A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

The convergence of an idea, tool and strategy have led to ultimate success for both Uber and Airbnb. What observable evidence is there that an idea or strategy represents a fundamental improvement over what has been done traditionally in the past? Recently during a coaching visit at Sandshore Elementary School, a part of the Mt.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. The school also encourages teachers to teach each other and share their strategies, says Kimberly Mecham, director of St. They work on any project they want, such as robotics.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As elementary STEAM educators, we have both learned that the best way to teach science is through hands-on exploration where lessons are both rigorous and relative to all of the students in the classroom. Here are two tech-infused lessons that have increased student engagement and brought elementary earth and life sciences to life.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It regularly participates in several different competitions, including ones for robotics and solar cars. This initiative provides support to local elementary districts to help prepare students for high school and college. . “We This is not the first challenge that Flores has presented his competitive engineering team.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

An active advocate of the Next Generation Science Standards, (NGSS), she eventually became Vermont’s Science Assessment Supervisor and has served as an NGSS curriculum reviewer and president of the board of the NSFs Society of Elementary Presidential Awardees.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I did all of this twice, the first week with elementary educators and the second week with secondary teachers (so 8 days total). On Wednesday, we talked about some organizational strategies, leadership behaviors, and coaching techniques – again, more of an instructional leadership focus than just a pedagogical focus.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. Finally, she made it to the charging station and her shift at the learning resource center (LRC) officially started.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2017

If you have another platform, try Draw a Stickman (well-suited for elementary school ages). Robotics integrates all STEAM fields in a way no other subject can. Students get to play with robots, program them to do whatever (well, not quite ‘whatever’) they want, and call it classwork. critical thinking. engineering.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 28, 2019

We’re starting up the year with principal Dr. Sanée Bell, author of the new book, Be Excellent On Purpose, Intentional Strategies for Impactful Leadership. This post is sponsored by Times 10 publications, publisher of Sanée Bell’s new book, Be Excellent On Purpose, Intentional Strategies for Impactful Leadership.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

“Whether students have an affinity for the arts or not, incorporating elements of creativity into STEM education has undeniable benefits , including making STEM more approachable and understandable,” writes Ricky Ye, the CEO of DFRobot, a robotics and open source hardware provider, on eSchool News. CDW VV2 Strategy. Content Subtype.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Now, they are in display cases in the lobby of our elementary school. For their displays, learners used servo socks to make parts of their display turn, micro:bits and servos to make milk carton robots , and Circuit Playground to make a flickering light to put inside their carved pumpkins. Wow, wow, wow! They worked so hard on them.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2019

To best prepare our kids for a tech-driven future, here are five innovative ideas that educators are testing out: Highly-Specialized Elementary Teachers As it stands now, math and science teachers are forced to cover a wide breadth of topics geared towards preparing students for the future.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2021

Children in preschool and early elementary grades are in what Piaget called the “pre-operational” stage. That’s one of the reasons robotics is an effective way to introduce computer science, engineering, computational thinking, and critical thinking—the robot becomes a physical expression of the STEAM concepts that the teacher presents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

This is has been a vital strategy of mine in my 16 years of teaching. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero. So that’s my Go To robot. Vicki: I love that. Leah: We do. Blog: leahlacrosse.blogspot.com.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

The program also includes citizen/participatory science and service learning, environmental stewardship and applications across all disciplines, as well as STEM quarterly challenges tied to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, computer science, and applications, such as security, robotics and games.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2022

From field placement to the critical first three years, K-12 schools and teacher prep programs must implement proven strategies to improve the quantity and quality of support that new teachers receive. One simple strategy capable of delivering high-impact results in this regard is the targeted use of classroom video.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

Vancouver Public Schools hosted a Girls Lead the Way summer robotics camp at McLoughlin Middle School. The camp, which has been open to middle school girls free of charge for the past six years, introduces students to robotics and coding and aims to curb the gender gap in STEM careers by building and maintaining interest at this critical age.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. It was my first full-time teaching job.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Fleming says whether the district sets up a makerspace in an elementary school library, in a middle school classroom or in a high school cafeteria, each makerspace has a unique quality. Why not offer robotics in the makerspace to the entire student population ? CDW VV2 Strategy. Assess the School’s Existing STEM Programs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Coding and robotics go hand-in-hand, and they’re becoming a more integral part of classrooms across the country. Aside from the excitement students muster when they see a robotics kit morph into a controllable arm or a tiny programmable vehicle, coding and robotics offer a little bit more than a fun classroom experience.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Wadler led a walkout at her elementary school to bring attention to the gun violence in schools across the country. Emily Pilloton shares stories of community-focused creative projects and provide strategies and mindsets to bring purposeful making into any classroom.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 14, 2019

This is one of the ideas suggested in my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch Edtech Missions in Your Classroom. Buncee , Elementari , My Story Book , Make Beliefs Comix , Storybird , and Book Creator are free digital storytelling web tools that students of all ages enjoy!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2021

18, 2021 – Starting August 1, CoderZ will once again bring a real-world industry perspective to computer science classrooms through the Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge. The Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge transports students to a virtual Amazon warehouse where they practice coding, computational thinking, and computer science.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 4, 2020

Bersani , a STEAM teacher at Blue Academy Elementary School, used the Codelicious computer science curriculum to teach her fourth-grade students how to write their initials in binary code using beads and bracelets. The robot is mimicking how a computer takes directions from code. For example, Ms.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Bersani , a STEAM teacher at Blue Academy Elementary School, used the Codelicious computer science curriculum to teach her fourth-grade students how to write their initials in binary code using beads and bracelets. The robot is mimicking how a computer takes directions from code. For example, Ms.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A cohesive strategy and innovative implementation of technology can provide a solution. . Artificial intelligence, ‘deep learning’ and robotics are among the game-changing technologies that are beginning to alter the nature of work and workforce demands. That’s backwards,” notes the CoSN report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A cohesive strategy and innovative implementation of technology can provide a solution. . Artificial intelligence, ‘deep learning’ and robotics are among the game-changing technologies that are beginning to alter the nature of work and workforce demands. That’s backwards,” notes the CoSN report.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

So she “pulls it together”, goes numb, and begins to read from her script in a robotic voice: “Step 1: the first step of emotional regulation is…” Teacher stress can interfere with effective teaching of social-emotional learning to students. This video features Breathe For Change’s Two Word Check In SEL*F Strategy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As the visual arts teacher at an elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., I know you love robots, so would you like to build a robot out of cardboard boxes?” Trauma is often linked to adverse childhood experiences, including abuse, neglect and other events that happen to people under the age of 18.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2022

eSchool News connected with Lauren Harter, Senior Educational Developer for VEX Robotics , for some classroom engineering tips. Harter’s work in developing and bringing a series of educational robotic solutions, known as the VEX Continuum, to the classroom is aimed at helping to solve some of the world’s growing problems.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Coral Zayas Coral Zayas is the new elementary instructional support specialist for science in Crowley ISD’s iNetwork of schools. Amanda’s team developed a capstone project for elementary students: AI and Machine Learning for 5th Graders. We don't have to build a robot. Our strategy is a two-pronged approach.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We share these tools with parents so that they can reinforce the strategies at home. Upper elementary students receive formal golf instruction by a PGA-certified golf pro at the country club, creating a great opportunity to learn etiquette and social graces in addition to a lifelong sport they might not otherwise have access to.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. In total, the district serves 29,500 students across 60 elementary, middle, and high schools. Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

At Mary Williams Elementary , we strive to create a similarly magical feeling. Since then, we've experimented with dozens of different apps and online programs to boost learning and interest: 3-D printing, spheros, Osmos, virtual reality, coding, cyber security modules, drones, Robotics, multiple devices. Is it easy?

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