The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Elisabeth Bostwick encourages us to make progress From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Creating the culture in your classroom can help you be a better and happier teacher and can help your students learn better and be happier too.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 8, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Leadership in this season is difficult. He was selected as 1 of 117 Future Ready Superintendents in 2014 and 1 of 50 Superintendents as a Personalized Learning Leader in 2016 by the US Department of Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Kristen Nan talks about risk taking that makes sense in education From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Take risks in education to build relationships, have difficult conversations, and make progress. Kristen Nan, a third-grade teacher, co-authored a book with her assistant superintendent.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In June, I began working formally with the Alliance for Excellent Education as Lead for Future Ready Librarians. At Future Ready Librarians , we pose two essential questions: How can librarians support Future Ready Schools? How can librarians and libraries become more Future Ready?

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 5, 2015

Note: This blog post represents my personal views and not that of my employer, the Alliance for Education, or that of the US Department of Education; the two organizations that are running Future Ready. Parent Engagement in a Future Ready School It’s no secret.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

For example, students can see what elements make up a grass block or use helium to make pigs fly, a “Minecraft” blog reported. Here's how you can enroll your teachers in a free future-ready teachers badge group.). Break Out of the Digital Mold. Gamification allows teachers and students to connect.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Principal Brad Gustafson, author of Reclaiming Our Calling: Hold on to the Heart, Mind, and Hope of Education , inspires us to find our reason for teaching and being an educator again. He co-hosts UnearthED ; a popular school leadership podcast.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 9, 2017

A growing number of schools are recognizing that they must start transitioning their learning environments toward deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and robust technology infusion.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This, in turn, gives them valuable future-ready skills for the workplace and in their daily lives. The post STEM vs. STEAM: The importance of the Arts appeared first on NEO BLOG. Artistic and creative activities as part of a STEAM curriculum can also be a more accessible route to understanding difficult-to-grasp STEM concepts.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Shannon is an incredible leader, a dynamic librarian, an advisor for Future Ready Librarians, and most importantly, an amazing person. All for the kids we serve, Future Ready Schools® is a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education, my home organization, and is located in Washington, D.C. The work is hard.

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Tom Murray

MAY 26, 2017

I’m excited to have Ross and Erin join me in just a few weeks for this FREE Future Ready webinar on #HackingPBL. Murray , Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools ® , Alliance for Excellent Education. Check it out! All for the kids we serve, Hacking Project-Based Learning. Thursday, June 15, 2017.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Future Ready Schools ® Invites You to a Participate in a Webinar. Tom Murray , Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools ® , Alliance for Excellent Education. Mobile devices provide new options for students to create as they make a movie, record a song, or publish a blog post to capture understanding.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

In a recent comment to one of my blogs, Andi Jackson shared a strategy for maximizing the short Wednesday schedule called “Power Hour.” ” As I was responding to Andi’s comment, I realized that I had to write this blog post and share some of the myriad ways that teachers can use a wonky Wednesday.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

By bringing in entrepreneurial skills, we can provide students with opportunities to develop essential socio-emotional learning (SEL) and future-ready skills. . appeared first on NEO BLOG. There is so much potential for creativity with NFTs. While there is a lot to know about NFTs, we don’t need to be experts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 3, 2017

Episode 119 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Tom serves as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education, located in Washington, DC. Today Thomas C. Enter the book giveaway contest.).

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Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

Acquire future-ready skills that will help them in their careers. . Virtual communication is a future-ready skill. Students can even create and maintain a team blog on the group. Groups can have different features such as calendar, news, resource area, forums, chat, blog, etc.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2019

Yesterday I blogged an update on the 7-day Innovation Academy that we are conducting for 72 school leaders in North Dakota. Today I thought I’d share that we are about to launch a new initiative in Virginia. The first round of the Virginia Is for Learners Innovation Network will launch in March and run through December of this year.

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MindSpark

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog, we'll explore why drones are essential for students to learn and how they can help develop future readiness skills. However, they are also an excellent tool for K-12 education, providing hands-on learning opportunities for students to learn STEM concepts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Brianna Hodges on episode 154 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I am very honored to serve as one of the two national advisors for Future Ready Schools , representing the Instructional Coach strand. Please blog. But you have a passion.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Kristen Mattson on episode 242 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. So Kristen, in all of my years of blogging, we’ve been talking digital citizenship, but it still seems like so many people are just lecturing to kids about this topic. Blog: DrKMattson.com.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

FRS (Future Ready Schools). This is a resource rich program supported by the non-profit Alliance for Excellent Education , and is specifically designed to offer districts an actionable, stepped program that they can follow to become a “future-ready school”. Structure: Research-based Foundation. Level: K12. Till next time.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 29, 2018

Attending a large number of conferences each year, and running a number of Future Ready events, I have the opportunity to work alongside so many educators from coast to coast. When we work together, our brilliance will only be capped by our own egos and pride. So how can we best leverage our collective expertise?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

To help overcome this, we have adopted the Future Ready Schools Framework , a systematic approach to scaling innovative digital learning practices while promoting long-term sustainability. In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. Digital Learning Teams.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 28, 2019

Furthermore, there are learning apps such as these that enhance the students learning experience and equip them with future-ready skills they need to apply for jobs of the future. The post How to use technology to better prepare students for the workforce appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Kathleen McClaskey on episode 229 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There are some things that I have on my blog, that we’ve done before on UDL that we’ll link to, and personalized learning and that sort of thing. But where’s a place for teachers to start?

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Fortunately, non-profits such as EveryOneOn and Future Ready Schools continue the fight so that all children, particularly those that are traditionally underserved can connect to a brighter future. Connectivity is a lifeline for progress.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. Building future-ready skills with personalized recommendations. All educational acts should and usually do revolve around them.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 24, 2016

The shift to Future Ready Schools with blended and digital learning is dramatically changing the role of the school leader and requires focused attention on the critical importance of school culture in a successful transition. Such leadership is foundational to creating Future Ready Schools. Future Ready Schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Vicki Davis, full-time teacher and IT Director in Camilla, GA, and founder of the Cool Cat Teacher blog and podcast : In many ways, inquiry-based learning has been around since before Sir Isaac Newton wondered why an apple fell from the tree and hit him on the head. Indeed, many great innovations happened from questions being asked.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 21, 2024

Why Math Education Must Evolve: A Look Back and a Path Forward In our first blog, My Daughter Doesn’t Need My Mother’s Math Education , we probed on the shifts needed from the 1963 mathematics education model, highlighting how that model fails to meet the needs of today's students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Back in October I blogged that CASTLE and I were launching a 7-day Innovation Academy for school leaders in North Dakota.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This blog post includes a full transcript, a pinnable (or printable) graphic, and the podcast episode. Blog: [link] Twitter: @Katie_M_Ritter. Lumio sponsored this episode. Katie finished her Ed.D. For contact information, please see visit [link].

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Battelle for Kids

JULY 10, 2017

But, it does seem to be great at both acronyms (CTE, PBL, EDI, ELL, SPED, PLC and so on) and catch phrases (21st century learning, personalized learning, future ready). One of the more popular catchphrases is College & Career Ready. Education may not be consistently good at many things.

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Neo LMS

MAY 19, 2020

Now, more than ever, higher education needs leadership that reflects its new avatar: leadership that’s not just future-ready, but future-forward. Education technology and the future of Higher Ed. The post Education technology and the future of Higher Ed leadership appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How to reach every learner every day from a teacher who is doing it From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. He expects 100% engagement from every student every day (and gets it.) @engineerteacher , A STEM Success Story: North Carolina Future Ready Schools. Leave Us a Rating and Review.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning.

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