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Helping Kids Be Healthy and Whole While Learning from Home

The CoolCatTeacher

Kim Schonert-Reichl is an expert advisor for the WE organization’s WE Schools program, which is accessed by over 18,000 schools across North America – with a special emphasis on social and emotional learning and mental wellbeing. Her research on the Roots of Empathy was profiled on the PBS Newshour special , the American Graduate.

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Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Research says that when students are engaged in service-learning, their immune system, heart rate and sense of well-being improves dramatically. Children are happiest when they feel a sense of purpose.

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TCEA 2019: How One K–12 Principal Put Google Classroom to Work

EdTech Magazine

Neeb, the principal of Williams Elementary School, and Tickle, a digital learning specialist and Google Certified Trainer, presented “The Whole Ball of Wax: A Place for Everything,” on Monday. Amy is managing editor of EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education. Everything is housed here,” Neeb said. “I by Amy Burroughs.

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Social-Emotional Learning Implementation in a School District

edWeb.net

CASEL , The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, defines social and emotional learning (SEL) as the “process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.”

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

” This means I can say, “I learned this at the War College.” When talking about the 3,500+ ads, Wired Magazine says, “What made these ads so deceptive is they rarely looked like traditional political ads. Digital Citizenship with Social Media: Participatory Practices of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Education.

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A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

Edsurge

Specifically, he tried to get into some of the learning and student management systems built by Blackboard and Follett, which are two of the most widely used edtech systems in the country. I think schools could use this to add useful links, like the student handbook or the school calendar. Learn more at www.edgilityconsulting.com.

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Girl Scouts against the world

The Hechinger Report

The 1920 handbook presented homemaking as just one option for adulthood, along with working as a nurse or a naturalist or in defense. El-Sheikh thinks it makes a difference when girls learn about science in Girl Scouts instead of through another kind of club or at school. Before Girl Scouts sold cookies, they sold Liberty bonds.

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