The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Dr. Catlin Tucker , a blended learning coach and teacher of 16 years, shares her expertise about tackling the different aspects of blended teaching including engagement, group work, and assessment in a virtual classroom or hybrid setting. How do attendance issues factor into this?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 6, 2018

The other day I was conducting some learning walks with the administrative team at Wells Elementary School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD). Throughout the school year, I have been assisting them with digital pedagogy as it relates to blended learning and the use of flex spaces.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2018

When I lead blended learning workshops or work as a 1:1 blended learning coach, I field a lot of questions about the design of station rotation lessons. Below are some of the most common comments I hear and my responses to teachers struggling to conceptualize how to use this model with their students. #1

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 26, 2018

The Station Rotation Model is a blended learning model where students rotate through a series of online and offline stations. This model is an easier shift for elementary teachers who are already use learning stations with students. That said, there are clear advantages to using this model at the secondary level.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When we talk about integrating technology, there’s often the question of training current educators how to use it. Indeed, I think that the current situation demands a proactive strategy: training future teachers how to use technology. Demand for K-12 teachers, as well as High School and secondary teachers in the U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

It is critical that we proactively develop a learning community in our physical and online spaces. First, we must learn our students’ names as soon as possible. I realize this is a challenging task for secondary teachers with 150+ students, but it makes students feel valued when we use their names.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

One challenge school administrators face is how to keep funding in their districts, especially as enrollment in public schools continues to decline. My recommendation for school leaders is to develop online or blended learning programs.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s exciting to see so many teachers trying this blended learning model and creating opportunities for small group instruction, real-time feedback, collaboration, and differentiated learning. Students can take FOREVER to transition from station to station, so I always recommend explicitly teaching them how to transition.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2019

Urkund only partners with secondary districts and post-secondary education institutions. However, if you do not have an LMS, you may also have students submit work via the Urkund web portal or via email. Once submitted, you send the paper to Urkund and receive a report back like the one shown below.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 27, 2016

To remain relevant and have impact on a large scale, classroom integration must retain a profound concern with how to empower schools and teachers to educate students of widely differing abilities. And that means navigating the debate between segmentation and collaboration that dominates secondary education today.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

in Secondary Education from Ball State University. As the former primary and middle school assistant principal of an international school, she cultivated a staff of educators from around the world. She led the design of ELA, social studies, and SEL curricula to support learners of all abilities. She received her M.Ed.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 30, 2020

You’re going to have to choose some kind of learning management system before you move forward, and most of your decisions from there are going to depend on the choice you make regarding your LMS, anyhow. In this article, I’ve done my best to layout for you the two main choices for secondary LMS, since I myself am a secondary teacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Go to coolcatteacher.com/modern right now to sign up for the Modern Classrooms essential course for free where you will learn about the strategies, research, and resources that can drive student-centered, self-directed learning in your classroom. Thank you for listening. 8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

We talked to educator Alyssa Lyons about how to bring real-world skills to your classroom with some powerful curriculum. Listen to 6 Ways to Help Kids Learn Real-World Skills. This is one where it's blended learning in all the sense of the word. Everfi sponsored this episode which contains advertorial content.

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Hapara

JANUARY 14, 2022

Integrating technology into instruction and learning is a way of life for educators today. But it can be a struggle to understand how to use classroom technology in meaningful ways. You can listen to her podcast, The Shakeup Learning Show every week and find past episodes of Google Teacher Podcast.

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Saving Socrates

JANUARY 30, 2014

This past year our school implemented a pilot program for blended learning in several classrooms. While we have had certain obstacles, teachers are beginning to feel more secure in how to implement this approach and students are becoming more accustomed to the methods it entails.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/econ for more information and remember to tweet out your pics about how you teach your students using #PowerofEcon. The Best PD for Math Teachers (and How to Use It). Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Date: April 19, 2018.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2020

See what you think: Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works. In Bold School, Kieschnick lays out an effective, workable education framework that blends common sense with technology while reminding teachers that tech is a useful tool for achieving pedagogic goals, not the opposite.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 5, 2021

The post Student Portfolios with Google Sites – SULS091 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Student Portfolios are the epitome of Dynamic Blended Learning and going beyond the due date because they are never “done.”. Thank you to the Blended Learning with Google contributors for sharing your expertise!

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., I want to figure out how to do it.”.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. They explained their goal was to perfect competency-based learning and grading first, and then begin blending learning.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Sketchnotes invite students to think creatively about how to show what they have learned. This artistic expression of learning encourages students to identify key points and show their relationships to one another in a free-form sketch that is not as restrictive as a concept map. Exit Ticket.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much? A lot of what I see is for secondary school. And especially with littles, the time should be limited.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

When done right, learning as a team works. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning. increase in the test scores following group-based learning activities. Having many collaboration issues is not the standard for all classrooms.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The post How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Let’s Talk About How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites! How to Create Powerful Student Portfolios with Google Sites by @Mo_Physics #gsuiteedu Click To Tweet. How to Create a Google Site.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2017

The post How to Cultivate Communication Skills in the Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. How do we cultivate these skills in our students? A few weeks ago, I was given an advanced copy of Lisa Johnson’s new book, Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

But there’s another factor that’s impeding remote learning. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online. No one ever taught them how—or asked them to learn. “To They don’t have to start from scratch: Research about how to successfully teach kids in virtual classrooms has been underway for years.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. Our 1:1 approach to technology has allowed us to move into an era of blended learning. A Curriculum Specialist’s Tech Essentials.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Half of all principals quit during their third year , and districts nationwide are trying to figure out how to better support principals and improve their effectiveness. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. The post How to help principals do a better job?

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 2, 2020

Synchronous is very difficult when students are at home, where we cannot control the home learning environment. Asynchronous : students are engaged in learning at different times, offering more flexibility for schedules and learning needs. This is usually online or in a blended learning environment.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. Design assessments to measure understanding .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. They have a Personalized Learning Implementation Framework that guides users through 25 key areas of personalized learning. It can work for those just starting or those already on a personalized learning path.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It’s beneficial for students because, The use of the flipped classroom model means pupils become more familiar with technology and how to use it in a professional environment, rather than to solely communicate with their friends or play games. Dr. Neelam Parmar; Teacher & Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

Think about how to use Twitter, surveys, and town-hall style meetings for your communications. At a minimum you want to consider school leaders, teachers, students and parents but there may be more audiences to think about or more ways to split them up (for example you might want different messages for your secondary vs elementary teachers).

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For districts in need of additional technologies to make hybrid classrooms successful, here's a closer look at the new funding available and how to secure it: ESSER Funds and How to Use Them The original CARES Act included an education stabilization fund called Elementary and Secondary Education Emergency Relief (ESSER).

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

More often than not, our staff have had to adapt to a new concurrent model of blended learning, teaching a roster of both @Home and @School students synchronously and asynchronously. If a student must spend more time learning how to navigate and use the tool rather than learning and applying content, reconsider your choice.

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