The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

Parents desire to be in control of what their children learn about the world and when. Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students. A September of 2022 article from Edweek included an interview with Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

Today, Dr. Desiree Alexander tackles three of those issues: distance learning, hybrid learning, and digital equity. She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

From Digital Promise : Schools, libraries, and classrooms have traditionally been a place for the consumption of information and ideas. The process is cumulative and each piece adds richness and detail to the story world, such as character backstories and secondary plotlines. See Biography Bottles With Makey Makey for how to do this.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

If you can adapt your instruction to reflect your students’ needs and learning preferences, you can make class time more effective and help students become more engaged. In this article, we’ll go over what differentiated instruction is and how using this learning strategy can provide your students with the resources they need to succeed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI. I do a Substack called The AI School Librarian that gives examples of good tools and how to use them in schools and libraries. AI and machine learning experiments from Google.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

How to Recognize and Encourage Your Young Introverted Entrepreneur at Home. They may also enjoy quiet trips to a museum, visiting the local library, taking music lessons, painting, and quiet reading spaces. Provide students with different options for how they want to learn. Create Student-Centered Classrooms.

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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. I capture these 4 key pieces of information on their name tents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

If that isn't bad enough, UNESCO found that more than half of children and adolescents were not even learning worldwide. Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Have a great classroom library. Learn More.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Some may come to your classroom with existing knowledge, while others may take a little longer to reach their learning goals. Letting students adjust their learning and explore projects they’re interested in will ensure that they retain new information and have fun at the same time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own. Texas got rootEd’s attention, she said, because a new education finance law , HB3, includes funding to encourage post-secondary enrollment that could help support their efforts there. The post How to raise rural enrollment in higher education?

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Waterford

MARCH 26, 2021

Let’s look at what the two-generation approach to learning is and how to put it to work in your classroom. Helps families help their students practice learning skills. How to Practice the Two-Generation Approach in Schools. Next, ensure that they have resources for at-home learning.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

If you’ve ever found yourself in Baltimore and walked into Katie Dell’s classroom, you would see students personalizing their learning experience by choosing from an array of activities that are designed to help them work toward their learning goals. Demonstrate your Powerful Learning skills by earning Micro-credentials.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 9, 2022

Now that the third school year in a row has been disrupted by COVID-19, many students are struggling with academics and other issues that make it difficult for them to focus fully and enthusiastically on learning in the classroom. During a recent edLeader Panel , district administrators from across the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Linear algebra is at the heart of how the car learns to drive itself,” says Jamthe. Learn to Program More Than Just Python Python is the most commonly taught language in secondary schools, and it’s the language used in TensorFlow , the popular open-source machine learning library—which is good.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

This summer, Ask a Tech Teacher is holding five Summer Learning classes : Tech-infused Teacher (Certificate edition for CEUs or grad class for college credit ). 20 Webtools in 20 Days (for groups interested in learning webtools from the Structured Learning curriculum ). Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

With the widespread use of social media platforms and the ubiquity of news stories, teaching students how to critically evaluate sources and sift the good from the bad becomes a pressing pedagogical necessity. Students will get to learn how target vocabulary items are being used in real life contexts to create meanings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. Toward the end of his secondary school experience, though, he shifted to “healing in the broader sense,” reading more deeply in the humanities. I think a lot of those human skills are learned in relationships.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities. Bringing cultural diversity into your classroom instruction can revolutionize the learning experience for your students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Teaching technology is a difficult profession because people learn in different ways and at different rates. However, one thing that can make it easier for students to learn is for teachers to include instructions on basic academic skills like vocabulary, keyboarding, digital citizenship, and research. How to Teach Research.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Students model how professional product teams work together to create prototypes for authentic users. Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. Interested in learning more? Preparation sets up students for success.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. Across the region, schools have moved classrooms to the cloud in what’s become a massive experiment in distance learning, impacting local and international schools alike. Here in the U.S. Well, sort of.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

Not having a clear idea of what you are supposed to do and having poor grades as a result of teamwork can snowball into a lifelong frustration with learning in groups. Read more: 5 Reasons e-learning is perfect for introverted students. When done right, learning as a team works. How do you assign deadlines for each group?

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

During the edLeader Panel, “ Utilizing ESSER Funding to Implement PBL + STEM Initiatives ,” a panel of educational peers engaged in a lively discussion about how to best invest funding from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) in high-impact project-based learning (PBL) and STEM initiatives across the nation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

Go to everfi.com/coolcat to learn more and sign up to get a virtual swag bag full of free goodies to get the school year off to a great start. Stay tuned to learn how EVERFI can empower you to bring real-world skills to your students, even if you're short on time.

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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." Except that I went to a liberal-arts college so many years ago, and this radical idea of self-driven education and learning was actually the mission of the college. Library 2.0, + TeacherLibrarian.org

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

Coach / Library Media Specialist Relationship. They are there to learn how the teacher teaches, how the classroom runs, and what their goals are in working with their students. The Library Media Specialist / Coach Relationship. How can the LMS Support the Coach? Coach / Building Administrator Relationship.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

I’d venture to say that most of us could stand to learn a little more about ESSA and its potential for school libraries and the communities we serve. After eight years without a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), ESSA becomes law with references to school libraries and librarians.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

Learn about the 40 Hour Workweek Club for Teachers. Angela Watson: It’s not about working a 40 hour week–members choose their OWN target number and determine how to allot those hours throughout the week. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. You might too! Join the program.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum?

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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. Online Platforms Parents Facebook is where parents already are and the learning curve for most is non-existent. Find out how they provide learning for students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

Across China, primary and secondary schools are announcing dates for the long-awaited re-opening of classroom doors. We haven’t been informed how to make them up, and I’m worried that it will cause a delay of my graduation,” she said. Obviously, the library and laboratories are not available as well.”

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

What’s the best role for synchronous teaching and learning during a pandemic? Over the past few weeks the switch to wholly online learning has been represented by live video meetings. Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

They are there to learn how the teacher teaches, how the classroom runs, and what their goals are in working with their students. From this point, the Coach and Teacher can formulate a plan of action for the Teacher to learn how to create new and dynamic lessons for their students.

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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.”. We must keep learning first. Dereck McCoy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 4, 2020

We have five Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" is on hiatus, "Thrive in EDU" is doing two again this week!). Times are US-Eastern Daylight Time--to see the schedule in your own time zone, and to get the links to attend live in Zoom, please use the SCHEDULE page on the Learning Revolution site. See you "online!"

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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. It’s not that the publishers don’t know how to digitize materials,” he adds. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’” For openly-licensed materials, there’s Lumen Learning and OpenStax.

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