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August 15, 2016
FREE WEBINAR: Differentiating Instruction with Technology
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You are invited to attend my free live webinar, Differentiating Instruction with Technology. This is one of my most popular sessions that I share at conferences. Register Now 01 Days 00 Hours 14 Minutes 03 Seconds Webinar is past! Learn how to build a classroom framework of tech tools so you can reach every child. […]
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How to Unleash Student Intrinsic Motivation from Day One
Global Teacher Prize Finalist Mike Soskil Shares His Secrets
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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You can unleash a student intrinsic motivation from the first day of school. First, you start the school year with authentic connections. Second, you create a culture of learning. In today’s episode, Mike Soskil, award-winning science teacher and Global Teacher prize finalist, shares his ideas for starting school.
Additionally, he shares secrets for crea...
August 5, 2016
ALERT: Fundraising Program With Clorox And DonorsChoose.org
A great fundraising idea for schools
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Clorox has an awesome new way to help teachers. First, if you’re a high-need school, learn how to double your impact on your DonorsChoose.org project to take advantage of the$100,000 donation from Clorox, GLAD and Hidden Valley to Donorschoose.org. Second, learn about theClorox receipt program that can help raise money for your school’s projects (or just give you some cash back...
The Amazing Benefits of Student Created Classroom Design
Back to School Classroom Design -- sponsored by Carson-Dellosa
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Sixth graders created their own classroom design. Not only were these kids excited to come to school, but they got passionate about learning! Furthermore, the results in Catherine Stanley’s classroom should make us all wonder why more of us don’t let our students customize their classrooms.
As an example of how you should share YOUR successes, this ep...
August 4, 2016
Overcoming the Biggest Barriers to Effective Parent Teacher Relationships
Start the School Year Right -- Sponsored by @BloomzApp
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Social media and technology have changed parent-teacher relationships. If you’re smart, you can harness their power. Today, educator Joe Mazza shares how you can overcome barriersto creating successful partnerships with parents. Joe believes is not our job as an educator to dictate where someone wants to get their information about the school. We should be fle...
August 3, 2016
Back to School Twitter Party tonight 8/3 at 7pm EDT
#StaplesforStudents Twitter Party with $2,000 in Give aways
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Tonight Erin Klein and I are hosting a Twitter party with @Staples and @DonorsChoose. We’ll be using the #StaplesforStudents hashtag. We’ll give away $2,000 in prizes to some lucky members of the chat. We have:
8 $100 Staples Gift Cards 8 $75 Donorschoose.org Gift Cards 1 $500 Staples Gift Card 1 $100 Donorschoose.org Gift Card
August 1, 2016
Back to School Advice for Principals and Teachers
Start #back2school strong
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Heading back to school with the right attitude is vital to our success as educators.These are important days, days that change everything. Educator, your importance is tremendous!
You know why you’re so important? Well, you canchange everything about a kid’s life. There are few turning points in life. First days of school are often life-changers.
This summer, afather told me a heartbreaki...
July 28, 2016
3 Top Tips to Make Writing Exciting
Collaboration, Commenting, and a Global Audience
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Learning writing canbe exciting! Kids can love writing. Now, students can easily join writing communities. After joining, students find that commenting on another student’s writing can be fun. Teacher-librarian, Cynthia Alvarado, shows us how to make writing exciting for kids. Additionally, she’ll also teach us her tips and tricks for coaching kids to level up writi...
July 27, 2016
6 Ways to Get the Most out of Back to School Shopping @Staples
Prepare for Back to School
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Prepare for back to school by getting the supplies (and the rewards) to help you and your classroom succeed. These tips and tricks will help you shop at my FAVORITE school supply shopping store — Staples! Get out your pencil. Follow these links and make your Staples shopping list now. Here we go.
1. Stock Up on Essential Supplies I’ve pictured supplies from the Staples “Less List.” These...
July 22, 2016
How to Turn off Blue Light on Your iPhone/ Ipad at Night
Keep Your Phone from Waking You Up
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis
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Not sleeping? You might need to turn off blue light on your phone. This week, I was interviewing John Medina, author of Brain Rules, for a future episode of Every Classroom Matters. He made the offhand comment, “blue light wreaks havoc with your brain.” We’ve known this since 2006, This Psychology Today article can help explain why your teenager may be awake ALL NIGHT.
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