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How Parents Can Help Kids with Math: 5 Tips that Work

The CoolCatTeacher

Jon Orr – bio as submitted Jon is a math teacher at John McGregor Secondary School in the Lambton-Kent District School Board in Ontario Canada. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief

Edsurge

On Thursday, hoping to send a stronger message, they took it all the way to the top, with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. Below is the full text of the email the students sent to Facebook’s chief executive.

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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

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

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. When my students would ask me how many followers I had on my Facebook account and Twitter, I stated I did not know. I would note I had no idea on my Facebook account, but maybe 500 on my Twitter account, and most of them are teachers. .

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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Facebook: [link]. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Facebook: [link]. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Instagram: [link] Facebook: [link]. Website: [link] Twitter: [link] LinkedIn: [link] Facebook: [link]. Lindy Hockenbary.

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Personalize: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners

A Principal's Reflections

Little did I know that a secondary principal from a different school system was in attendance who had been blazing her own trail with personalized learning and would later share the journey of her school. During a roundtable discussion, I was asked to discuss key aspects of personalized learning that are critical to successful implementation.

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5 Ways to Find Project Based Learning Ideas

The CoolCatTeacher

Dr. Jennifer Pieratt, author of “Keep it Real with PBL” for both elementary and secondary students, shares how she finds many of the project ideas that she creates and shares at crafted curriculum. Today’s show gives us ideas for where we can find new and innovative project ideas and create them ourselves.

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