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#edcampseacoast https://t.co/3pTpy2ikO3
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Thanks, guys for getting the fire started! Thanks also to @casehighprinc @patrickmlarkin @bmenegoni for good convo… https://t.co/Yj5apjFR97
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Great and rainy! Hoping for the end of the drought! #satchat https://t.co/VBeb3KehpY
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If Andover Public Schools can do it at 11 facilities, why not us? Our trash, our choice! @BurlMASchools https://t.co/lw3gMCxmVj #bpschat
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Recent updates to G Suite for Education
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A look at how San Diego Unified evaluates classroom technologiy.
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Interview with Alison Gopnik, author of The Philosophical Baby – As the book’s title suggests, the best model for parents and teachers—honed over millennia of human evolution and trial and error—is not the carpenter who works diligently from an established blueprint, but the patient gardener who provides a safe space to let nature take its course, and then gets out of the way.
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Successful leaders distinguish between making decisions and the decision-making process. Even if you’re making the final decision, include others in the decision-making process.
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From Harvard Business Review – “Architects are the only leaders with any real long-term impact, as they quietly redesign the school and transform the community it serves.”
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Complete post on Cultural Competence by Chris Lehmann from Edutopia
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We live in an increasingly pluralistic society where people run up against the thoughts and beliefs of others more and more frequently. Helping children learn to navigate the space between what they believe and what others believe is perhaps one of the best ways we can overcome the hate we see in so many facets of our society today.
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Great resources from Ashland Public Schools on the topic of school start times.
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Social Studies writing resources from Larry Ferlazzo
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From Edutopia – With the right training and support, restorative justice can prove more effective than traditional discipline measures in building a stronger school community.
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My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (October 16, 2016)
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From Richard Byrne – “Moments are collections of Tweets organized around a hashtag, an event, or a theme. When you create a Moment you can share it on Twitter account for others to see the Tweets that you’ve included in the Moment. “
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From Edutopia – “A neuroscientist explains how factors such as light and seating arrangements can affect students’ cognitive performance.”
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Free self-paced course from MA DESE
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The links provide overviews and highlights of the Massachusetts Equity Plan, with information targeted toward specific audiences. We also provide summaries of key data and suggested next steps.
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Resource from the MA DESE
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Graphic from the CDC
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Presentation from Ashland Public Schools (MA) on Later School Start Times
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Patrick, the BPS story is a model for all. TY #MSSAAchat https://t.co/U9z7xhCDzy
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However you feel about the candidates, this is the best “negative” political campaign commercial ever produced: https://t.co/2evvCApBnC
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I like how @patrickmlarkin achieved this. Best way to get out of the office is not to have one. Make everywhere you… https://t.co/jHUUWD44Lp
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The times out of the office and working directly with Ss and Ts are definitely the brightest parts of the day!… https://t.co/N6QuZdL3UI
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Of course, before students can use the advanced skills of curation and synthesis, they first have to learn how to identify what is important to take notes about and how to generate notes using paraphrasing and concise language.
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From Pernille Ripp – :I wondered then, as I often do, when I come across homework assignments that appear nonsensical, whether her English teacher had done their own homework? “
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Changes brewing regarding licensure for technology teachers
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From Allison Zmuda – “I ask my audience to consider what space could mean in that context, typically resulting in the following four responses: Intellectual Space, Safe Space, Respectful and Interdependent Space, Digital Space
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From Richard Byrne – The Great Thanksgiving Listen is an initiative intended to facilitate conversations between students and adult family members over Thankgiving weekend. StoryCorps has released a toolkit for teachers to use to guide students in the process of recording interviews with family members. “
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From Jay McTighe – Rather than simply specifying a “scope and sequence” of knowledge and skills, these new standards focus on the performances expected of students who are prepared for higher education and careers. For example, the CCSS in English Language Arts have been framed around a set of Anchor Standards that define the long-term proficiencies that students will need to be considered “college and career ready.”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (October 9, 2016)
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This foolproof 5-minute exercise will cure your procrastination @ebtrylevelrebel https://t.co/3p0gHoPi80
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NEW POST: No regrets, just lessons learned https://t.co/d47hDl4koB #strongatlife #HappyFriday
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From Data and Society – In this primer, D&S researcher Monica Bulger defines the boundaries of “personalized learning,” explores the needs that various personalized learning systems aim to meet, and highlights the tensions between what is being promised with personalized learning and the practical realities of implementation. She also raises areas of concern, questions about unintended consequences, and potential risks that may come with the widespread adoption of personalized learning systems and platforms.
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The child psychologist Ross Greene upends this conventional wisdom. He disputes the notion that, as he puts it, “Kids do well if they wanna.” Instead, he maintains: “Kids do well if they can.”
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Building SEL (social-emotional learning) skills such as integrity requires face-to-face interactions, meaningful discussion, and reflection. Edtech is no complete substitute for that, but tools exist that can supplement the development of character, both in the classroom and at home.
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The title speaks for itself…should be titled despicable
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (October 2, 2016)
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From Cathy Davidson – “The key: diversify. Most of the rest of life comes “pre-sorted”: we live most of life in narrow worlds, with fields and friends that mirror us. Sometimes depressingly so. The best aspect of a college or university is all the choice it offers, diversity in every sense of the word. Don’t squander your chance!”
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From Dean Shareski ” You can always remind folks that you want both but choosing a path or focus doesn’t exclude the other but gives you a much better chance of creating a culture and momentum to do good work.”
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From Teach Thought – The University of Minnesota offered some observable characteristics of effective teaching which, while focused on teacher actions rather than student learning, had some useful tips–not so much how to teach generally, but specific actions that you can use tomorrow.
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We are not serving our kids. When it comes to youth sports too often we are focused on the needs of the business, and ignoring the needs of the child.
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From Harold Jarche – “We don’t need to create more jobs, but rather better ways of co-creating value between humans.”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (September 25, 2016)
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“I ask that you put yourself in the shoes of black and brown children growing up in a world where they see videos of their classmate’s father shot and bleeding in the street.”
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Great list of strategies teachers can use to help introverts speak up in the classroom: https://t.co/GuHUmbtb4b
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Stories of EdTech Innovation and #GoOpen districts from the Office of Ed Tech
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Imposrtant nsight from a black educator on what it feels like to be a black educator amid all of the national unrest around police shootings of unarmed black men.
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From the Hechinger Report re: higher ed. – “The reason we don’t have more faculty of color among college faculty is that we don’t want them. We simply don’t want them.”
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From Charles Pierce – “If Massachusetts has done charters better than, say, Ohio or Florida, it is because the state has exercised the excellent, rigorous oversight that he mentions, and the cap has been an essential part of that oversight. The current campaign to eliminate the cap is not being done to benefit poor children. It is being waged to benefit the charter school industry, which wants to demolish that excellent, rigorous oversight with which Chait claims to be so impressed because it stands in the way of that industry’s profits.”
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Classic stupid s***. Could have written the same thing about books in school in 1880. @TIME https://t.co/Jxom3ERZWX
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The “how-to” to writing how-to texts | great tutorial for teachers and students! #TeachWriting https://t.co/xUdz1uqBfw
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I love this list…. https://t.co/eMyn2RdxSl
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Fourteen schools in Texas and Oklahoma are giving students more access to recess though the LiiNK Project, developed at Texas Christian University.
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PARCC is doing some deep soul-searching, with its future at stake. It’s figuring out how it should reorganize to survive the coming years, and who should run it.
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The disaster in devaluing the arts in schools is directly connected to the educational culture around the fear of being wrong. Students become so conditioned to target correct answers that creative pursuits become increasingly the most challenging situations to be choosing.
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This is the home-page for a website about… educational strategies that can help students improve their problem-solving skills in all areas of life.
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The Opportunity by Design initiative offers a roadmap for communities that want to embark on this mission. Since it was launched in 2013, Opportunity by Design has helped seven urban school districts create 12 small high schools that reflect the communities’ ideas and priorities. Five more such schools are on the way. As unique as each of these schools is, they all incorporate 10 broad principles that we believe to be key to their success. Three are particularly vital.
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An online library of free literary and informational texts, CommonLit helps teachers quickly locate leveled texts that fit into a lesson or unit, assess student understanding, generate discussion, and even pair the texts with other media, all in one free platform. It’s an ideal tool for grades 5-12 but would also work for advanced students in the lower grades.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Children’s Books | Mother Jones
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Recess four times a day? Why some schools are now letting kids play an hour a day. t
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Good YouTube channel with clips on a variety of topics (with subtitles).
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Because thinking is hard.
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My Anti-Five-Paragraph-Essay Five-Paragraph Essay – Literacy & NCTE – Linkis.com
Well done piece on wht the five-paragraph essay may not be the thing we have our high school students trying to master.
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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How Domestic Violence In One Home Affects Every Child In A Class
The long-lasting impact of domestic violence for children…
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A short but brief take on why a traditional approach to educating students will not serve them in today’s world.
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Traditional Homework May Be Hazardous to Your Child’s Health – Brilliant or Insane
More ideas on how and why to change from a traditional homeowrk approach.
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An experiment in second grade: No homework. Then, see if test scores drop. – The Washington Post
More on cutting down or cutting out elementary homework
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A textbook is not a program…
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Education Experts Describe the Perfect School Calendar
Education experts weight in on the optimal school calendar
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From Larry Ferlazzo – “There are so many good things to say about it and how it provides a glimpse into the challenges facing our English Language Learners.”
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The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic Forum
Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed.
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Getting Started with Content Curation in the Classroom
Good post from John Spencer on curation.
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Good review of the last 10 years from Karl Fisch
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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Majority of Americans are still reading print books |
a Pew Research Center survey finds that the share of Americans who have read a book in the last 12 months (73%) has remained largely unchanged since 2012…
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Students, Directory Information, and Social Media – Part 2
The premise of the post is that parents should be able to opt their kids out of directory information sharing and having their kid’s information (photo and name) shared on social media, and not have this be a barrier to other school activities like yearbook, local news, athletic and music publications, class pictures, and streamlined access to childcare.
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Good overview of the process of reblogging posts and some of the connected issues.
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3 Obvious Ways Twitter Promotes Literacy
Good example of how Twitter can be used for so much more than just sharing short snippets of trivial information.
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Spotlight on Homework – Education Week
A number of posts written by Education Weeek on Homework
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Curricular Coherence in the Age of Open Educational Resources –
From NCTM President Matt Larson – “the danger in online curricular selection is the undercutting of curricular coherence by the introduction of disjointed tasks that are of questionable quality, do not fit within the mathematical learning progression, and are incoherent.”
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Why the Most Common Diversity Programs Don’t Work – HBR Video
From Harvard Business Review
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We all should reflect on this to ensure that our students have theor own watershed moments
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When Teachers Take A Breath, Students Can Bloom : NPR Ed : NPR
Includes a good list of CARE Techniques To Try In The Classroom
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Colin Kaepernick and What It Means To Be Patriotic In Schools
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From Bill Fitzgerald – “In this post, I reference hashtags and tweets I have seen that compromise student privacy.”
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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10 Easy Ways To Create an Amazing #SchoolCulture as a Principal This Year – The Principal of Change
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Nailed it. @patrickmlarkin @MsBethHughes https://t.co/d5HW5g2xvE
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Daily Innovation: A Snapchat Account to Showcase Your Classroom and School – A.J. JULIANI
From AJ Juliani – “Recently, I was looking at a new trend of people “taking over” Snapchat channels for a day to show their world to a new audience, and I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we could do that in education with Snapchat!”
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TurboNote | A online video note taking and bookmarking tool
TurboNote provides in-page video note taking experience, it helps you keep your ideas right with the video. You can easily come back and review the video and idea at specifc moment any time you want!
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Not all screen time is equal: Some considerations for schools and parents – Shooting Azimuths
*NEW* Not all screen time is equal: Some considerations for schools and parents https://t.co/FRNepqjB2D
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10 Easy Ways To Create an Amazing #ClassroomCulture This Year –
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
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Why writing instruction is essential to sci standards https://t.co/7xT7Zd4NQV #keystoliteracy https://t.co/TbmHJrZspX
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From Richard Byrne – Google Forms can be a powerful tool for creating and delivering quizzes to your students.
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Great question – “Pew Research Centre published survey results on social media conversations about race. According to the survey, “two of the most used hashtags around social causes in Twitter history focus on race and criminal justice: #Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter”. So then why are educators so silent when it comes to race conversations?
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George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning https://t.co/mZdmR0CjAU @gsiemens #highered #edtech #DLNchat https://t.co/DffNje2PBI
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5 flexible grading practices that create hope for students. https://t.co/KmvZNXcXV3
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Ignore PISA scores altogether. It doesn’t measure what really matters. I couldn’t agree more. I https://t.co/zcTnv1cObD
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From Google for Education Blog – arent participation has a major impact on student learning. Today, we’re launching a new feature in Google Classroom that will automatically share summaries of student work with parents. Once invited by a teacher, parents and guardians can receive automated daily or weekly email summaries of student work and class announcements, making it easier to stay up-to-date on what’s happening in the classroom.
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From Richard Byrne – “In the Google Classroom mobile apps you can now draw on, highlight, and write on top of students’ Google Documents, PDFs, and Microsoft Word documents. The iOS version of the app will also let you type on top of a document. With both apps students can annotate items that teachers have shared in Google Classroom and teachers can annotate items that students have shared back to them.”
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Depression, schizophrenia, suicidal feelings—too often, these experiences stay private. These speakers who’ve… https://t.co/zYvDqyr2Tr
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Good overview of organizing students for book trailers, including a variety of tech tools that can be used
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OPINION: Eating ice cream while black: https://t.co/2x7npCVPvl via @cogwbur https://t.co/YJlTIOeaOg
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From the Brookings Institute
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Here are ten edtech tools and resources I think English teachers can leverage to increase engagement and deepen learning. #1-2 are whimsical, #3-5 relate to classroom interaction, #6-7 deal with reading, and #8-10 help with writing and writing feedback.
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5 great (and free) apps to use the moment you wake up https://t.co/jQmIZVb7Xm https://t.co/XkIuohBTC2
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Why are you cherry picking studies @anya1anya? https://t.co/lppuqLgyo1 Yes, caution advised, but also some really positive studies
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