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Great blog posts from last week:

• Using games for win-win learning – Oxford University Press

  Like many people around the world, I recently took time off at the end of December and the New Year to relax at home. A common feature of any holiday season, alongside eating large meals and seeing family and old friends, is playing games.

• Reimagining School after COVID | Facing History and Ourselves

  Since the coronavirus pandemic began over a year ago, students have had to navigate upheavals in their education and new ways of learning.

• My Lesson Plans for Teaching the American Revolution – History Gal

  I thought it might be helpful to share how I plan out my American Revolution unit.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Catchy Words – A Fun Augmented Reality App for Spelling Practice

  My daughters recently became very interested in a PBS Kids show called Word World. In each episode of the show the characters build a new word. As I was watching Word World with them this morning I was reminded of a fun augmented reality app called …

• How to Use VLookup in the Classroom – Classroom Powerups

  When it comes to Google Sheets I am an Enthuiastic Amatuer but I have been hacking away at spreadsheets long enough to pick up a few tricks and one of my favorite is the “VLookup”.

• Teaching the Fall of Rome – History Gal

  How do you teach the fall of Rome? When I first began teaching, I lectured about all the events and issues that led to the fall of Rome and then gave my students a mini-research project about the different groups of people that were involved in the …

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Math and Map Challenge

  This evening while recording Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions & Share Cool Stuff I was reminded of a neat math and map challenge activity from Mathigon. Here’s what I wrote about it last year. Mathigon’s map coloring challenge is to use as few colors…

• The OER Project Offers The Same Social Studies Texts In Different Lexile Levels – For Free! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Project Score is from the OER Project. It provides a lot of Social Studies prompts with scaffolded instruction and a free automating assessment tool for the student-written essays.

• End of Year Lesson Ideas for Social Studies – History Gal

  Are you struggling to figure out what to do during the last few weeks of school in your social studies or history class? Don’t stress! Here are some of my favorites:

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Short Lessons About Algorithms That I Used This Week

  This week in my Computer Science Principles course we’re talking about algorithms.

• He invented calculus, but you could smoke him at Monopoly. – Math with Bad Drawings

  When it comes to Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), I do a lot of gushing. I gushed in my book on calculus. I gushed in a three-part series of interviews with the podcast Infinitely Irrational. I even gushed in a personality quiz for Ars Technica.

• Grading for Equity: Activities to Establish Common Goals – i ❤ edu

  As our school site continues on our journey of evaluating our grading practices (see my previous blog post for more details), I am excited to share more interactive resources that can be used for professional development at your site! In the previous…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Make a Backup Copy of Your Blog

  Last Friday evening a portion of the blogging community got a bit nervous when Blogger (Google’s blogging platform) started throwing up lots of error messages. In some cases people reported having blog posts completely disappear.

• On Counting Down the Days…Again – Pernille Ripp

  An older post from 2017 that still rings true today. I will not do a countdown for many reasons, even if I know how many days I have left.

• The Nerdy Teacher: Teach Creativity with Adobe and Khan Academy

  I am very excited to share with you the FREE online course that Adobe has created in partnership with Khan Academy. As the school year winds down, this self-paced course is something I would recommend to all educators looking to improve their practi…

• 2020 Emerging Technology Top 10 List | CompTIA

  Each year, the CompTIA Emerging Technology Community unveils the annual Emerging Technology Top 10 list.

• Relive all the great Microsoft sessions from NCCE 2021 from your home! – NCCE’s Tech Savvy Teacher Blog

  Did you attend NCCE’s 2021 virtual conference? Now is a great time to go back and revisit all of the great sessions including all of the outstanding content from our Exclusive Tier 1 Sponsor: Microsoft!

• How to Make a Boss Fight Assessment – Classroom Powerups

  An Assessment is simply a way to determine what a student knows/doesn’t know or the level of skill with a certain ability. In education we often conflate assessment with test but those words, while similar, do not mean the same thing.

• Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind – Dr. Catlin Tucker

  I am concerned about the impact that the imbalances in education have on teacher engagement and job satisfaction. I know firsthand the toll that the imbalances caused by traditional workflows in education can have on a teacher. Those unrealistic wor…

• Getting Started with Content Curation in the Classroom – John Spencer

  Content curation is a vital part of the creative process. In this blog post and podcast, we explore why curation matters and how we can help students learn how to engage in the curation process. Just click on the audio below to listen to this Creati…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Dotstorming Now Supports Video and PDF Uploads

  Dotstorming is a collaborative brainstorming tool that I’ve used and written about for half of a decade or more. One of its key features is the option to have participants in a brainstorming session vote for their favorite ideas submitted during the…

• Capital & Main: Eli Broad Wanted to Destroy Public Education | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Upon his death recently, Eli Broad received many laudatory obituaries, describing his philanthropic contributions to the arts and medical research. He even built an art museum in Los Angeles, named for himself. Modesty was not one of his virtues.

• Dueck: Self-Assessment Gives Students a ‘Key to the School’

  We empower students when we engage them in their own assessment.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Brainstormer – A Collaborative Brainstorming and Voting Tool

  Brainstormer is a new online brainstorming tool that is easy to use and helps solve the “what do we do now?” problem that often arises at the end of group brainstorming sessions. Brainstormer solves that problem by letting members of the brainstormi…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Fling the Teacher! – A Fun Review Game

  Fling the Teacher lets students fling or slingshot their teachers across the screen for up to sixty seconds after they correctly answer fifteen consecutive multiple choice questions. Try it for yourself with this demo game.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Good Ways to Make Online Word Games

  As we get toward the end of the school year many of us will be looking for some fun activities for our students to do to review key terms and concepts of the last year or semester. I shared a handful of ideas for doing that in this week’s Practical …

• iCivics Unveils New – And BIG – Primary Sources Site | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  I have earlier noted that it LOOKS LIKE ICIVICS WANTS TO BE THE ONE-STOP SHOP FOR SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS. And that continues to be the case. Today, they unveiled their Exploring Primary Sources website.

• Futuclass

  Still have questions? Each study module is extensively tested until 70% of students who complete it significantly improve their knowledge of the topic.

• Why is “Critical Race Theory” Controversial and What Is it? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  In several states, the Governor and Legislature have denounced “critical race theory” and even (in Idaho and some other states) banned it from their schools.

• Just a moment…

• Professor Game Podcast Appearance! – Classroom Powerups

  Mr. Powley is a 14 year teaching veteran and is currently the dual enrollment American History teacher at the #1 ranked high school in South Carolina. For the last several years he has transformed his classroom based on the principles of game inspir…

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• ‘Extinct Fossil Fish’ Dating Back 420 Million Years Found Alive in Madagascar

  A group of South African shark hunters have unwittingly rediscovered a population of fish predating dinosaurs that many in the scientific community believed to be extinct.

• Exporting in 3D – MEE

  Watch this video to see a demonstration of 3D exporting in Education Edition in action! Build (or locate) an object you would like to export from Minecraft.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Tackling the Status Quo

  We often hear about companies who are either unwilling or afraid to change and ultimately pay the price. Blockbuster is one that often comes to mind, but many others have become victims of the status quo. Robert Brodo shared this in relation to Koda…

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More amazing blog posts from this week on current topics and needs:

• Free Technology for Teachers: Milanote Offers Nice Templates for Creating Multimedia Storyboards

  Milanote is a neat tool that I like to think of as being part storyboarding tool, part bookmarking tool, and part task management tool. For this post I’ll focus on the storyboarding aspect of Milanote. Milanote offers dozens of templates for making …

• Learning from Home – Teaching Matters

  Copyright Teaching Matters, Inc. Our subject-specific experts partner directly with teachers, teacher leaders and school leaders to develop deeper content knowledge and master instructional strategies that lead to better student outcomes.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Norms in the Online Classroom

  · 4 #EdTech Blogs to Bookmark · 9 Must Read Blogs for Innovative Teachers · 10 Digital Citizenship Bloggers to Follow · 10 Education blogs worth following – eSchool News · 11 Ed Tech Bloggers to Follow · 20 Best Blogs in Instructional Technology · 2…

• State Of California Releases School ReOpening Guidelines – It’s Going To Be A Hell Of A Fall | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  The State of California just released school re-opening guidelines. Of course, the state is also cutting the education budget by 10-13%.

• Automatically Remove Background from Image – PhotoScissors

  PhotoScissors interactive cutout tool for foreground segmentation enables new smart ways of removing backgrounds from still images. Go to our Tutorials page and see for yourself how easy it is for anyone to do with just a few simple steps.

• Hornets, crabs and rodents: setting traps to locate and contain invasive species | Puget Sound Institute

  While media reports were raising alarms about an invasion of dangerous “murder hornets,” Washington state entomologists were quietly planning a trapping program, which will mark the beginning of a search-and-destroy mission against the Asian giant h…

• I Know Schools Are Facing A Budget Crisis, But It’s A Huge Mistake To Not Have Summer School For Our Most Vulnerable Students | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  As I’ve written earlier, I think most students are going to be fine despite missing the last two or so months of school (see I’M NOT CONVINCED THAT STUDENT LEARNING LOSSES THIS YEAR ARE TRAUMATIC, BUT THEY WILL BE BAD IF WE’RE ONLINE NEXT YEAR).

• If all we offer is uninspiring learning, we’re in trouble | @mcleod | Dangerously Irrelevant

  What about learning? Yes, that’s a reason too… for some. But engagement data show that many/most of our students are not coming to school because their learning is engaging.

• how-nyc-students-and-teachers-are-making-sense-of-george-floyds-killing

  Teachers are creating space for students to talk about protests, anti-Black racism and police violence. They’re also holding space for those who don’t understand Black Lives Matter.

• Classroom Games and Tech – Ed-Tech to Engage and Inspire: 3 Tips for Getting Started With Game Design

  These videos were already shared in previous posts from my game design club series, but I wanted to get them in them one place. (I compiled some related interviews in this post.) My goal with these videos was to concisely state three tips that would…

• Getting Ready to Teach in K-12 Schools Next Year | Edutopia

  • their first foray into online learning raised issues about pacing, structure, and the lack of interactivity and rigor, and the sometimes confusing plethora of communication and instructional channels (Google Classroom, Zoom, YouTube, email, and various apps). Most found the largely asynchronous nature of learning a “lonely” experience.
  • Technology alone cannot make learning engaging, so in developing online systems, schools will need to map out their curricula, ensure articulation and complementarity between face-to-face and online learning, and intentionally design for both these environments, seeking a balance
  • “High touch” learning: involving more collaborative activities and synchronous interaction with teachers and classmates.
  • Greater interactivity: games, web-based simulations, and interactive videos—and fewer worksheets.
  • Personalized learning: a range of activities that address students’ skills, abilities, interests, and home situations—from choice boards to personalized learning pathways to individual projects.
  • More challenging activities: projects and activities that address real-world challenges and involve students creating versus simply consuming information.
  • • Direct instruction: transmitting information about concepts, skills, and procedures via demonstrations, lectures, screencasts, videos, or online presentations.
    • Cognitive models of learning: structured activities that don’t just put information in students’ heads but get knowledge out—inductive reasoning, open-ended questioning, experiments, metacognitive strategies, and problem-solving.
    • Social models of learning: collaborative instructional methods we can still use in online learning—jigsaw approaches, reciprocal teaching, discussions, debates, and peer tutoring
  • one of the most important things we can do is prepare our students to be successful online learners.
  • Personal characteristics related to successful online learning: motivation, time management, digital citizenship, persistence, self-regulation skills, and help seeking.
  • Parents and guardians who don’t speak English and those who lack digital skills, who cannot assist teachers with home instruction, or whose homes may not be conducive to learning online will need additional assistance.

• how-teachers-and-schools-can-help-when-bad-stuff-happens

  “I would recommend that they address issues from the beginning. Talk to the students about: You know, we’ve all been through a difficult experience. I know that some of you may have lost your home. Some of you been in a shelter and been in very unus…

• QuizWhizzer – Fun, gamified quiz races

• Interactive Worksheets | Wizer.me

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Anti-Racism Lessons & Videos

  Educators who want to engage with students about the death of George Floyd and racism in America, may find helpful these resources compiled by The New York City Department of Education.

• Classroom Games and Tech – Ed-Tech to Engage and Inspire: How to Start Making Games – Advice from Game Designers – Spring 2020

  I already shared three of these four short videos in other posts, but I wanted to collect them in one. The past two months I ran a virtual game design club for middle school students and I interviewed two of my friends. (All posts in this series can…

• Sacramento County Office Of Education Releases Fall Re-Opening Guidelines, Apparently Without Talking To Unions? | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  The Sacramento County Office of Education today released their guidelines for re-opening schools in the fall. You can read about it at the Sacramento Bee article, Sports canceled. Students in masks. Sacramento health officials urge big changes for s…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 30 Sites/Apps for Digital Storytelling

  Digital Storytelling is the process of telling a story through the use of digital means.  Also, it happens to be one the easiest ways to int…

• Music Synchronizes the Brains of Performers and Their Audience – Scientific American

  When a concert opens with a refrain from your favorite song, you are swept up in the music, happily tapping to the beat and swaying with the melody. All around you, people revel in the same familiar music.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Make Short Audio Recordings – No Accounts Required

  Since late last year when Google finally added native support for audio in Google Slides I’ve fielded a steady stream of questions from readers looking for suggestions on the quickest and easiest ways for kids to record audio on their Chromebooks.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Two New Google Docs Features in G Suite for Education

  Back in February Google added Smart Compose and Autocorrect as new features in Google Docs. However, those features were only available in Google Docs in G Suite for Business accounts.

• Student Self-Assessment: Now More Than Ever | All Things Assessment

  When I wrote my last blog post in January, and made self-assessment my personal learning resolution, I did not know that in a few months my brain would be incredibly tired from learning way too many things in a short amount of time.

• Citizen science games: the ultimate list | Citizen Science Center

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• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Collaborate on a YouTube Channel

  Like many other schools, this spring my school held our awards ceremonies virtually. A colleague and I managed the distribution of the recordings of those ceremonies. We did this by collaborating on one YouTube channel.

• The Best Video Creation Tools for Teachers and Students | Free Video Editing Software and Apps Ranked

  A good video creation tool is a must in every teacher’s toolbox. But what’s the best editor or program to use? This question has plagued me for a long time.

• Transcribe Audio to Text | Transcription Company & Website – Rev

  ServicesTranscription 99% accuracy, by human professionals $1.25 PER MINUTE Rough Draft 80% accuracy, machine generated transcript 25¢ PER MINUTE Captions English captions for videos $1.

• Very Good Interview: “What’s motivating nationwide protests?” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  GDJ / Pixabay This is a very good ABC News interview with Marc Lamont Hill:

• Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Ways to Edit Images in Google Slides

  A decade+ ago when I started using Google Slides it was a rather bare bones alternative to PowerPoint. That is no longer the case. Today, there are tons neat little features that you can use in Google Slides to improve the appearance of your present…

• New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “When is a pandemic over?” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  MirceaIancu / Pixabay I’m adding this new TED-Ed lesson and video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS:

• Kids will need recess more than ever when returning to school post-coronavirus

  School leaders globally are tasked with the unenviable challenge of planning for school reopenings after COVID-19 pandemic shut downs.

• Yours for the making – Instructables

• ‘You get engagement from everyone’: Mott Haven teacher incorporates baseball in science curriculum – Bronx Times

• ‘Teaching for Black Lives’ — a handbook for educators to fight racism – The Washington Post

  On July 10, 2018, I wrote about a book that had just been published titled “Teaching for Black Lives,” a collection of writings that helps educators humanize blacks in curriculum, teaching and policy and connect lessons to young people’s lives.

• What if we liberated the learning from report cards – What Ed Said

  Every time we’ve thought about how we might improve our reports, we’ve failed. The barriers to major change have somehow seemed insurmountable.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Creating Breakout Rooms with Google Meet

  It’s easy to create breakout rooms using Google Meet. Start by creating a hyperdoc agenda that lists each topic and with that topic provide a link to the breakout room agenda. It’s also a good idea to have a main room / lounge where participants can…

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Check out these amazing posts from last week:

• 7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

  On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his mo…

• Grace is Greater Than Grades | Shake Up Learning

  In the midst of the coronavirus chaos, the anxiety, the fears, and the extra time at home, I would like to come back to an idea that Jennifer Pearson shared on a special BONUS episode of the Shake Up Learning Show–grace.

• 4 Must-Have Google Classroom Skills for Teachers | Shake Up Learning

  Google Classroom is quite a robust platform for teachers and students to communicate, collaborate, and manage assignments digitally. Google is continually updating and giving us new features that make it an even more powerful tool.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Ideas for Building Virtual Tours With Google’s Tour Creator

  Google’s VR Tour Creator makes it possible for anyone who has a Google account and a computer to create their own virtual reality tours to view and share in Google Expeditions.

• How To Avoid Parent Complaints About Online Learning – Smart Classroom Management

  Online learning increases the possibility of receiving complaints from parents—because they’re now able to see everything their child sees. They can judge and dissect every lesson and assignment as it’s given.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Convert Video into Audio

  Earlier this week I had a colleague ask me how she could extract the audio from a video that she had made. Some video editing tools, including iMovie and WeVideo, have an option to export just the audio from your video projects.

• Control Alt Achieve: You can take it with you! Transfer your Gmail and Drive with Google Takeout for Schools

  Change is a part of life: Maybe you are a high school senior or a college student and you are graduating. Or perhaps you are a student who is moving to a new school. You might be a teacher who is taking a job at a new school district.

• Climate Science Assessment Tasks | Science for All

  The Phenomenal Assessment site features three assessment tasks created for the Climate Science Proviso which has provided climate science education funding in Washington state. You will find an elementary task, a middle school task and a high school…

• Young artists show creativity in a plea to reduce harmful trash in the ocean | Puget Sound Institute

  Student artists from across the country are calling attention to the hazards of human trash that washes into the ocean, killing sea creatures large and small.

• Control Alt Achieve: Remote Learning & Pear Deck Webinar

  For those not familiar, Pear Deck is an awesome add-on for Google Slides that allows you to add interactive elements to your slideshows.When you run the slideshow through the Pear Deck add-on the students can join the presentation with a code and fo…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Use Whiteboards in Google Meet Without Screensharing

  On Monday I published a blog post about a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard Fi.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Blur Faces and Objects in Your Videos

  One of the topics that I frequently receive questions about is privacy when posting videos online. One option is to post your videos as unlisted or private videos on YouTube or Vimeo. Another option is to blur faces and objects in your videos.

• How to Teach Social-Emotional Learning When Students Aren’t in School – Education Week

  Tens of millions of students are dealing with massive upheaval to their educations and daily lives with their schools shuttered indefinitely to thwart the spread of the coronavirus.

• 7 Important Questions Before Implementing Digital Portfolios – George Couros

  Digital portfolios have been something that I have been work on for over ten years, and I am very passionate about not only the product it can create but, more importantly, the process. Having a space to share my learning and reflections has been po…

• 4 Ways to Craft Choice Menus in Distance Learning Classes – John Spencer

  I have three kids ranging from older elementary to high school. Each one of them is handling distance learning differently. My daughter, who is also the youngest, initially felt overwhelmed at the list of assignments that popped up each Monday and t…

• Learning math through story: Examples from one teacher’s classroom – Ditch That Textbook

  ​This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.

• Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching – Ditch That Textbook

  Great stories have a natural structure and flow. There are several great frameworks we can use when we teach — and when students create with their learning. The three-act structure is a common story arc used in books, theater, TV and even jokes.

• Climate Clock | Human Impact Lab

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Map and Connect Spreadsheet Data

  Earlier today a reader emailed me with a great question about Google Maps. She wanted to map a set of addresses and then quickly determine the shortest route between all of those places.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Complete Sentence Requirements in Google Forms

  This afternoon I held an informal webinar for a small group of people who were interested in learning some G Suite tips and tricks. Response validation in Google Forms was one of the things that I showed toward the end of that webinar.

• Climate Clock | Science for All

  I’m assuming you are coming to grips with a global pandemic and the introduction of murder hornets. So there is no better time to add on by sharing the Climate Clock. This site features a real-time clock that displays the total global warming to dat…

• Online PD: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning | Science for All

  The STEM Teaching Tools team/site recently hosted a Zoom professional development session titled- ClimeTime Professional Learning Session: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning During School Closures…it’s a catchy title to be sure.

• It’s Time For Mastery Learning • Teched Up Teacher

  Once upon a time, I was terrified that I wouldn’t pass my drivers test. I wasn’t good at parallel parking to begin with, but as I waited for my instructor to pick me up I realized that I had been practicing on the wrong side of the road.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Loom – Create Screencasts on Your iPad

  Loom is a good screencasting that I’ve written about a handful of times over the last couple of years. Amongst it’s many features, Loom offers a Chrome extension that makes it easy to respond to an email with a video.

• Control Alt Achieve: Adding Audio to Pear Deck Google Slides Activities

  Also, if you would like to learn more, I am excited to be offering a free 1-hour webinar on “Remote Learning and Pear Deck” where I will go over the fundamentals of Pear Deck for asynchronous learning, share best practices, highlight favorite featur…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: DOGOnews

  DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Ev…

• 7 Strategies Designed to Increase Student Engagement in Synchronous Online Discussions Using Video Conferencing |

  One of the primary roles that a teacher plays in an online class is the facilitation of learning. Facilitation is the teacher’s ability to clearly communicate learning objectives and support learners as they make progress toward those objectives.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Free Webinar – A Framework for Using Educational Technology

  Whenever I’m a guest on a podcast I always asked some variation on the question, “how do you decide what to write about?” The answer is simple, I try to look at new technology through the framework of discovery, discussion, and demonstration.

• seven-distance-learning-priorities-to-consider-before-reopening-schools

  When U.S. schools initially closed in March, distance learning emerged as a way to keep kids learning. Classroom teachers scrambled to learn how to put lessons online and tens of thousands of Chromebooks and other devices were distributed in a matte…

• Free Wordle (Word Cloud) Generators – Featuring A New Tool

• Students as Content Creators in Minecraft | AltspaceVR

  PRESENTATION: Minecraft has become an amazing tool for use in education. It allows us to leverage student expertise while meeting our learning outcomes.

• The Power of Class Rituals | Mike Kaechele

  The Covid 19 pandemic has turned the world upside down, changing life as we know in ways never dreamed possible. The only comparison that I have is dystopian or disaster movies. In all of the craziness that is now life, we need to find patterns to s…

• A Principal’s Reflections: Protecting Kids During and After Remote Learning

  With more and more schools either extending school closures or completely shutting down for the remainder of the academic year, a focus on remote learning will continue into the foreseeable future.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Reasonable strategies for the future of schooling in unreasonable times

  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) put out hard to swallow guidance about the reopening of schools. Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools.

• Traits of a Successful Online Teacher |

  Last week, I had the good fortune of stumbling onto John Savery’s article titled “BE VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors” in which he talks about the unique challenges facing teachers who are working with students in the online e…

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