The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Years ago when I discussed strategy with a Disney Cruise leader, they told me that people tend to remember how an experience starts and how it ends. Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

Find life balance and get your weekends back From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When I asked you about your problems on this year’s reader survey, here was your answer: I’ll keep writing productivity tips for you. There is a group for elementary (K-5) and one for secondary.

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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. “But Fordham Institute, a think tank, posted on Twitter. “It’s

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2017

A conversation with Connie Hamilton in episode 95 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, Connie Hamilton gives us 5 ways to win the hearts of our students before we start school in the fall: How to connect over the summer. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Pam Moran on episode 241 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 4, 2023

As an elementary school teacher, I partnered with parents and guardians to ensure students completed their assignments on time and that they arrived at school on time. Show students how to break their work into manageable chunks on their own. Invite them to weigh in via survey or through a session. They know their children best.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. Just as important is listening to what your stakeholders have to say. Whether its teachers, leaders or community members, it is important to make sure you have two-way communications.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Jeanne is a teacher (elementary and part-time professor) and Tanya is a university professor (former special education teacher) who loved using technology as a teaching tool. Surveys of student use of iPads report overwhelmingly that students enjoy learning and stay more focused when using iPads (Mango, 2015). Great idea, right?

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2021

Click To Download This Poster If you are reading this blog, you are probably interested in learning how to better organize your podcast, blog, website, or other content creating adventure. Using your elementary tools, write down anything and everything that you need to do and break down each step that is required to complete those steps.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2021

If you are reading this blog, you are probably interested in learning how to better organize your podcast, blog, website, or other content creating adventure. Using your elementary tools, write down anything and everything that you need to do and break down each step that is required to complete those steps. Welcome Content Creators!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Thank you to everyone on Twitter who challenged me to explain numbers that seem to be nonsensical and contradictory.). How can 9-year-olds lose 20 years of academic progress? It’s not that individual children used to know how to read and then stopped being able to read. But the scores also raised many questions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

As I sat at a giant table with 15 colleagues pondering how to make professional learning more personal for our teachers, my eyes drifted to my screen. For our first round, sixteen staff members including teachers, reading specialists, media specialists and para-professional educators signed up by completing a short interest survey.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 7, 2017

I pretty much stalked the authors on Twitter, even direct messaging Lisa! I had surveyed one of our elementary sites to find out their tech needs. I didn’t know how to meet ALL of their needs, but I valued their time during PLCs so I had to find a way to make sure my teachers were engaged (really, actually, EMPOWERED).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 13, 2018

I've blogged about it quite a few times over the past few years: 10 Google Form Tricks Restrict Answer Length in Google Forms My most epic spreadsheet ever Elementary book report machine You have probably created a survey or quiz using Forms. That's great! The cost for this 5 week course is $99. Interested? You can register here !

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A post sponsored by TeacherVision From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Here are several examples of how teachers and administrators are helping students by making a continuous effort to incorporate SEL into their classrooms. Mood surveys. Private feedback.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran on episode 231 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. Twitter: @pammoran. Dr. Moran’s career in public education began as a high school science teacher.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How to enter challenge #2: Share a link to an Applied Digital Skills lesson and tell us how it will help your students (of any age!). Share on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram with the hashtags #GrowWithGoogle and #EdTechTeam. We’ll direct message you on Twitter if you’ve won! Include what and who you teach!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. QUINCY, Wash. — Anchalee responded like the techie she is.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2017

Motivational Monday - episode 91 podcast and blog simul-post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The first thing that nobody ever really told me is just how hard it is to teach. 9 – Not Everybody Who Tells You How To Teach – Can Teach. Teaching is Hard.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders. On the other had, a smaller number of elementary students see Wikipedia as a starting point to discover additional content. Context, disciplinarity and type of use play a role in how we view it.

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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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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

.” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” And we’ve got WritingCity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag # globaled13. History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 28, 2015

A 2013 survey of teachers conducted by MetLife suggests that many educators share Rosner’s strain. Fifty-one percent of teachers surveyed admitted to feeling “great stress” during the school week, up from 36 percent in 1985. Schlechter found a huge community of educators on Twitter with whom she could ask questions and share problems.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

They also draw on the Communities That Care survey data, collected over a decade, to measure students’ well-being. This work is made possible through a social-emotional learning survey from Panorama Education and curriculum from Second Step. How does the survey work, and what do you do with the data? Let me share a story.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We can put our Twitter feed in the communities so that teachers who don’t like social media can still get that information by going into the community on edWeb. We sent out a survey in March of 2020 to teachers and leaders and asked some basic questions. JoAnn Wood has taught many years at the elementary and middle levels.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We can put our Twitter feed in the communities so that teachers who don’t like social media can still get that information by going into the community on edWeb. We sent out a survey in March of 2020 to teachers and leaders and asked some basic questions. JoAnn Wood has taught many years at the elementary and middle levels.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. Possible networks, many with corresponding apps, include: Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo, Instagram, Blogging sites, Youtube, and other social networks. Table of Contents.

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MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

People posting on Facebook and Twitter said Anchalee was too attractive to be an actual software engineer and must be a model. Twitter exploded with selfies of female engineers of all backgrounds and male engineers of color declaring they looked like engineers, too. Anchalee responded like the techie she is.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Twitter not your thing? I’m sorry.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Twitter not your thing? I’m sorry.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

If you want to follow those tweets, you can either track the conference hashtag #ticalsls14 or you can follow the Learning Revolution Twitter account at @learnrevproject. To see the conference schedule in your own time zone, and for instructions on how to click through and enter a session, please go to our schedule page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. So, I’ve included some teaching notes about how to use the tools with students so that we can ensure that students are learning and leveling up. Sometimes devices just help us. They improve something we already do in powerful ways.

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