Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I tried to BYOD when I was in college and the reactions of my teachers were mixed – some were totally open to it, while others were a bit cautious. In some educational systems where bringing devices to schools is a school offence, there has to be a change. So why not encourage students to use their devices as tools for learning?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I once worked at a high school where the phrase “give dignity” was tossed around like candy off parade floats. Teachers, let’s not forget to give one another dignity.” So I stayed quiet and worked hard. Some of the kids I taught became social workers, computer scientists, engineers, and yes, teachers. Eventually, I did.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

While the fate of humanity did not rest on her pulling it off, Australian English teacher Sarah Gunn faced a daunting task. With the class in the middle of an exam, “I couldn’t waste time flipping between videos,” says Gunn, who is also the school’s director of teacher performance and development. “I I really needed a quick process.”

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

The student data covered by FERPA includes any files, documents, or records in other formats that contain information directly related to a student. Other systems include a Learning Object Repository for curriculum content and resources, as well as a collection of productivity tools used for collaboration, presentations, and other purposes.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Students can earn prizes and badges as they work through MobyMax and can set their own daily goals. As a teacher, the continuous progress monitoring makes formative instruction that much easier. Really helpful when you are working to meet the needs of a lot of different students!

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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. However, you do NOT have to do ALL of these strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

You’re all working together?” They examined work and eavesdropped on kids, then filed out to huddle in an empty hallway, where it was their turn to answer some questions. They examined work and eavesdropped on kids, then filed out to huddle in an empty hallway, where it was their turn to answer some questions.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 15, 2015

Every teacher wants to be able to make his or her classroom environment the optimum place for learning, interacting and engaging. By keeping them focused teachers minimize offtask behaviours in their students. Also Unplag is launching a survey to create a better teacher lead LMS (assignment management system, actually).

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Then, in teams of three or four, the students reviewed prisoners’ files and ultimately presented them to Innocence Project attorneys, with a recommendation to either champion a prisoner’s case or take a pass. But does it work? Afterschool activities also offer a system that supports teachers.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 22, 2016

This post is based on the latest episode of my weekly podcast, Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers. The first step in overcoming procrastination is to identify a goal or outcome for your work that you care deeply about. Maybe you want to have all your files cleaned out and organized so you spend less time digging around for things.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

But Montessori’s direct work and many of her writings pertain to educating young children up through elementary school, so it is harder to find high schools, especially public ones, that have adopted the model. In their eighth-grade year every student worked on a “Change Project.” Courtesy Barb Scholtz).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

The kindergartners, with their cartoon backpacks and cornrows, filed out first, followed by the first through fifth graders. Four years ago, when district leaders asked Ashley Park parents and teachers if they wanted to go back to being an elementary school, their answer was an emphatic no. “The This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Students, teachers, and organizations will get online to celebrate global collaboration as back-to-school season begins in the northern hemisphere. Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. Register here to get updates and information.

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MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

The kindergartners, with their cartoon backpacks and cornrows, filed out first, followed by the first through fifth graders. Four years ago, when district leaders asked Ashley Park parents and teachers if they wanted to go back to being an elementary school, their answer was an emphatic no. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This new weekly blog post / email is replacing the regular email I have sent out for the last couple of years for the now-defunct Host-Your-Own-Webinar program (I still have hopes of resurrecting that near-to-my-heart program, and when that happens we''ll wrap it into this weekly missive). November 2 - 4, all online, all free. The Classroom 2.0

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Previously , I wrote about the tension surrounding book choice in schools from four main parties: parents, teachers, students, and admin. I want to preface again that my context is different from many of the writers of teacher blogs because I work at a private Christian international school with an American curriculum in Asia.

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Libraries Handbook Policies Study 93

Evelyn Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

education system. Source: NEPC Inequity Across Districts : One of the profound injustices in our system is the glaring inequity across school districts. Decreased Teacher Morale : Our educators shape the future, but their morale has taken a hit in recent years. Stat Spotlight : Research indicates that teachers in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. And we are working on that.” At Ronald D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

He never lost what Cindy Dawkins taught her four babies to hold tightest to: the belief that all things work together for good. When their mom died of Covid pneumonia, they joined more than 140,000 children in the nation who lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid between April 2020 and June 2021. Jenny, 24, is the eldest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. After the 2005 storm, in a state effort to reinvent the city’s schools as charters, the school board fired nearly all of the city’s public school teachers, most of them black.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2019

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Jen Bengel explains the workshop model, how to create mini-lessons, and how to get students excited about books. She spent 10 years in public schools as an elementary teacher and a literacy coach and has spent the last 7 years as a full-time curriculum developer and professional developer.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

You may know their main product, the Brightspace Learning Management System. Edthena is, “The complete solution for teacher growth, leveraging classroom videos for reflection and best practices.” We talk about how the teachers using their product record themselves. Video-Powered Professional Learning.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

You may know their main product, the Brightspace Learning Management System. Edthena is, “The complete solution for teacher growth, leveraging classroom videos for reflection and best practices.” We talk about how the teachers using their product record themselves. Video-Powered Professional Learning.

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 52

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. Classroom facilitator. Database analyst?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

I believe it’s possible to be an great teacher while still having a great personal life. Prioritizing tasks is the foundation of using your time effectively and working more efficiently. That doesn’t mean you ignore the work and let them down, it just means you choose a more convenient time to accommodate them.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

" Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. ." No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

And the truth is that there’s really no such thing as zero-waste and the term only exists to remind us that we’re working toward a circular system, not that we should be beating ourselves up about every time trash enters our lives as it inevitably does. –Heidi Rose. Mindset is really the most important word.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 20, 2016

Cloudschool is a FREE personal learning management system (LMS) that aims to unburden teachers by combining the tasks of lesson planning and lesson delivery on one beautiful platform. In addition to videos, you can easily add photos, PDF files, links, worksheets, and more to create engaging lessons and assessments.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

CERTIPORT & EC-COUNCIL ASSOCIATE SERIES CERTIFICATION CURRICULUM ( certiport.pearsonvue.com ) & ( www.eccouncil.org ) Certiport announced a certification program for secondary schools and higher education in partnership with EC-Council. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET VERSION 1.0 ( www.casio.com/home ) & ( classpad.net/us ) Casio America, Inc.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I’m glad there are so many educators here; I always feel safer in a room of teachers! Teachers have been taking quite a beating lately. But teachers are my heroes. Teachers, particularly those who teach in our most disadvantaged communities, need to be protected. He said, “You’ve had a wonderful education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Though her dream was to be a working artist somehow handling poop, eating bugs, wiring explosives and scraping chicken guts off the ceiling turned out to be the beginning of her real dream job. The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit is in its final week. Join for free to watch the current sessions and the upcoming interviews here.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” Via The New York Times : “Judge, Citing Inequality, Orders Connecticut to Overhaul Its School System.” ” Via The New York Times : “Judge, Citing Inequality, Orders Connecticut to Overhaul Its School System.” More on Bill Clinton and Laureate Education in the for-profit higher ed section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

his teacher, Mrs. Rigwell, exclaims, extolling oil’s benefits to Pete and fellow students like Sammy Shale. A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. It was reprinted with permission.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” These have all been separate articles in each series.

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