A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

What many people also don’t realize is that even though all eyes were on the digital aspects of our transformation, it was the continuous focus on improving teaching and learning that ultimately led to results. 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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Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

He also held numerous visiting professorships throughout his career and spent short periods teaching mathematics at universities around the globe. According to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, he was in great demand to give visiting lectures at mathematical societies, colleges, and universities across the world.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

3 Human-recorded audio with synchronized highlighting on Studies Weekly Online Primary Source Analysis Worksheets Download these free easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. DOWNLOAD RESOURCE The post Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important? The Thomas B.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

I would argue this is a critical skill we need to be teaching in schools to ensure that our students develop the skills necessary to be informed consumers of media. ” The Fact Finder: Your Foolproof Media Literacy Guide has 11 separate multimedia lessons designed using the 5 E’s constructivist instructional model.

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Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

For years, I ended my unit on Reconstruction by teaching about the controversial election of 1876 leading to the Compromise of 1877. 6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History. Following the Jan.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

It may seem simple, but the ability to use printed, colored text and images when teaching social studies is incredibly impactful, she explains. Studies Weekly does an excellent job of incorporating age-appropriate text and engaging activities, and I loved exploring the online components that make it such a robust program.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

All students deserve to learn how to be safe on the internet, and by starting to teach cybersecurity early, we hope they will gain the confidence and skills needed to stay safe online. Do not click on links or download items from senders you do not know. I often say it takes a village to keep students safe online.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

All the while, they were teaching kids to code. If they can download an app, then they can use the robot to help teach coding.”. Finally, despite being geared to beginning coders, AERobot required at least some technical acumen to teach and troubleshoot in class. The post Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code?

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. ” Sending emails, weekly newsletters, or using the school phone to communicate are great communication alternatives if they cannot download one of these apps. Parents love to receive different forms of positive communication. every weekday.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

They have discovered that the download-and-use resources allow them to take a break from the constant lesson-planning and creation. Teaching, particularly in the first year, can be grueling. Related: The exhausting life of a first-year teacher. Related: Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

She was talking about how my website and podcast sometimes make her feel like she’s not doing enough, she’s doing it all wrong, her teaching is never quite good enough. Something like teaching. Do they seem excited about the thing they’re teaching? The opposite is also true. Do they ask challenging questions?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

who teaches a high school vocational course in hydroponics and aquaculture. My students can collect data on the farm from anywhere, whenever they want to,” said Marcoux, who teaches a vocational course (worth one science credit) in hydroponics and aquaculture. Graeme Marcoux, of Salem, Mass.,

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. Subscriptions give you access to all the resources and lessons plans you need for US History.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

If you recognize one of these common approaches to group work in your own teaching style, give it a tweak and pay attention to the impact your subtle change makes on the effectiveness of group work. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. Come back for more.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

If they love trucks and cars, teach them the names of every truck and car you see. In everything we do, we want to focus like a flashlight in a dark room on exactly what we are teaching. Use the 3-period lesson to teach the vocabulary but then, have the cards out so the child can look at them on their own. Make sense?

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

This one-day lesson plan was developed in Spring 2024 by Dr. Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The election would mark the first of Franklin D.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So, if you teach daily 45-minute classes, you might need to break up each day’s lesson over two periods. The lessons are designed to be easy to understand quickly, so you don’t need to slog through a bunch of pages to find out how to teach with the materials. That is based on longer block-scheduled classes.

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ACRE

MAY 1, 2023

Mike Casey, Professor of Finance at the University of Central Arkansas, developed a set curriculum units for teaching personal finance topics to Arkansas students based on the state’s personal finance educational standards. trade school, associate’s degree, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, doctorate) Click here to Download materials

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ACRE

MAY 1, 2023

Mike Casey, Professor of Finance at the University of Central Arkansas, developed a set curriculum units for teaching the basics of Taxation and Public Finance using a variety of hands-on projects and activities. 4 Complete work related forms (W4, I9, Medical Forms, Life Insurance Forms, Retirement Forms Click here to Download materials

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds. Earlier this fall, Tozier’s instructor had to travel for her other job and was teaching from afar. That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. There are a lot of teachers who will say, ‘I was hired to teach math, not to be an adviser or a therapist to a bunch of kids,’ ” Berger said.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Based on that feedback, UCA Family & Consumer Sciences Professor Dr. Kathryn Carroll developed an in-depth content review, hands-on simulation, and several additional resources specifically designed to teach budgeting in Arkansas classroom. Are you teaching a course that embeds personal finance standards this semester?

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

You might have seen all of the memes about the full moon, Friday the 13th, and the week before winter break all happening in one big whirlwind – and I hope you are making it through this eventful season of teaching! So many teachable moments come up unexpectedly – something I love about teaching. Get it here.

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Edthena

MARCH 3, 2016

We came to this work via our existing partners who were already using edTPA, and they asked us to build a solution that went well beyond offering a way to download the edTPA handbooks. Program resources, like a standardized lesson plan template, are also available. We include copies of templates as needed. Dashboards?

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

JUNE 28, 2017

In this post: Pacing Guides Fourth Grade Morning Work Reading Writing Guided Math & Workshops Social Studies & Science Classroom Management Top Ten Resources Pacing Guides It’s hard to start the year without a plan, so you can download example fourth grade pacing guides here. There is so much flexibility!

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Teaching Irish American History Mar. This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today. 10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The Penguin Random House High School Collection , which both Lewis and Torres worked on, is a curated set of thematically grouped texts and lesson plans that go beyond the literary canon to incorporate a wide range of texts that represent different experiences, characters, and cultures. ” Come back for more.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2017

The recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) further clarified what almost everyone in the world of education already knew: the way we are teaching students is causing them to fall behind. Nevertheless, the way we teach today in more or less the same arcane way we have for over a century.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

At the same time, these tools should preserve the intrinsic aspects of teaching, empowering educators with the insights needed to quickly gain a good understanding of students and intervene when needed.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With political topics as polarizing as they are right now, it is understandable for teachers to want to try to avoid them and just stick to the lesson plan. Elections present unique opportunities for educators to teach students how to engage with others across complex, sensitive topics because they are current and pull from real life.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

“Educators were kept engaged through WhatsApp groups and sent videos of themselves teaching post-training,” says Rewane. Startups like GoMyCode, out of Tunisia, or Kibo School, which works with learners in Africa, teach coding and tech skills, and source tutors directly from their own alumni pipelines. hours to 10 minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. This story also appeared in The New York Times. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. Adam Sanchez found this to be the case when he started teaching U.S. percent of American workers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Led by Micah Ross, a biology teacher, the academy was piloting an app-based pandemic simulation, part of Operation Outbreak , a platform of lessons on infectious diseases and the public health response to their spread. Related: Learning to teach from naughty avatars. In late 2019, reality caught up with Operation Outbreak.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Though comprehensive sex education has been stripped from some brick-and-mortar classrooms, lesson plans and digital resources compiled by experts have migrated online. After more than two years of pandemic learning, we know that online education and digital tools have revolutionized how young people learn and how educators teach.

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