A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2024

The opportunity now presents itself to personalize by ability grouping and a differentiated process. Following a short period of direct instruction with the entire class, the teacher breaks students into groups using data and the class engages in a series of activities during a set period. At Nicki's school, Quest Academy Jr.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2019

Teachers working with younger kids or special needs groups may not want their students posting their work online for a global audience. Once your digital notebook template is complete, share it with students via Google Classroom and select “Make a copy for each student.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 29, 2020

She left the classroom to support K-12 teachers nationally by creating professional development. in Secondary Education from Ball State University. Over the course of her career, she has appeared in multiple publications for groups such as the Shanghai Institute for International Curriculum Research. She received her M.Ed.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

You may already be familiar with parent involvement and engagement, or listening to and working with parents in the classroom. It means embracing the belief that all voices and perspectives are welcome in your classroom,[1] and intentionally providing space for those voices to be heard.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Today Karen Voglesang @NBCTchr teaches children to use thinking routines in her classroom. After participating in Harvard’s Project Zero , she is applying and using the methods in classrooms and with teachers. Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

The Tweet That Started it I get weary of AI hype auto-generated by *gasp* ChatGPT without any real applicability to the classroom. I'm collecting blogs of teachers who are in the classroom actually use AI and have practical, real examples to share. A group of us took this advice and made it our own. Enough of the junk.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 14, 2019

Last year, a group of educators sat down with engineers from a well-known technology company. The first question the educators asked was what the engineers look for in potential candidates. Adaptability was their immediate response.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Learn how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. Then, we’ll share strategies you can use to help your students develop phonological awareness skills—with free rhyming books for classroom read-alouds! Massachusett Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 3, 2024

At this point in the school year, you have had time to establish classroom routines, nurture your relationships with students, and design and facilitate entire units of study. I like to remind students that all of us are learning in the classroom. It’s the perfect time to ask your students for feedback.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 18, 2021

While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Many different apps are specifically designed for the educational market, on various subjects, and for various age groups.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

Right now, many of us are looking for high-quality, easy-to-use materials that can reach students both at home and in the face-to-face classroom. We talked to educator Alyssa Lyons about how to bring real-world skills to your classroom with some powerful curriculum. We look at that middle school age group. VICKI: 00:02.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

With these big picture stats and stories coming from the classroom, teachers need advice on helping students develop reading stamina. Is reading stamina a need in today's classroom? The books literally are broken into text message-sized chunks making reading easier, plus Literal has classroom management features for teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

Robust Networking and Data Center Solutions Power Tech Tools in the Classroom. But over time, the environment became unmanageable, with an aging hodgepodge of resources that threatened to hamper classroom-focused IT programs like the one-to-one initiative. Data Center Upgrades Power Up Classroom Connections. meghan.bogardu….

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Quite often, in the classroom or the boardroom, introverts are forgotten, especially when the loudest person always runs the show. Transforming The Classroom to Support Innovative Introverts. Teacher training is similar to influential groupthink, focusing in on design thinking, group discussions, meetings and project collaboration.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Despite the dramatic impact technology has had on education, many classroom structures and teaching methods haven’t changed much over the years. The SCALE-UP classroom is one example of these dramatic shifts. SCALE-UP is turning many aspects of the traditional classroom upside-down, including how technology is used.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Once a novelty in many classrooms and makerspaces, 3D printers are again flourishing as valuable classroom tools thanks to advanced technology , lower costs and more products and services geared toward K–12 education. . How Teachers and Students Use 3D Printing in Today’s Classrooms. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 06/10/2019 - 09:56.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Today Karen Voglesang @NBCTchr teaches children to use thinking routines in her classroom. After participating in Harvard’s Project Zero , she is applying and using the methods in classrooms and with teachers. Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Listen Now.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

As another school year approaches, teachers are scrambling to set up classrooms, make photocopies of syllabi, attend mandatory meetings, and prepare their curriculum. Make a visual reminder of why you teach and post it somewhere in your classroom where you can see it each morning. 1 Articulate Your WHY and Revisit It Daily.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

I meet with the teacher-led small group and verbally explain my instructions to the students there. Students at the independent station are directed to log into Google Classroom, put on headphones, and play a breathing exercise/meditation video. How do you think small group instruction can help you ? I check for understanding.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

Today, Starr Sackstein @mssackstein shares 5 feedback strategies to supercharge your writing instruction and classroom culture. In today’s show, Starr Sackstein discusses 5 peer review strategies for the classroom including: Having a class culture for positive peer feedback. Peer Feedback in the Classroom Book Giveaway.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

Do you want to design lessons that allow you to work with small groups but worry about keeping the rest of the class on task? Assigned Seats at Student-Led Stations As a teacher, I always had seating charts for whole-group instruction. My collaboration stations consisted of 2-3 table groups of 3-4 students each.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

These can be targeted to select groups, individuals, or the entire class, providing scaffolding for some and enrichment for others. They can look up words they don’t understand and translate the text into a long list of languages that may be their native or a secondary language they are learning. How do you get started.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning aims to lean on technology to do what it does well–information transfer–and free teachers to do what they do well–support individual and small groups of students as they progress toward firm standards-aligned goals. They can also allow students to work with a research partner or in small groups.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

Because this is a group grade a missing introduction will be -2 and lack of step by step instructions will be -3. The students feel like their group work is close. I'm the final authority in the classroom and will be grading their work according to what I've taught them. Add one day to the assignment. Testing the Prompts.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2021

We were impressed by his deep experience, in the classroom and across all levels of learning, and his longstanding commitment to equity for all learners at all levels of the education system. We are excited to work with Jean-Claude as he builds on the foundation of learner-focused initiatives and partnerships that Karen helped to create.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

10 Ways to Move Forward: Learning Gaps, SEL, and Practical Tips to Take Your Classroom Further Post-Pandemic. in Secondary Education from Ball State University. Over the course of her career, she has appeared in multiple publications for groups such as the Shanghai Institute for International Curriculum Research.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

universities have implemented active learning classrooms. Primary and secondary schools are swiftly responding to the evidence in support of active learning. In 2018 a Forbes education contributor wrote that the top learning trend in K-12 classrooms was active learning spaces. To group work and technology-based learning.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Recently, we spoke with three participants of the AI Explorations program to learn about its impact in K-12 classrooms. She was an ISTE-GM AI Explorations program year 2 participant and has since implemented projects from the Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides in her bilingual classes in Leander, Texas.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

However, according to the Edtech Genome Project , 85 percent of edtech spending may be wasted on tools that are either a poor fit or not implemented properly [in classrooms]. There are several ways to source this information, including surveys, classroom observations and walkthroughs, or the use of third-party tools that aggregate usage data.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Superintendent Scott Rocco provided me with a great opportunity to not only work with teachers in his district, but to also push me outside my comfort zone, which has always been secondary education. At the meeting later that day I introduced each of the tools to the group and noted which ones did not require student access to a computer.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

There are various models within blended learning, including station rotation, whole group rotation, flipped classroom, and playlist models, each providing varying levels of autonomy for students. It’s often structured for teacher-led, whole-group instruction but not restricted to this application.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

– Vicki, your podcast host and friendly fellow classroom teacher. And the exciting thing is Danielle, you said that your teacher group is the largest esports organization in the country and you have more than 60,000 players in your group. So we formed an interstate group. Spot a mistake in this transcript?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

At Legacy High School, Tom Schmidt and Ben Johnson, the secondary assistant superintendent, talked to us about how they divided the day into 22 modules, or ‘mods,’ which has allowed for tremendous flexibility. Outside of the main classrooms are numerous flexible spaces that allow for individual work and small group collaboration.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

The past several years have seen a rapid rise in the use of edtech in classrooms, accelerated by the pandemic and the sudden shift to remote learning. The group collectively discussed how they wanted to evaluate their current edtech tools and actively involved everyone in the process.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This is a major shift as the district’s existing preschool program is typically served from one portable classroom at several elementary school sites. All of the classrooms have sliding glass doors that open directly into a protected courtyard, shaded by the tree canopies.

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