A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

You can align critical feedback to current research by keeping a document of effective pedagogical techniques found in your readings. It also enables you to have more effective conversations with teachers about their own growth, adding credibility to post-conference feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

A piece of student writing can become a diverse and substantive document when it is the basis for a step-by-step exchange of ideas and questions between teacher, peers, authors, and mentors.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

During this reflective process, it is expected that school leadership teams collect and document aligned evidence for each item. Step 5 : On-going professional learning is implemented and progress monitoring through the online Pillars of Digital Leadership Questionnaire is documented to determine the efficacy of the digital transformation.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations. I made an effort to align every point of critical feedback to current research.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

To ease the burden as a principal, I would spend my summers developing a document containing concise commentary on virtually every strategy addressed in our observation and evaluation tool. Project-management tools with embedded AI can help to track progress, manage tasks, and collaborate on documents.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

School leadership teams are expected to collect and document aligned evidence for each item during this reflective process. Step 5 : On-going professional learning is implemented and progress monitoring through the robust questionnaire is documented to determine the efficacy of the transformation efforts using innovative approaches.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces 3 talks and document display on Saturday 12 0ctober 10-1.00pm: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: Talks by Claire Brock, Mary Chapman and Victoria Rea at The London Archives. Organised in collaboration with Claire Brock and The London Archives.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Have students keep this log in a binder or online document and have them reflect on what they have done to incorporate the feedback. The most important aspect is to unpack the standard(s) into learning targets and ensure that the feedback that is verbalized helps students advance to these goals.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2021

Using Devices to Document Learning. Teach students to use their devices to capture visual media documenting their learning. Use audio capture to record notes, capture realizations, or document interviews. Organize and Save Documentation in a Digital Notebook. What is their documentation revealing about their learning?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The journey to improve is a process that requires various strategies that are aligned to a specific focus as outlined in a mission statement or vision document that describes the why. When we think about change, more often than not, a plan is developed, implemented, and evaluated with the goal being improvement.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

You can see the resulting document HERE. Going back to the grading example, we openly discussed and agreed on a failure floor, no zeros, and a process of retakes/redos. However, I then established seven criteria that had to be supported with evidence before any student could receive a failing quarter grade.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Whether you did or didn’t make a planning guide, you can use this document to record your favorite activities of the year, reflect on the outcomes, and record your thoughts about what changes you want to make next year. At this point, most of us rely heavily on Google Drive or the equivalent to manage our documents.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In addition, they’ve got a couple of other useful documents under their tips for fostering teacher connections series you can check out as well. It was designed for younger students (head start/kindergarten), but with the exception of 4, 17, 21, and maybe 40, they’re actually useful for K-12 in general.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 14, 2020

I'll tell you that I have personally experienced this as a principal and seen in many districts school staff who are asked to print, collate, distribute, collect, read and process all kinds of paper forms and documents. Often these are in multiple languages!

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

I recommend that teachers use a digital document or slide deck. Digital documents and slide decks also offer a range of multimedia options that can enhance the learning experience for students. Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Create an overview of the rotations with links to resources and documents. I suggest adding the link to this overview document to your digital planner. Feel free to make a copy of the documents and tailor them to your needs. Feel free to make a copy of the documents and tailor them to your needs.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 1, 2020

I encourage teachers to dedicate class time to an exercise that requires students to compare two pieces of work from two different moments in time using the Google Document below. The Google Document guides students in selecting two pieces of work to analyze and reflect on. AnalyzeGrowth.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

Their job will be to post their observations in the chat window or on a shared Google Document. Teachers can make annotating a piece of reading, which is typically an individual endeavor, and make it more engaging by simply grouping students on a shared document to annotate collaboratively. What questions do they have?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 4, 2020

This choice board is composed of activities that encourage students to think critically and creatively, document their learning, reflect on these unconventional learning experiences, and share what they’ve worked on with their peers. Post the documentation of their work with their reflection online where their peers can see it.

Education 218

Education 218

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Teachers can bring multiple students together for shared tasks on documents, slide decks, drawings, or spreadsheets. The Google Suite can be a great complement to breakout rooms by creating a shared online space where students can access directions and document their work. for a unit or text. for a unit or text. for a unit or text.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Below is a document that details each building block, the objective of that activity, and the technology tools teachers can use to engage students in that type of learning activity online. It would be much easier to support them if I had a document like the one pictured above with all of the information, links, and resources for the week.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I am fortunate to be involved in several long-term projects where I have been able to document growth over time. The reason being to coach the individual(s) later on providing feedback and to ensure interrater reliability (do we see the same thing). Other schools and districts are beginning to follow suit.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

I also curated a document that had comments ready to go aligned to sound pedagogical practice and research where applicable. You can view the template HERE. Note that this template was nowhere near as detailed as the actual tool uses, but it did greatly assist with the write-up process afterward.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

color-coding, setting reminders, embedding links to planning documents) made it exponentially more effective as a planning and organizational tool. Provides a platform where you can organize calendar events and attach links or documents, so everything you need for your lessons is in one place. Please relax and enjoy your summer.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Digital graphic organizers make it possible to give students the option to complete their work offline and insert an image of their work or use the features inside of a digital document or slide deck to complete the activity. Daily Reading Record.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Instead of sharing individual documents, our shared drive provided us with a virtual storage bucket for our resources that we all had access to at any time. I hope this framework, checklist, and planning document help other teams of teachers to successfully collaborate on interdisciplinary projects! interdisciplinaryproject.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

Bunk demonstrates that our discipline matters in ways young people cannot see in textbooks, static documents, and often outdated historiographic debates. Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Create and Share a Planning Document in Advance of the Conversation. One way to help students prepare for an online discussion is with a planning document that is shared like any other assignment at the start of the week. Students may be shy or need more time to process the questions.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 3, 2024

Benefit 3: Collaboration Cloud-based platforms facilitate seamless collaboration among students and educators through shared documents, discussion forums, and real-time feedback, enhancing the learning experience.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It is ideal if both the teacher and student have access to the planning document during the conference. I have created the template in Google Documents so that it is easy to share a copy with every student. During the Conference. Post-conference. I want students to own this conversation whenever possible.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Important Documents Review – Let’s be real. Key documents can be tough for students to remember. US History Important Document Review 5. I LOVE this activity because if you listen closely, you can tell what you need to reteach! This sorting activity allows students to connect the dots and review in a hands-on way!

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

Post-video Activity: After students have seen the video, the post-video activity should encourage them to apply what they learned. This activity can act as a formative assessment strategy to gauge what students learned by watching the video and what gaps or misconceptions still exist that need to be addressed. Google Forms Kahoot!

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Jonan Donaldson sums it up nicely: Terms such as collaborative learning, project-based learning, metacognition, inquiry-based learning, and so on, might be new to some audiences, but they have a relatively long and well-documented history for many educators.

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TeachThought

MAY 16, 2024

A layered text is a digital document that is filled with hyperlinks that communicate, well, just about anything: Questions students have, opportunities for further inquiry, odd references and allusions that reflect the schema students use to make meaning, and so on.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2020

Once they have decided on the question they would like to investigate, they self-pace through the parts of the project and use the slide deck below to document their learning. The goal of this learning cycle is to give students the agency to decide what they want to learn about before the school year officially ends.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques that you wish to see in your classrooms archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations. I made the point of aligning every point of critical feedback to current research.

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