The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content. Upper right: green (work alone) / stripes (work in groups).

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Auditory learners prefer to process information recited or spoken to them, via either live lectures, group discussion, or audio playback. For example, at many post-secondary institutions, a teaching space is considered to be a Smart Classroom if it merely comes equipped with nothing more than a microphone, computer, video projector.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 19, 2016

In a previous blog post titled “ Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model ,” I described many of the reasons I use the Station Rotation Model in my secondary classroom. StudySync has a huge digital library of media and texts ranging from historic speeches to poetry to excerpts from novels.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

I do a Substack called The AI School Librarian that gives examples of good tools and how to use them in schools and libraries. A group of us took this advice and made it our own. Elissa Malespina, AI and Librarians Then, Elissa shouted out her fantastic substack on AI for School Librarians. Highly recommend — Gail Donahue, Ph.D.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Create teacher-specific classroom libraries. Group digital books for topic or theme sets. Our secondary reading intervention teachers are excited about using Sora’s digital library to support and develop literacy in their English classes,” stated Javier Hernandez, ELA TOSA at Montebello Unified School District in California. “Our

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

She started the practice during COVID-19 lockdowns, when she couldn’t get to a library or coffee shop to work among other people as she had done in the past. Our writing center does ‘writing Saturdays,’” she says, which invites anyone to join an online study group. I’m an extrovert,” she says. She asked not to use her full name. “It

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Have a great classroom library. In the show, I talked about teacher Emily Hardeman (@ EmilyBHardeman ) sharing her story of kids loving the reading intervention group she's created for them. She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

Gale , part of Cengage Group, is giving educators a new social space to exchange ideas and share best practices. About Gale Community For Educators Gale Community For Educators is an online community designed for K-12 educators, with an emphasis on secondary education. FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. Learn more at [link].

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

It’s more about providing students, individually or in a group, with different learning options or providing accommodations to help them learn more effectively.[11]. If a student might work more efficiently in a quieter learning environment, for example, you could allow them to complete a project in the school library. Sounds familiar?

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2021

billion in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding into our education system. School reinvention teams and communities should be able to adapt and adopt models developed elsewhere, particularly ones that are equitable, rigorous and evidence-based (and codified in the model libraries described below).

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2022

Tampa, FL – July 14, 2022 – The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has partnered with Vector Solutions to provide all school districts in the state with free access to Vector’s library of Student Safety & Wellness Courses. Helpful discussion questions, lesson plans, activities, and assessments, are included with each module.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

How many times per day do students hear the phrase “get in groups/pair up”? In fact, even in popular kids or teen TV shows, the group project is used as a catalyst for interaction between characters. increase in the test scores following group-based learning activities. How do you assign deadlines for each group?

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2021

Pointful Education’s suite of CTE and elective offerings are now available to all secondary students enrolled in eCourses through EdisonLearning. Pointful Education is a leader in innovative learning solutions for secondary learners, delivering a robust catalog of online courses for Career and Technical Education (CTE) and electives.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. So far, the digital learning plans have been a boon to educators looking for advice.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

As a result, Reynolds says, students in secondary and postsecondary programs often lack a sense of context or connectedness in their learning. TEL offers its library of general education courses to high schools, colleges and universities, and homeschool parents and organizations. For more information, please visit [link].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Behind the Headlines: News and Media Teaching Ideas The Guardian Foundation offers this collection of educational resources "for teaching students how the media works and how to write and interpret news, and can be used across the secondary curriculum." The visual is based on guidelines sourced from Facebook help center.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

HOUSTON — Colorful college pennants line the walls in a small room at a public library branch in the city's Near Northside. As Canizales discovered on his own, the costs and benefits of various post-secondary pathways are not always obvious. They don’t feel intimidated.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Teach Writing with Tech (closed–only open for groups of five). 20 Webtools in 20 Days (for groups interested in learning webtools from the Structured Learning curriculum ). Google Hangouts–used to meet as a group and discuss topics. I think that’s a large underserved group of teachers. Tech-infused Class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

When the year is up, they will never be charged again and will have continued access to the Facebook group and all club materials. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. Angela Watson: The private Facebook group is where they can get help adapting the club ideas for their unique teaching contexts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Secondary students can investigate what factors determined citizenship through historical case studies centered on both national and local narratives. This is especially necessary for students coming from traditionally marginalized groups who rarely have had intentional and engaging civic instruction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2016

forms/iSiA8Rf4nwkhNaol2 Last week I spoke at the annual Washington Library Media Association conference, called "Hack WLMA." It's just an idea that has gotten lost in the standardization model of education, a model which has increasingly overtaken secondary, and now even, higher education. Library 2.0, + TeacherLibrarian.org

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 8, 2020

In the age of technology, planning for secondary students has become a bit easier as many schools already use platforms like Google Classroom, Schoology, or Microsoft Teams. Set up a private group, using your school's email address. Designate group administrators and moderators. Set the group rules.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

Coach / Library Media Specialist Relationship. In this post, we will look at the relationships that a Coach will form with the following groups and describe how each of these relationships could or should be outlined or thought of from both the coach and the staff members' point of view.: Coach / Building Administrator Relationship.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The courses won in the Secondary Education category, which recognizes products used in grades 6-12. As we head into another uncertain year in education, technology will continue to be one of the key drivers for innovation,” says Tech & Learning Group Publisher Christine Weiser.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

They may also enjoy quiet trips to a museum, visiting the local library, taking music lessons, painting, and quiet reading spaces. Teacher training is similar to influential groupthink, focusing in on design thinking, group discussions, meetings and project collaboration. We can begin shifting mindset toward these biased assumptions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 8, 2020

Instead of giving a formal presentation, would you like to guide a group discussion on a specific topic? You create a group for your topic, come up with a strand tag for your topic / group, encourage your audience (and/or others) to join learningrevolution.com and to submit topic-specific presentation proposals.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? Loertscher | Pippa Davies || Build Your Own Virtual Library Learning Commons: Session 2 of 3 with Anita Brooks Kirkland, Chair | Professor David V. HOST : host a conversation.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

MIT OCW, Rice’s Connexions, my group at USU, and others applied the new Creative Commons licenses to their materials to create open content. This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. ” There were two kinds of educational materials in the world. yellow below). A few observations about the OER and ZTC work.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 22, 2017

In addition to federal support, other STEM education programs such as 21st-Century Community Learning Centers (in partnership with NASA and the National Park Services) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services attempt to reach students in urban schools. However, it is not an easy task. Latinos in STEM Education.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As a Wakelet student ambassador with @cisdSWAT , (a student group at my school dedicated to promoting technology,) I decided to make a post sharing some Buncees I had made. I prefer to use it instead of a computer because I have easier access to the tablet than the library computers. A map made for a Spanish 2 project. Tisha Poncio.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. Explore resources from The GameHERS , Women in Games , and other groups who are intentionally reaching out to marginalized groups.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The authors found that digital media has supplanted consumption of “legacy media” like books and magazines across racial and ethnic groups, gender, and socioeconomic status, so much so that “the percentage of 12th graders who read a book or a magazine every day declined from 60% in the late 1970s to 16% by 2016.”

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement. billion by a group of private equity firms, which split the business into two: Cengage and Nelson.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This year, on September 27, 2017, the American Association of School Librarians made a point to encourage their members to raise awareness about “overly restrictive blocking of legitimate, educational websites and academically useful social networking tools in schools and school libraries.”.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

In this post, we will look at the relationships that a Coach will form with the following groups and describe how each of these relationships could or should be outlined or thought of from both the coach and the staff members' point of view.: How can the LMS Support the Coach?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

During his career as a secondary school computer science teacher, he inspired students to create games and apps for social causes and implemented initiatives to broaden participation in computer science among underrepresented groups. It's not just out there on its own. It's not just the OpenAI website on its own.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 13, 2016

For those of you secondary school folks planning, or planning to enhance, makerspaces in your libraries, check out the news from the White House and act before the April 1st deadline! billion for the nation’s career and technical education programs in grades 7-12 and also in post-secondary institutions.

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