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9 EdTech Ideas to Use Now

Spanish and STEAM teacher Rachelle Dene Poth shares her favorite EdTech tools

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9 EdTech Ideas to Use Now with Rachelle Rene Poth

Spanish and STEAM teacher Rachelle Dene Poth shares 9 of her favorite EdTech ideas that you can easily use now, no matter what your classroom environment requirements are. Teachers are looking for easy and helpful resources, and right now with so much going on searching for the best solutions ca...

Smiling Behind the Mask: Face to Face School and SEL

Fourth Grade Teacher Erica Boomsma Talks about Face to Face School

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Smiling Behind the Mask: Face to Face School and SEL with Erica Boomsma

Erica Boomsma is in South Dakota where they have been teaching in face-to-face school for the last four weeks. She talks about the fears she had in going back, the protocols they are using, and the positive experiences they are having amidst the masks and shields. Face to face school ...

Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin

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Creating Your Own Tutoring and TeachingCompany with Megan Padden-Shin

Megan Padden-Shin has successfully built a tutoring and teaching company during the past two years. She talks about the challenges of building her business and how she’s now arrived at a place where she’s making more money than she did as a teacher in a traditional school. She talks about what her day looks like, gives advice to educators starting the...

Research Based Strategies for Distance Learning with Dr. Matthew Rhoads

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Research-Based Strategies for Distance Learning with Dr. Matthew Rhoads

Dr. Matthew Rhoads is teaching at a distance and coaching other teachers to improve their teaching as well. Based in San Diego, Dr. Rhoads talks about how to integrate instructional strategies, have a teacher toolbox, how to show teachers technology, using Google Jamboard to brainstorm, how to observe and model online teaching for teachers. Addition...

Research on Returning to School After Natural Disasters with Dr. Brianna Kurtz

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Education Renaissance: Research on Returning toSchool After Natural Disasters with Dr. BriannaKurtz

Dr. Brianna Kurtz, classroom teacher and researcher, studied “global practices in returning to formal schooling after interruptions in education due to natural disasters.” She studied students displaced after Hurricane Maria and what helped them resume schooling successfully. Today, she shares what we can learn from her r...

Don’t Fall Out of the Boat: Lessons for Life with Vicki Davis

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https://www.coolcatteacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/dont-fall-out-of-the-boat-1.mp4Don’t Fall Out of the Boat with Vicki Davis

Today’s 700th-anniversary message is a gift to teachers, educators, and parents everywhere. This show is a lifeline for those who need an anchor of purpose. Teachers have been confiding in Vicki that in such a turbulent time as this, many of them feel like they’re careening along in a raft...

Creativity Now with Best Selling Author Sean Thompson

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Creativity Now with Best Selling Author Sean Thompson

 

Sean Thompson, author of Creativity is Everything, talks about his first day back at school and how he is bringing creativity, physical and emotional wellbeing to his students. He also shares free courses you can use with your students and ways you can bring creativity into your classroom now.

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Feedback Tips for Blended and Online Learning

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Feedback is important. But how do teachers give it frequently and in ways that help students learn? How can teachers have time and get this done with all that is going on this Fall 2020? Today, Matthew Johnson, author of Flash Feedback, shares his advice to help get close to kids through feedback and connections in our digital classrooms. It can be done!

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Hands On Ecology at a Distance

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As you adapt lesson plans for distance learning, ecology offers great opportunities for backyard learning and learning at a distance. Today, Sara Owen talks about stream walks and outdoor classroom opportunities and how she uses the outdoors to teach.

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Writing: Teaching it Right Now

Dr. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl from the National Writing Project Teaches Us How

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Writing has a powerful place in our classrooms right now. Dr. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl talks about the types of writing, research about writing, and how we can teach writing in the unique spaces and places we find ourselves this Fall 2020 in schools everywhere. No matter your teaching situation, you’ll find some ways that you can bring writing into your...