The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. During my years of working in elementary education, I spent time as a classroom teacher as well as a school leader, all with the Sioux City Community School District in Sioux City, Iowa.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Managing budgets, developing memos, attending meetings, responding to emails and phone calls, and other tasks also consumed a significant portion of my time. For learning, consider curating data weekly and present at an upcoming staff meeting. When a teacher struggles with assessments, provide or co-create an example assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Below is an overview of the benefits of using choice boards and the various types of boards you can design to meet a range of different objectives. Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. However, his formative assessments have a twist — students are all answering DIFFERENT math questions. Meet Next Generation Science Standards. Formative assessment on the iPad that Works.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. District 205 has given us the opportunity to have an instructional coach at each elementary building.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

Asynchronous learning provides much-needed flexibility that better meets the needs of both students and teachers by relinquishing the familiar rigidity of school. Provide a few assessment options and allow students to select which one is graded. Below are some of the most practical strategies to develop asynchronous tasks.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. For many adults, assessment was for your grade [when they were in school].

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

It warmed my heart when Amy Rhodes, the principal of Bevins Elementary, shared what she had recently implemented in regard to feedback. We meet in PLCs every Wednesday and were able to use this time to discuss and have teachers share out their Canvas pages and virtual lessons. The result was “Feedback Fridays.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2024

Choose tools that offer customizable settings, allowing teachers to adjust the difficulty level and content to meet the needs of their students. Look for apps and programs that cover key concepts and skills taught in early elementary grades, such as phonics , early literacy , basic math skills and foundational science concepts.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Frequently, the media center is also the most public space for the community , where school meetings, board meetings and PTO meetings are held. That extends beyond one-to-one Chromebook initiatives and personalized assessments to learning environments. You want to ensure that it’s a place your community can take pride in.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Consider giving students a series of assignments over a period of time where only one or two, not all, will be assessed for a grade. ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S.

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

You can encourage families to join your school’s family-teacher association or arrange virtual family-teacher meetings for families with transportation issues. Family partnerships formed during elementary school years build a strong foundation for future student success and continued engagement.[6] Family Engagement = Student Success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You may find a program that meets some of your requirements but not all and wonder if you should settle. The catalog include topics relevant to today’s K-12 education offered in a variety of approaches that meet teacher needs. assess success at completion. Elementary Math. How to get started. Writing Prompts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Indeed, it’s so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

No matter if we’re talking about kindergartens, elementary schools, high schools or colleges and universities, the need for a learning platform that offers personalized learning experiences for each student is all too real. Assessments. NEO Brochure: Assessing students using NEO. Educational institutions need to keep up.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Along with teaching these gifted elementary students (who I teach for multiple years), I teach graduate courses for Walden University. Of course, I went a little crazy as my elementary students just finished their sustainable city model. One of the courses is Innovative Curriculum.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

They deliver lessons during the actual school day, but the rest of their responsibilities–designing lessons, grading, attending meetings, and communicating with parents–invade their lives beyond school. However, it was not until I changed the way I approached feedback, assessment, and parent communication that I had an epiphany.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2023

I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms : Choice is the great differentiator that helps meet the needs of all learners. I also encourage you to check out these posts from Wells Elementary (TX), Snow Horse Elementary (UT), Juab School District (UT), and the Corinth School District (MS). Be flexible.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Typically, Wednesday is a short day for students because teachers are attending an all-staff meeting in the morning before students arrive or in the afternoon after students have gone home. When I coach elementary teachers, we use audio recording tools in apps like Remind or Class Dojo to record audio updates about student progress.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

After meeting my wife in 2002, I moved to Staten Island, NY and resided there for thirteen years. We have also used our Digital Practice Assessment (DPA) process to help them determine where they are at, but more importantly where they want to be for their learners. Now back to my story. To be honest, she was leaning on staying put.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Wells Elementary has been taking the feedback that I provide for over three years and recently asked me to create a session that focused on strategies for opening and closing lessons. I was excited about this opportunity as I was going to have the honor of meeting with all teachers by grade level and present newly created content.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 27, 2017

I’ve found a tool that can help with inquiry-based learning, nonfiction reading, and meeting standards: Kids Discover Online. There are several reasons why Kids Discover Online is a fantastic website for middle and elementary science, history, and ELA teachers: Students can visually explore curated topics, finding connections in a safe space.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

This works particularly well for a series of stations designed to help students review key vocabulary, concepts, or skills before an assessment. Teachers may also use formative assessment data to identify a “must-do” station for each student and ask them to start the rotation at their “must-do” station.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 16, 2020

Lauren Williams, a fifth grade teacher in California, works in a predominantly Latinx and Black K-5 elementary school, where almost half of the students are designated as English Learners (ELs). Conducting a Needs Assessment. Meeting the Challenges of the Moment. No one knows what the school year will look like this fall.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Turns out — and not really a surprise — the cost of the digital devices was minor compared to the cost of the websites and webtools required to meet goals. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

Home learning environment is an important factor to ensure each student meets their potential in school and beyond. As a former elementary school teacher, I remember the pressure the test can sometimes put on students, parents, and even teachers. It also means it’s time for their annual state test in math and reading. Early Reading.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

So, when I look at that, I think every elementary, middle and high school should have an esports team. . Schools should be meeting kids where they are, and then try to understand how can to integrate some curriculum around those interests. Students do not speak in “worksheet.” Students do not love just reading a textbook. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements. There is an increased movement towards personalizing the educational experience, practiced with student agency and choice on assessments.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Staff Needs Assessment is by far one of the most important and at the same time, most stressful part of the process in creating an EdTech Integration Plan for your school district. In this post, we are going to learn what a Staff Needs Assessment is, how it should be created, and how it should be shared with your staff.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Making tough choices Later this year, the final round of federal pandemic funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), will expire, leaving school budgets uncertain in many districts. Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This is even more pressing because a significant number of students in the US do not meet reading standards. Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties by David A. Or you could practice a literacy teaching strategy together and discuss your classroom’s progress at a follow-up meeting. Kilpatrick.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

Through a combination of formal meetings and informal, asynchronous communication facilitated by Digital Promise staff, these 30 educators and administrators collaboratively tap into the Digital Promise Maker Learning Leadership Framework to drive positive change in everything from budgeting to lesson and assessment planning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. Digital learning also strengthens each teacher’s ability to meet the needs of each student, regardless of whether they are in the classroom or at home.” But what does that look like?

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User Generated Education

APRIL 22, 2022

As I’ve discussed before, I offer electives to my 4th-6th grade GT students (see Offering Electives to Elementary Students ). Students will design, implement, and assess actions in the service of their individual and collective visions. ( [link] ). They chose paper engineering. A few started making city structures.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Strong coaching quickly built capacity among teachers, and by leveraging their devices in various ways, these schools had the highest student achievement growth in the county on their MAP assessment. Ocala STEAM Academy, Alum Rock Elementary USD, San Jose, California (Chort 4). Comeback School of the Year. STEM Culture of Innovation.

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