The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2019

Mark is the host of the monthly What’s New in Edu Youtube channel, the Teaching Happiness web-series and regular presenter at Executive Briefings, conferences and workshops. In his current role Mark has led the Class of 2030 and Emotion and Cognition in the Age of AI global research initiatives.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

They are working once they have some of their work done for reader’s workshop where they are getting on their computers and investigating that way. They are reading their books during readers’ workshop. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over in Massachusetts, Becky Csizmesia, who was teaching music to elementary students at Silvia Elementary when schools closed, had a similar problem with communication apps. Through the program, five middle schools in Fall River Public Schools will be outfitted with enough Chromebooks to enable at-home learning for every student.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

Whether it is learning from home through online courses, professional development, conference workshops or as a keynote speaker Kasey is a relentless innovator of ideas and a devoted transformer of classrooms and teaching.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

In this file photo from 2014, veteran teachers attend a Blended Learning Institute workshop in Manhattan. What we are doing right now is more of a Band-Aid to say these are tips and tricks to do remote learning now.”. Photo: Alexandria Neason for The Hechinger Report. You have to train in the way you want them to teach.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Using the organization’s personalized learning implementation framework, we diagnosed areas of need and focus while further workshops exposed our teams to design thinking and innovative approaches to personalized learning so that each school team could ultimately create its own instructional model.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

It turns out there are lots of “chat” hashtags — #scichat and #edchat and #elemchat (elementary). We actually presented a workshop together, and it was a really interesting experience to present with somebody cold that you’d actually never physically talked to before. That’s actually quite useful. You might find it useful.”.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Manager of Blended Learning. 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. They don’t have to think in terms of ‘I can’t go on my vacation this summer because I have to attend face-to-face PD workshops.’ It’s giving teachers a break.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Provo City School District , Utah — Improve literacy outcomes for students in K-3 through 1:1 coaching for teachers and leaders at four elementary schools. Districtwide support for social-emotional learning (SEL) through workshops and coaching for teachers and social workers to expand the capacity for support at each site.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Up to 300 educators attended the workshops, which ran every day and sometimes on weekends. Related: Rhode Island teachers trying out blended learning — but without high stakes pressure. When Highlander called, Ramm signed up because she knew teachers outside of her district must be struggling, too. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Adam Green, an instructor at Einstein’s Workshop, shows 3D printers to students learning BlocksCAD, a free 3D-design software developed at the Workshop. In a side room, about a dozen elementary and middle school students were learning computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D printers. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School. Since 1998 I’ve been a pioneer in digital learning, having a classroom website before many classrooms even had internet access. In 2001 I had a one-to-one classroom with Palm Pilots, and in 2005 I started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Other paths to tech know-how include a district’s office of information technology and workshops such as those hosted by Future Ready. And it’s not just districts looking to “save” their librarians that are adopting the new model. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Especially in elementary classrooms, make sure you are complying with all recommended methods for safe storage. What do I do for elementary school kids? leads the science team at Flinn Scientific, including the development of laboratory manuals, online courseware and professional learning programs. Mike Marvel, Ph.D.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Upcoming Opportunities: Are you traveling to Learning Forward Conference in Washington DC in December? Check out my PBL and Technology Integration Workshop.

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Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. They have used these programs, online based, adaptive learning software, with a great deal of success.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Roots Elementary School in Denver, Colo. Students at Roots Elementary are not constrained by grade levels and instead learn in an open area called “ the Grove ” (pictured below).

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 29, 2023

The schedules are particularly great for elementary teachers and secondary students who want a handy visual of what their day looks like. AI-Powered Choice Boards Mini Workshop Level Up Your Choice Boards! Choice boards can help teachers put students at the center of learning, differentiate, and teach valuable skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Public workshops like the wind-resistant building challenge fall somewhere in the middle of the touch depth spectrum. In another planned Fab Lab workshop, kids will make balsa wood gliders by choosing different shapes for wings and fuselages. Read more about Blended Learning. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In this model, teachers can no longer attend a workshop and receive credit for merely being there. Instead, they must take their learning back into their classrooms and try it out, submitting evidence, receiving feedback from peers and refining their approach. Micro-credentials have the benefit of being rooted in classroom practice.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 14, 2018

Through the cohort, I have learned how to provide blended learning. Because of the EdTechTeam Teacher Leader Summer Cohort I feel that I have become a courageous leader by providing a Parent Technology workshop, Staff PD on Google Docs, and opened my classroom to a district Tech Tour featuring FlipGrid. Angela Barnett.

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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. We had a workshop already around how to incorporate agency by design—basically maker thinking capacities around what they're already doing.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Part 1: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Reading. I enjoy learning from all of you. Check out my Booking Page.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They are well into their journey to bring blended and flipped learning to all classrooms. Saint Stephen’s College invited me to share my direct experiences with their teachers and conduct large and small workshops with their teachers to inspire and brainstorm possibilities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. STEM Workshop – If you are at Pete and C in Hershey, Pennsylvania check out the STAR Educator Discovery Preconference Workshop.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

- Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. When the staff came back to school that fall, the workshops began.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Shout out to all of my friends with Northside ISD in San Antonio, specifically at Thornton Elementary and Rudder Middle Schools. You cannot attend a workshop and come out equipped to address the issues in an ongoing fashion. But first… Shoutout. I was there recently delivering staff development instruction and we had a blast.

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Buncee

MARCH 12, 2019

I took a leap, well out of my comfort zone, and I began to learn and share at technology education conferences around the country. I present the Blended Writer's Workshop Model with the International Center for Education. I am fortunate to be able to share Buncee in my "Rock the World with Writing Workshops."

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Jeffrey Tsang and Samir Bolar co-founded Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) in 2013 with funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Learning Accelerator. This included hands-on learning experiences, workshops and online modules. In fall 2016, ASCEND will expand the prototype to the entire elementary school.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Learning Menus Can Be Used with Any Age Group. I have found that menus and choice boards tend to be more popular among elementary teachers, but I used them in my middle school classroom, and now I use them in professional learning workshops with adults. Any grade level can use learning menus!

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