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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

To this day I still remember sitting in a district administrator meeting in November 2009 when my secretary called to tell me that CBS New York City wanted to come to the high school and feature how we were using Twitter in the classroom to support learning. This point in time was a catalyst for the eventual brandED strategy that evolved.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. ET for a webinar “ How to Create Powerful STEM Learning Experiences with Technology, ” where I will share more about student collaboration, the engineering design process, and project-based learning.

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Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button

EdNews Daily

This will ensure highest and best practices for an ever-evolving knowledge base. Changes necessary at the basic level of our current system: Eliminate structured classrooms. He has taught in the same school district his entire career with experience at both secondary and elementary levels. The 30,000 Foot View.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

As an Asian American, a former classroom teacher and a resident of Illinois, I got involved with AAAJ Chicago to learn how I could support local schools and districts. Professional development is a key part of building awareness of this absence and a knowledge-base for the educators who will be teaching students directly.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

This more comprehensive understanding of social-emotional health will spur schools to prioritize SEL as a foundational response and technology monitoring as a complimentary (but secondary) facet of student wellness and safety. Principles of learning that are emerging from cognitive science will begin to infiltrate the education space.

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Victims of the system

Learning with 'e's

I worked for 20 years in classrooms, am married to a secondary school teachers, and I have been involved in teacher education for more years than I care to mention. But teachers are under pressure to ensure that all the children in their classrooms perform. Photo by Ramakant Sharda on unsplash Teachers do their best.

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I know one thing that I’m hearing a lot from particularly secondary teachers right now is concerns about their students who are being recruited online by hate groups. They’re hearing some of that type of thinking happening in their classroom and like, “Where did you get that? What is school for?”