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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. Even if we go back to face-to-face learning, we will all have to be prepared to teach online, and the best way to do this is to first educate ourselves with research and pedagogy. Learn How 2.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

Classroom management can be a challenge. Classroom Management Tip #1: Build a Partnership With Your Students It’s true that you must relate before you can educate. It’s also true that you can’t always wait until you have that relationship to start teaching. Relationships take time. I want them to join Google classroom.

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Disrupt white supremacy culture in the classroom with these 4 practices

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Perhaps you have read Dismantling Racism’s list of characteristics of white supremacy culture authored by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun in 1999 or read the May 2021 update from Okun. Since white supremacy culture is the air we breathe, this harm is often unintentional. Using data storytelling to disrupt white supremacy culture.

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Classroom meetings: Your most powerful tool for creating a respectful, inclusive class culture

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jennifer Brinkmeyer. How we start the school year communicates who we expect students are and how we expect students will act. An alternate approach, where teachers co-construct community and rules with students, is certainly more welcoming. Some examples: .

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jay Benedith. During my first year of teaching, I was fueled by my passion to close the opportunity gap and my excitement to make it happen. Many people enter the teaching profession with similar high hopes and ambitions! I can’t teach these kids.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Jay Benedith. During my first year of teaching, I was fueled by my passion to close the opportunity gap and my excitement to make it happen. Many people enter the teaching profession with similar high hopes and ambitions! I can’t teach these kids.

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Some parts of teaching are BETTER with remote learning. Here’s how to leverage that.

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I asked teachers on my Facebook page recently to share some of the positive outcomes they’ve seen with teaching remotely in crisis. But I want to start with a response from a teacher named Mar, because what she said really touched me: I’m really enjoying doing remote teaching. Does this make me a bad teacher?

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