Great blog posts from this past week:
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We can only hope that Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine in the coming weeks and months. Lesson of the Day: ‘Can the West Stop Russia From Invading Ukraine?’ is from The NY Times Learning Network.
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NOAA Planet Stewards Education Project: NOAA’s National Ocean Service
The funding application will ask you to explain how the issue relates to your community and to connect your local issue within a broader (regional, global) context.
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Choose Your READING Path Adventure – Dr. Catlin Tucker
“Why do we have to read so much in here?” I have fielded this question from students several times over the years. By the time my students reached high school, many were disillusioned with reading. They found it tedious, challenging, or boring.
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Licensing | Minecraft Education Edition
Minecraft: Education Edition offers pre-built lesson plans, build challenges, immersive worlds, educational features, tutorials, classroom settings, and more.
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Try Minecraft: Education Edition for free – MEE
Minecraft: Education Edition is available to anyone to try for free! There are two ways to try Minecraft: Education Edition for free, through the free trial or through the demo lesson. The free trial requires you to have an account, either an Office…
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The Nerdy Teacher: I’m Neurodivergent. Would I be successful in your class? #EdChat
Over the past few years, there has been more talk about Social Emotional Learning. As part of that conversation, many educators are hearing new terms. One of those terms is neurodiversity.
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Graphic novelist George O’Connor is a big hit on the grade school circuit. On a visit to Brent Elementary School in Washington, D.C. in early March, he talked about his creative process with about 70 fourth graders.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create Your Own USGS Maps
Earlier this year I highlighted the galleries of free to use and re-use media that the USGS hosts. Earlier this week I was back on the USGS site looking in those galleries when I noticed something new to me. That something is the USGS National Map V…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Few Good Resources for Learning How Blockchain Works
For the last year or so whenever I watch a sporting event on television there are advertisements for cryptocurrency exchanges. It has even pervaded niche sports like professional cycling (here’s one story about a particularly dodgy instance in cycli…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Annotate PDFs With Lumin PDF – Free for Teachers
I just received an email from Lumin PDF announcing that all of the premium features are now available to teachers and their students for free! The premium features include merging and splitting PDFs, highlighting (in addition to the normal annotatin…
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An example EduProtocols unit that supports UDL, SEL – Ditch That Textbook
This post is written by Kim Voge, an educator, instructional coach, adjunct professor, and ed tech consultant from California. Kim is the co-author of Deploying EduProtocols: 20+ Ways to Use EduProtocols to Transform Your School or District. Find he…
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Earthworms like to eat some plastics, but side effects of their digestion are unclear
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Join NCCE this April for Minecraft Active Citizen Live Lessons – NCCE’s Tech Savvy Teacher Blog
Every day, millions of young people in every country and territory worldwide use Minecraft as a platform to connect, solve problems together and explore their creativity in all sorts of ways.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Math and Science of Baseball
Tomorrow is the opening day of the 2022 Major League Baseball season.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Helpful WriteReader Features for Teachers and Students
WriteReader is a great platform for online creative writing projects. It has many features that make it great for elementary school use. Some of those features include how students access it, the library of artwork, and audio support for students.
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Your Earth Month SEL Calendar for April
Spring is upon us, and April is our month to celebrate the Earth! Earth Day is April 22, however we think the planet is so important that we’re celebrating all month long! As nature begins budding around us, it is the perfect time for you and your s…
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Debunking the Myth That Teachers Stop Improving After Three-Five Years | Diane Ravitch’s blog
The following post was written by Jill Barshay and reposted by Larry Cuban on his blog. It is a response to the claim by various economists that teachers don’t improve after three to five years.
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Peter Greene discovered an email blast from the radical rightwing group that calls itself “Moms for Liberty.
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A writer who identifies here as quickwrit sent a comment to the U.S. Department of Education commending it for the proposed regulation of the federal Charter Schools Program, which dispenses $440 million a year to start new charter schools or expand…
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I’m a Digital Artist and lifelong Star Trek Fan who usually ends up drawing huge hunky dudes—from more realistic styles, to cartoon styles!
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A Principal’s Reflections: Shifting Our Focus
Humans, by nature, are heavily influenced by experience. As such, we often do things a certain way because that is either all we know or what we are comfortable doing. Think about this for a second when it comes to behavior in education.
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The federal Charter Schools Program was launched in 1994 with a few million dollars, when the Clinton administration decided to offer funding for start-ups. At the time, there were few charter schools.
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Uncovering Your Blind Spots: An Exercise for Teachers | Cult of Pedagogy
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