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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Dr. Kristy Custer is one of the pioneers of the video gaming movement in schools. Over the past 20 years, she has helped lead the CHSM team to state and national honors including a Crystal Star Award for Dropout Prevention Schools, Civic Advocacy Award, Promising Practice Award, and being named a National School of Character.

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Music Teachers of Excellence with the CMA Foundation

The CoolCatTeacher

She oversees advocacy efforts for the CMA Foundation at the state and federal level, which includes working with more than a dozen community partners to elevate the cause. Kerns works with each and every grantee organization to provide strategic planning, compliance, project management, and community impact.

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Is This Video App Safe? Mozilla Privacy Report Offers a Look

Edsurge

Like tens of thousands of other schools, Berkeley Unified School District in Northern California picked Zoom as its video-conferencing tool to support its remote instruction plan. The district has been quite open about how challenging this migration to video distance learning has been for their teachers,” says Boyd.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

The center’s first floor will provide flexible learning spaces, including a Skype room for video conferencing with outside experts, a quiet zone for research and a talking zone with soft furniture for group work and discussions. One spot will house tables where students can connect their tablets to a large video monitor.

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Activating the Community to Support Education Innovation

Digital Promise

Student advocacy reinforced Kettle Moraine’s implementation of CBE and expanded opportunities around personalized learning. For example, students lobbied for things like more internet access by using social media to post personalized learning videos on YouTube. She further mentioned that “people love to be celebrated.”

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New Approaches to Instructional Technology Coaching

Digital Promise

Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day. podcasts, videos, newsletters, infographics, narrated slides, tutorials, one-pagers), offering flexible meeting times, and leveraging various asynchronous communication methods.

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Inspiring Action through Storytelling on Earth Day 2019

Digital Promise

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, these actions have taken many forms, from advocacy to direct action to storytelling. The team 3D-printed their props, including a flock of sea turtles, and then spent their summer break storyboarding and shooting their video. Churchill High School students painting their 3D printed film props.

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