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Transform Your Google Calendar into a Digital Planner

Catlin Tucker

That leaves a small window of time for all of the other tasks and responsibilities that teachers have to juggle, including planning and designing lessons. . Planning is critical to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. As a result, any tool that streamlines and organizes this work is appreciated.

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5 Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right

Cult of Pedagogy

” Ideally, she says, teachers should have a plan B written into their lesson plans, a next step for what to do for students who show that they aren’t getting it. ” David-Lang says. “You can’t just say, I taught it and then it was learned. It was not learned.”

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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) You can access and download the form HERE if you wish. and had staff create portfolios to show growth and changes to practice.

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NewseumED’s Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy

Catlin Tucker

NewseumED is committed to helping students “learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources” and supporting teachers in putting “current events in historical context through standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes, and programs.”

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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. Even better, before you download, you can also customize the icons with whatever colors you like!

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

” Sending emails, weekly newsletters, or using the school phone to communicate are great communication alternatives if they cannot download one of these apps. Sometimes teachers have to stay after school to complete lesson planning, grading, copying, or other tasks that they might not have been able to finish during the day.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

Spierenburg, whose company helped support the development of the app explains that every activity is directly aligned with a standard and has an accompanying lesson plan in Verizon Innovative Learning HQ , a free online education portal empowering educators to help bring new ways of learning and next-gen tech into the learning experience.