Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative assessment data. The third piece to this puzzle is a post-lesson reflection.

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Hapara

APRIL 8, 2025

Providing an equitable educational experience Supporting a diverse community Tmaki College is the original Manaiakalani Secondary School in New Zealand. This platform is where he and other educators place all of their class resources and assessments. Moyes says, I can see you last opened this assessment last week.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

With the current stresses and concerns about generative AI, turning to the vision of a variety of science fiction authors seems a reasonable tool for educators in both secondary and higher education classrooms. For those who wish for some less fictional options, the following books offer good insights into the impact of AI on society.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter My students are writing a collaborative writing document following the principles I share in my book Reinventing Writing. Accuracy Assessment Prompt: “Hey MacMaster Max, are the steps in my [specific task] accurate? But something odd happened.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. These nicely replace the quick formative assessments that are currently so popular (and time-consuming) in classes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We describe what we saw in detail in the new book and, in Chapter 7, articulate a Profile of a Deeper Learning Leader that’s based on empirical research, not just anecdotes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. The Giveaway Contest for Starr’s Book Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to be the Experts. Peer Feedback in the Classroom Book Giveaway. link] And I hope that if you guys follow me on Twitter you could get a copy of this book.

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Neo LMS

MAY 19, 2020

To quote a study on Evolllution , “60 percent of respondents said technology has fundamentally changed post-secondary teaching and learning. Gone are the days of rigid, by-the-book administration — the best institutions are now being helmed by Transformational Leaders. Read more: 4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective, Blogging for Educators, Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help students grow as learners?, She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Assignments Due : Specify any assignments, quizzes, or other assessments that are due for this class session. One Class at a Time In secondary, I have found it is best to generate lesson plans one class at a time. Assignments Due : Specify any assignments, quizzes, or other assessments that are due for this class session.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

We’ll also be giving away of their book Blended Vocabulary for K12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital tools and Direct Instruction and you can enter by clicking here and following the instructions. An overview of the framework in the book. Blended Vocabulary Book Giveaway Contest. Listen Now. FlashCard Stash.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Also the book Making Thinking Visible can help you with these concepts. The Book: Making Thinking Visible. 02:43 Karen V : Yeah, now I don’t know if I can plug a book here but the…. 02:47 Vicki : Go ahead, plug a book, plug away. The Visible Thinking website is a fantastic resource. 02:36 Vicki: I love that.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. At its core, the routine starts with the fundamental act of “seeing.”

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Then, we’ll share strategies you can use to help your students develop phonological awareness skills—with free rhyming books for classroom read-alouds! Because your students enter your classroom with differing skill levels, consider assessing phonological awareness skills to form small groups.[6] What Is Phonological Awareness?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Triple E Framework – [link] TARA – today's sponsor Book: Toys to Tools TPACK Seesaw Bernie Dodge about the misuse of webquests (on Women of Web 2 show) TripleE PLN Book Learning First , Technology Second . I actually read in a book recently that the answer to the teacher shortage was VR. Subscribe to the Show.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. Students might point out elements like the characters, objects, or actions taking place in the picture.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2020

We discuss the changing economics of textbook publishing, analyze who benefits most from bulk book deals, and take a closer look at a new textbook subscription program at the University of California at Davis, hearing from both an excited administrator and a skeptical student. On this episode of the EdSurge Podcast, we examine why that is.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

In a secondary English language arts class, rather than assigning a single text to the entire class, teachers can provide a curated list of books or short stories, each highlighting different themes or literary styles. Students can choose a book or story that appeals to their interests or curiosity.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Our programs assign these lessons based on a student’s placement assessment and their demonstrated mastery. And for older students, you can adjust our book-based study guides to offer personalized lessons on books you’re reading as a class. Students can also select independent reading books from our online library.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Also the book Making Thinking Visible can help you with these concepts. The Book: Making Thinking Visible. 02:43 Karen V : Yeah, now I don’t know if I can plug a book here but the… 02:47 Vicki : Go ahead, plug a book, plug away. The Visible Thinking website is a fantastic resource. 02:36 Vicki: I love that.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2015

Efficiently assess student progress as often as once a week, for more carefully tailored educational experiences. The physical appearance of primary and secondary school classrooms is changing as many schools trade individual student desks for large tables around which students may sit with their laptops and tablets.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. I feel like even if the print books are a tad more expensive, they’re worth it, in my opinion,” Mullins said. “I Second-hand books also reduce demand for new ones.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. Yo Books , a company from South Sudan, aims to deliver and distribute books on low-cost devices across remote regions. Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. They administered surveys to teachers and students and developed assessments that were given when the program started and after it ended.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. My calendar is filling.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with students I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have time for. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. To do this, educational companies need to rise to several key challenges. These challenges will not be easy to meet.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

One of the most impactful activities from my Master’s coursework in secondary English education was a reader biography. As an introduction to our teaching methodology class, our professor asked us to catalog all the books we could remember reading up to the age of 18. Most claimed that there weren’t even books in their households.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through. It focuses on book summaries that present the main concepts of important books in about 15 paragraphs. Bio as submitted.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them. Rather than reading physical books, some children are having stories read aloud to them from a phone. They have underdeveloped social-emotional and fine motor skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

million post-secondary educators are at risk of losing their jobs today by performing one single act: Posting on social media. In her new book, “ Digital Leadership in Higher Education ,” consultant and higher ed scholar Josie Ahlquist defines both. There are approximately 3,700 higher ed institutions in the U.S.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 29, 2014

There was a time when one would expect to talk to many prospective secondary science, math, social studies, foreign language, English, career and technical education teachers. This year, I could count the number of secondary teachers I spoke to on one hand. I recently attended a job fair at a university in our state.

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edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. This edWeb webinar was sponsored by FreshGrade.

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