2016 Elementary Maker Movement 
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
She has authored three books on how to integrate technology into the elementary music classroom. She is the recipient of the 2005 TI:ME Teacher of the Year, 2016 NJ Master Music Teacher, 2016 Governor’s Leader in Arts Education, and the 2017 NJ Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Awards. Maarten, and Australia.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab. But despite the work of on-the-ground educators like Day and Taylor, the maker movement in K-12 schools is far from perfect.
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The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 22, 2021
Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019. Games4Ed facilitates collaborations between educators, researchers, game developers, publishers, and policymakers to further the use of games and other immersive strategies in schools.
User Generated Education
JULY 2, 2017
Both of the elementary schools where I work have general consumables for educators (and I believe it’s true for most schools): xerox paper, butcher block paper, crayons, scissors, tape, markers, rubber bands, papers clips. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making?
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 29, 2018
I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 22, 2018
A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.
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