A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

For learning, consider curating data weekly and present at an upcoming staff meeting. Creating or further developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is also essential to access 24/7 ideas, strategies, feedback, resources, and support. These suggestions should be clear, straightforward, actionable, and timely.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

teachers in mid-March to collect and share best practices, ideas, and common approaches to remote learning. More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Elicit feedback from colleagues, students, parents, or your Personal Learning Network (PLN).

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

Putting the ‘Person’ in Personal Learning Networks While educators building communities to learn and share ideas isn’t new, today’s personal learning networks (PLNs) offer educators the chance to hone their focus and build their practice in specific areas of professional development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 20, 2019

Her many areas of expertise include deeper thinking with technology, authentic learning, curriculum design, and performance tasks and assessments. She spent thirteen years as a technology coordinator and business and computer teacher. Disclosure of Material Connection: This episode includes some affiliate link.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2020

They viewed technology as a “toy” or “free time,” Ben Klaus, principal of Jose Ortega Elementary, said during a virtual presentation at CoSN2020, the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking. “It The personalized learning program helps with that. It was to browse the internet to play games.”. “We

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2020

They viewed technology as a “toy” or “free time,” Ben Klaus, principal of Jose Ortega Elementary, said during a virtual presentation at CoSN2020, the annual conference of the Consortium for School Networking. “It The personalized learning program helps with that. It was to browse the internet to play games.”. “We

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Two years ago, IT Services Director AJ Phillips needed to persuade her school board to purchase new network infrastructure, so she tapped her prior experience as an elementary school teacher and presented a show-and-tell. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where K–12 schools can turn to secure funding for personalized learning programs.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Wells Elementary has been taking the feedback that I provide for over three years and recently asked me to create a session that focused on strategies for opening and closing lessons. I was excited about this opportunity as I was going to have the honor of meeting with all teachers by grade level and present newly created content.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. Here is the third part of our series:] Here is the third part of our series: Teacher Tip #3: Personalized Learning Why ChatGPT for Personalized Learning?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

As of late, I have been working with quite a few districts on personalization through a variety of blended learning strategies. My experience in this area began over three years ago, thanks to having the opportunity to coach teachers and administrators at Wells Elementary School. Challenge accepted!

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. My personal learning network is key to my success with integrating robots into our activities,” Innes says. “I to teach kindergarteners the basics of coding. “It

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

While solutions such as IBM ’s Watson Education and Google ’s recently announced Google Cloud Platform storage and AI initiative offers the potential for schools to deliver personalized learning strategies and offer analytics-based performance insight ; how K–12 institutions leverage these tools is entirely up to them. .

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2024

The opportunity now presents itself to personalize by ability grouping and a differentiated process. Here is where station rotation can be an invaluable asset as a data-enhanced teaching strategy to close learning gaps by maximizing the time available in class. This approach benefits students at all levels.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Over the past year, we’ve collected dozens of stories from educators and school leaders around the country, each at varying stages of personalized learning implementation in their schools and districts. At Fusion 2018 , we’ll be examining personalized learning for the whole learner through three distinct lenses: Vision.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2022

Graphic Design helps us present in more interesting ways, teach better, and communicate better. Episode 789 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Graphic Design for Educators Sadie Lewis - Director of Instructional Design + Personalized Learning. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 12, 2020

Personalized Learning. Shifting the focus of teachers from material to students as individuals can make personalized learning possible. It means that each individual has to be taught according to student’s learning types. A teacher presents material to a student in the most effective and understandable way.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I recently had the opportunity to work with an incredible group of elementary educators from Nauset Schools on Cape Cod. The teachers generously agreed, and below are their examples of inspiring yet practical examples of project based learning at the K-5 level! Learn more here! By Tom Driscoll ( @TomDriscollEDU ).

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

They are a cost-effective choice and make differentiating instruction and personalizing learning easier. For example, on OER sites, educators can find different lesson plans for the same learning goal to help them differentiate instruction. Lower elementary math: 2.NBT.B.7 Presenting content or skill to learners (I do).

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

As part of the Learner Variability Project, which “seek[s] to uncover strategies to meet learners where they are across varied contexts and needs,” Digital Promise’s team is examining the key factors for different grades and subject levels that impact student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The bestselling children’s apps are developmentally inappropriate , and many popular digital books contain distracting features that limit children’s story comprehension and vocabulary learning. If the material is low quality, children’s heightened motivation for content that is presented as crafted uniquely for them is wasted.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2018

This year’s theme— Personalized Learning for the Whole Learner —aims to help school leaders from around the U.S. see how their peers are shaping learning environments for students and educators. How do school leaders make personalized learning work? Listen to three leading practitioners share their approaches here.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Teachers who make learning come alive will always find a way to make their lessons captivating. Even Ancient Romans associated the concept of elementary school ( ludus ) with play ( ludere ). Divide your class into groups and assign responsibilities such as research, design, creation, and presentation. Conclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Some school leaders have been turning to an innovative solution: allowing children at home to learn remotely along with their in-person classmates. That sounds simple, but it means that teachers have to track students who are only present in Zoom squares while watching others at desks in the room. teaching work force.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous post I have been working on a educational technology presentation for principals in a NJ school district. Below I will break down the main components of my presentation in an attempt to provide a toolkit to be used by other administrators, or any educator for that matter, across the globe. Learn more here.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 11, 2018

Yesterday, I met some of my 650 elementary students and their parents. I’ve included these tips below along with slide presentations, posts, and tons of resources. Check out my presentation, Community Building with Get to Know You Activities & Icebreakers. 10 Tips from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Back to School Resources.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light. Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It glosses over the herky-jerky reality of learning and the nuanced practice of teaching. Which is what stirred teachers at Orchard Lake Elementary School in Minnesota back in 2011. The teachers called it Impact Academy and piloted it in the fall of 2013 within Orchard Lake Elementary. Paul-based Bush Foundation.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The above quote embodies so many of the schools and districts that I have been fortunate to work with over the years, including Wells Elementary (TX), Corinth School District (MS), Davis Schools (UT), Randolph Howell Elementary (TN), Juab School District (UT), and many more. To put it bluntly, I was in awe.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 11, 2018

Yesterday, I met some of my 650 elementary students and their parents. I’ve included these tips below along with slide presentations, posts, and tons of resources. Check out my presentation, Community Building with Get to Know You Activities & Icebreakers. 10 Tips from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Back to School Resources.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Feedback from User: The final design is presented to the users for their feedback. We ‘re also going to be sharing more details including redesigning makerspaces in the classroom in our presentation at ISTE 2017 in San Antonio on Monday, June 26 11:30 to 12:30. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners. Please join us!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. Crew is like family.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

If teachers and students work together to assess, track, and reflect on the learning happening in the classroom, teachers will have the time and energy to innovate and personalize learning. I wrote this book primarily for secondary teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

We just created this venue for anybody to come on and present — and for anybody else around the world 24 hours a day for several days — to watch those presentations. So we have sessions around the clock , and they all get recorded because people can’t always watch at the same time that someone can present.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Artificial intelligence holds significant potential to address key challenges in education, particularly in enhancing student engagement and facilitating personalized learning. Parhizkar, a science and technology specialist at Alief Independent School District, discusses how AI can be used to personalize learning for students.

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techlearning

MAY 17, 2018

I like this as a starting place for late elementary because there is so much I can do with it. Root's functionality for late elementary starts with the app. Code.org This seems like a no-brainer, but Code.org is a great place to start with late elementary coding because it's free. Code.org is known for there Hour of Code games.

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2017

WILDER, Idaho — Eight years ago, the principal of Idaho’s Wilder Elementary School, Jeff Dillon, made a tough decision: He pulled his children out of the district high school to send them to private school. “I My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. Dillon said.

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