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Are Students Off-Task in Class on Phones? There's an App for That!

A Principal's Reflections

I am a huge proponent of harnessing and leveraging mobile technology in the classroom. As the principal, I decided to implement Bring Your Own Device back in 2010 as a way to not only take advantage of student-owned devices but to also improve the learning culture through more empowerment and ownership. Getting started is easy.

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How Semantic Pulse Surveys Can Boost Your School Climate

Cult of Pedagogy

No Tech Use the first 5 minutes of a class or meeting to ask the group this question: “What are five words you’d use to describe our school culture today?” Here are some ideas for doing it with different levels of technology (including none at all). Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

It includes lesson plans, activities, templates, and classroom management solutions that allow you to monitor student work and give feedback as they go. On Flaticon you can download icons and stickers in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, and CSS formats, completely free of charge. Video is currently not available.

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How to Help Students Without Being a Savior

Cult of Pedagogy

” “The cultural narrative about trauma usually pushes us to one of two directions,” Venet says, “the first direction being that people with trauma are broken. “My students with trauma are broken. I feel so bad for those kids.” “You didn’t create this dynamic,” she says.

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Nothing’s Going to Change My Mind: How Unconditional Positive Regard Transforms Classrooms

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But regardless of where they come from, these mindsets hurt our relationships with students, and that makes everything else worse, from behavior to academics to the culture of school as a whole. So with all of this in mind, I was intrigued when I came across the phrase unconditional positive regard.

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