonomy to choose how to express their knowledge to their teacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Immediately, we can start to help new teachers and help each other in the process. The research gives us some insight into how each of us can help other teachers thrive. Interestingly, he also admits that he almost quit teaching this past school year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn Fuini-Hetten on episode 259 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2022

Body Confidence Virtual Field Trip Grade Bands: 3-5 In this Virtual Field Trip, students learn from their peers how to get smarter about images they see online, build strategies to fight weight-based bullying and teasing and learn how to be kinder to themselves and each other in this Virtual Field Trip! Twitter and?

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

Check out her lesson in my lesson plan database, Model it Up with Google Sheets , where she uses Google Sheets to teach her students how to make five. You will learn how to get everything set up in your classroom for success, including the dreaded login process, device handling, digital citizenship, and workflow. Join the conversation!

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2019

On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, MIND Research Institute hosted an event for thought leaders to gather and have deep conversations around how to change the face of math education. It was a day full of speakers and exercises designed to help inspire creative and rigorous problem solving. May 23, 2019. May 22, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

When my colleagues found out that my husband, an elementary school teacher, had asked me to join his school for Career Day, they were incredulous. I talked about the links between diet, exercise, and brain health. You can follow him on twitter @jason_r_dc. You’re going to talk to 7-year-olds about being an Alzheimer’s advocate?”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Cuomo, who appeared to question this week whether students have to be in classrooms at all , drew immediate fire from many educators and parents, and his secretary later wrote on Twitter that “nothing could ever replace in-person learning.” Nagler, who became superintendent in 2009, had lots of ideas about how to do that.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MAY 29, 2016

Read a Book : The number of flipped learning books is multiplying and can offer up some great advice on how to best implement it in your classroom. Flipped Learning for Elementary Instruction (Bergmann, Sams). If you don’t know what a forward board is, then watch THIS video and then go to [link] and learn how to make it.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

How could we make them better? – Getting set up with Twitter and our new hashtag. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) How could we make them better? individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The scariest moments in elementary school for most adults of a certain age involved being summoned to the blackboard. Matt Wiseman’s fourth-graders at Frankton Elementary School know nothing of this trauma. Using a computer, she believes, allows them the focus more on what they write rather than how they write.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Suzanne Creswell on episode 244 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students have reasons for how they behave, particularly if they have learning differences and learn in unique ways. That’s why we like exercise. That’s why we like walking.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Cynthia Leck of the Center for Public Research and Leadership shared new impact measures for harbormaster/intermediaries and how the approach evaluating that impact within a network. HawkinsatKVEC if we believe that kids learn differently, we have to think about how to measure differently #edclusters16. Prioritizing Equity.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 26, 2015

While some of the resources aren’t incredible (simply using Google Translate), and some of the languages fairly obscure (Welsh), the list is impressive if for no other reason than to demonstrate how much is actually out there if you do a little digging. The Big Welsh Challenge Can you learn Welsh? Video Channels.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Fortunately I can show you as well as tell you how well these ideas are working out at one high school: I guarantee that you are going to have a better feeling about future leaders (because you will meet one) after viewing my video interview (below) with Wettrick’s student Paige Woodard, or hear what her classmates have to say.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Learning happens through relationships,” Marcus said, yet teachers aren’t taught how to foster those personal bonds that allow for connection and genuine learning. Teachers are divided into small groups and are encouraged to reframe how they interpret their mistakes and to develop healthy coping mechanisms, like exercise or yoga.

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iLearn Technology

JULY 10, 2015

I learned about SumBlox just a few weeks ago on Twitter as a share from ISTE from @michellek107 and @sumblox. ” How to use SumBlox in the classroom: These blocks allow students to visually represent and discover math relationships. SumBlox also are a fantastic introduction to algebra concepts.

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MindShift

APRIL 13, 2015

These are years marked by tantrums and meltdowns — palpable reminders that young children haven’t yet learned how to regulate their emotions. You can also model the connection between mood and healthy eating, exercise, and sleeping: “Sometimes when I’m frustrated, I eat a healthy snack or take a nap to help me feel better.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Steve Dembo on episode 222 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Read How to Use Padlet. A pioneer in the field of educational social networking, Dembo was among the first to realize the power of blogging, podcasting, Twitter, and other Web 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon on episode 190 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today we talk about the conference, what people can expect from the conference and how to sign up. Our handle for Twitter is @globaledcon. Twitter: @elemenous.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

One French historian called the photos “heartbreaking” on Twitter , and wondered how we could even call it school. Recess teaches kids how to collaborate, to resolve conflict, to negotiate. In short, how to learn together. “We Others went farther, calling it downright “dystopian.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers are finding mindset exercises benefit certain kinds of students and not others. A little mindset intervention can move the needle, but not equally for everyone,” David Dockterman, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Education, wrote on Twitter. “The how part is hard. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2014

[link] Introduction to Mind Amplifiers June 11 - July 10, 2014: A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter. More information at [link]. One Week Calendar All events are listed in US-Eastern Daylight Time. For more information, click here.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2018

This exercise will help students understand both the educational and training aspects of the career. For more on types of infographics and how-to ideas, please see Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Infographics as a Creative Assessment.) Awareness of how work relates to the needs and functions of society Career Planning 9.

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Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2016

At Cantiague Elementary in Jericho, NY, Tony learned how to work with an entire community to create a student-centered learning environment that functions as a safe haven for children. We quickly saw that when the students exercised their voices, on some level they positioned themselves as partners in the school experience.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

Upon reflection, here’s what we surmised: students don’t need just the opportunity to collaborate; they need to be taught how to collaborate well. How Can We Improve Collaboration? All summer I thought about why we failed and how we could succeed. You can connect with Eileen on Twitter at @EFPTech.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. . –Jean Eddy, CEO and President, American Student Assistance The term “science of reading” has become shorthand for phonics in many cases.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”. She was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, in Yazoo County, and now teaches there, at Bentonia Gibbs Elementary. Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

He’s the head of the education team of the News Literacy Project , a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age. Join me as I talk with Peter Adams. We’ll begin by talking about why information (and misinformation) is more prevalent.

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