The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 30, 2023

Humans crave a deep connection when it comes to learning something new, especially if they initially don't see any value in what's being taught or facilitated. We expect this as adult learners, so it goes without saying that our students both want and need this as well. The key is to elicit attending behavior.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2021

” “Students will only do the work if I grade it.” I can empathize with their frustration, but I attribute these behaviors to underdeveloped self-regulation skills, especially in online and blended learning environments. It is not a mental ability or an academic performance skill (Zimmerman, 2002).

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But is the emphasis on a mere letter or number worth it? While grades enforce learning in schools, there is too much stress on “getting an A” and not enough focus on actually learning. But what does it really mean to learn? Critical thinking is not just a skill, but a habit formed to help with problem-solving.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2024

It is absolutely critical that everyone who cares about technology-mediated learning understand this point. It requires changes in the way we think about everything – from pedagogy to supporting infrastructure. I’ve been writing and speaking about this for months now, and I’m not alone.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With the start of a new year, it is always a great time to explore new ideas or try some new methods that may be a bit different from what we have traditionally done. I always think it is a great opportunity to stretch ourselves professionally, especially after a break or during the spring months.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

This competency requires students to take their heightened self-awareness and ability to manage themselves and make responsible choices about how they respond to different situations and interact with others. Exhibit curiosity about situations and people. Think about and evaluate the consequences of a particular choice or decision.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. This includes higher-order thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 4, 2021

As such, the most common messaging has focused on the impending learning loss epidemic that is about to plague virtually every school. It’s not their fault that a pandemic occurred. A more sensitive and pragmatic strategy is to develop systemwide supports for learning recovery through acceleration.

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Neo LMS

MAY 31, 2022

Are you looking for a new activity to challenge students to learn in a new way? ? Since students spend so much time in classrooms, why not plan a quick “escape” to inspire curiosity for learning and engage students? In its essence, an escape room requires that the players escape from some type of a scenario or situation.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course, The Coach.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. I’ve taught in person, online, and in blended learning environments. 1 Articulate Clear Learning Goals and Objectives.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 20, 2021

We learn, and remember for that matter, from experience. Thus, it is critical that the culture in your classroom and school positively impacts learners while adequately preparing them for their future, not our past. Growing up, I heard it a great deal. Think about why you went into the field of education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A topic dear to me–and one I get lots of questions about–is teaching Kindergartners to Tech. Even a decade ago, technology was an extra class in student schedules where now, it is a life skill. Does your school think kindergartners don’t need tech classes? I’m reposting this article for my readers.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

To this day there is just something magical about the beach. It was so interesting that we asked for a rock polishing machine so that we could attempt to make our own jewelry. It was so interesting that we asked for a rock polishing machine so that we could attempt to make our own jewelry. One of them was making jewelry.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, it is now time to focus on the present with an eye to the future. Many difficult lessons were learned during the pandemic, and a few more are sure to materialize over the next couple of months. What are your exemplars of effective remote or hybrid teaching and learning, and why?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

He developed Rapunzl as a financial literacy, EdTech tool to revolutionize how we teach students about investing and to provide equitable access to high-quality, project-based learning tools for students across the country. Podcast Episode Stream by clicking here.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 25, 2020

As the year comes to a close, I encourage teachers to take a moment and collect feedback from students about their experiences learning online in the last few months. I think it’s likely that schools will begin the year online or adopt a blended learning model that allows for fewer students on campus at one time.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I love reimagining a unit or lesson after I have taught it a few times. As I’ve embraced blended learning, I have transformed many of my whole group, teacher-led lessons into student-centered, student-paced learning experiences using different blended learning models. From Whole Group to The Playlist Model.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2024

Today's episode features my friend Alefiya Master, the CEO of MAD-Learn, and the sponsor of today's show. We discuss the transformative role of app-building, collaborative learning, design thinking, and the importance of authentic learning experiences. MAD-Learn is an amazing collaborative app building tool.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

The ability to think relevantly enables them to connect classroom learning with real-world applications, fostering deeper learning and cultivating critical life competencies such as problem-solving, adaptability, and creativity. It also sets the stage for effective personalized learning.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Online learning has become a prevalent part of the educational landscape. It enables learning to continue when distancing is a necessity. It also provides greater access options to students living in rural areas or experiencing mobility challenges. Learning difficulties like dyslexia form part of this definition, too.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2021

When I work with teachers who are new to blended learning, there is often a knee-jerk concern about the time required to design a lesson that strategically blends active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline. When do students enjoy the agency to make key decisions about their learning experience?

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 7, 2022

The two concepts sound similar but mean two different things and you can’t have inclusive learning if you’re lacking one of them. Read on to learn more about accessibility, equality vs equity, and inclusive education. Equality vs equity: which one is more important in achieving accessible education?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. It is in the moments when students are practicing and applying that they encounter obstacles, have questions, and need additional support.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Computational thinking (CT) is the thought process involved in determining how to solve problems in effective and efficient ways. CT is not thinking like a computer, but it is thinking like a computer scientist to solve problems. Design activities that purposefully connect home and school learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2024

Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. It recognizes the importance of enjoyment, curiosity and exploration in facilitating effective learning experiences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years. Imagine you are a mountaineer. How do you prepare for that?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

It was probably worth it — it was a very good episode,” he quipped. from the MIT Media Lab and has been working on design of educational materials for more than a decade, said it’s not that edtech companies don’t do any testing. But one group is often left out of the design process: students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Jackie Gerstein Recently, EdSurge spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms: Dr. Jackie Gerstein, Dr. Brandon Taylor and Dr. Gerstein teaches gifted education at a Title 1 school within Santa Fe Public Schools and graduate-level online courses for Walden and Antioch Universities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. The achievement gap is all about doing the same thing better… [In contrast,] the relevance gap asks us to reconsider deeply what schools teach in the first place” (pp.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 23, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

Then in college, when he started learning Mandarin, a deep love of languages took hold, and he began to make new plans. It began as a way to earn money and acquire relevant experience for a career in speech pathology. It ended up leading to this perfect point,” shares Farley. That’s when everything fell into place. “It

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The United States of America has spent the last three years arguing about the pandemic’s effects on students’ academic and socioemotional well-being. But, as David Wallace-Wells illustrates here , the picture is a lot more complicated: And what it shows is quite eye-opening.

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