Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the template I created for teachers , there are two additional slides with sentence starters for elementary and secondary students. Ultimately, I wanted my students to actively engage with the texts we were reading so they would understand and retain the information. I explored a few options and decided to make a change.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2019

We asked them to be passive recipients of whatever information came from the teacher or textbook. We gave them few opportunities to question the reliability or validity of the information that we spoon-fed them. So we shouldn’t be surprised that we now have an information / media literacy problem with our adults. Related Posts.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Teachers can use this step to encourage students to assess the credibility of their evidence and select information that effectively strengthens their claims. These questions might explore nuances, seek further information, or address potential counterarguments.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Secondly, develop an informal walk-through schedule with your leadership team, mandating at least five walks per day for each member, and track visits and improvement comments on a color-coded Google Doc. For example, elementary will conduct walks in secondary to provide feedback and vice versa.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

Students, especially now throughout the last couple of months that they've heard it more in their homes, they're thinking about it more as they are thinking towards college and careers is the ability to make those informed choices about money. And so our first one is the ability to make informed choices about money. VICKI: 04:34.

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Learning Course Elementary Resources 531

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

See, Think, Wonder Thinking Routine “I see, I think, I wonder” is a simple yet versatile thinking routine that can be used in elementary and secondary classrooms. This critical thinking process encourages them to draw inferences, identify patterns, and make informed interpretations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

This post will share the ten trends that we’ll be covering and some information on our speakers. What Trauma-Informed Learning Concepts Should Every Teacher Know? She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Morningside College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the University of South Dakota.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2019

There is significant data proving the positive impact music has on a student’s ability to retain, learn, and articulate information. This is seen especially in reading – without an improvement in literacy alone, our country will not be able to properly support this generation.

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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. When students have a voice in their education, they become more engaged and invested in the process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One Class at a Time In secondary, I have found it is best to generate lesson plans one class at a time. Elementary teachers have a different format and prompts below that they can use and refine. If I try more than one class, total confusion ensues inside AI, and sometimes AI will even change the template format.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

I Used to Think…Now I Think…Thinking Routine The “I used to think…Now I think…” thinking routine helps students reflect on how they used to think about a topic, subject, or issue and how their thoughts have changed as a result of a learning experience or engagement with information (e.g.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Among the key findings: High-quality principal preparation and development programs can improve principals’ feelings of preparedness, teacher satisfaction and retention, and student achievement.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation. hands-on basic training, on-demand how-to videos, etc.)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

In 2020, the DOE introduced the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, a signature part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to help schools improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and return their students back to the classroom. For more information, please visit ActivePure.com or call 888-217-4316.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2021

She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. Contact information: mssackstein@gmail.com. You can find all of the books here: [link] ) Sackstein co-moderates #sunchat as well as contributes to #NYedChat. MsSackstein on Twitter. Starr Sackstein , MJE Facebook Fan page.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

As an English as an additional language (EAL) support teacher at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand, I co-teach in four early elementary classrooms, supporting multilingual students who are developing their academic proficiency in English. So, I put out my feelers. But we took it one step at a time. It started with coffee.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. The “connect, extend, challenge” routine fosters deep reflection and comprehension.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today we see a number of dual enrollment programs, for example, and secondary students in P-Tech programs , the Bard Early Colleges , and other initiatives are graduating with college credits. Schools are supposed to help students master the dominant information landscape of their time. Building the plane while flying it.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Parent empowerment involves both informing and organizing parents so they can participate fully in your school’s community. 8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Nokali, N.E.E., Bachman, H.J.,

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Data also shows an increase in chronic absenteeism resulting from anxiety, most notably at the secondary levels. A strategy wall at Richmond Street Elementary School to help students develop their emotional intelligence skills. Dr. Alice Lee Principal, Richmond Street Elementary School. Next Steps for our District.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Moreover, since effective AI solutions require large amounts of information, maintaining student data privacy is an ongoing challenge. In 2020, the AI Explorations program released a four-volume series of guides for elementary, secondary, elective and computer science teachers— Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

More problematic, these issues also include how to educate students who cannot learn online, such as students with special needs, English language learners and early elementary children. Educational leaders should be less risk averse, seize opportunities and try out new ideas, even if you only have 50 percent of the information.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

This is especially evident in the elementary grades, which on average only teach social studies 30 minutes a week. Secondary students can investigate what factors determined citizenship through historical case studies centered on both national and local narratives. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 27, 2019

A version of this post was originally published in Teach Secondary Magazine , July 2019. said Erin Ermis , a fifth grade teacher at an elementary school in Wisconsin, regarding her experiences with Alexa-powered devices in her classroom, at ISTE just last year. She was like another person in our class.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Content : How the student will access the information. Process : The method of the activities students use to understand the information. Product : Projects or homework that ask the student to practice or apply the information. Learning environment : The space where the student is learning the information. Tomlinson, C.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Diagnose the Need through Focus Groups Across the Community, Including Faculty and Families A small charter school in western Massachusetts, Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School , honed in on addressing the challenges with their current student information system (SIS).

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EdTech Learning System Groups 266

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

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2020

As a research-informed school, we surveyed all our constituencies—teachers, students, parents and caregivers—and a certain alignment emerged. Lunch was lengthened so students could eat with siblings, parents or guardians—or online with classmates for elementary students, which proved extremely popular. How did we know?

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Learning Elementary Secondary Assessment 218

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

It partnered with Google for a massive, AI-powered analysis of 40 million messages in its app to find how parents and teachers are exchanging information. According to the analysis, only 31 percent of messages sent by educators and parents of secondary school students met those guidelines. At the elementary level, it was 19 percent.

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Analysis Guidelines Secondary Report 203

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

The newly reimagined Empire State Information Fluency Continuum (ESIFC) was introduced at the NYLA-SSL Summer Institute this week. Her blog post shares: In 2019, SLSA approved re-imagining the ESIFC to adapt to the changing information, education, and technology environments, as well as the increasing diversity in our student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” Many students struggle at the secondary level with decoding, typically multisyllabic words, so those longer words that they’re encountering in science text, for example, or in social studies text,” Wexler said.

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Secondary Training Elementary Report 145

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

This week I had the pleasure of training a group of elementary teachers on blended learning strategies. Elementary teachers, who are teaching all subjects, may combine reading, math and vocabulary activities on a single board. how they will engage with the information (learning modality). Student choice. Assessment.

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Blended Learning Assessment Secondary Elementary 150

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

They are bombarded with multiple sources of information—from family, peers, and society—that send constant and often conflicting messages about how they should act, what they should like, and whether education should matter. Elementary and secondary students filter data differently. Data As A Distraction. Commit to equity.

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Data Secondary Assessment Learning 158

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2022

So maybe I have a picture of or a graph or something, that information, that's where I start. In middle school, our teachers told us we don't need bullet points on slides because if you need bullet points on your slide, you probably have too much information. It will help all of us with processing information.

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