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April 15, 2020
Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home
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Research says that when students are engaged in service-learning, their immune system, heart rate and sense of well-being improves dramatically. Children are happiest when they feel a sense of purpose. Here are ten tips to help kids experience these positive benefits even while stuck at home.
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Helping Kids Be Healthy and Whole While Learning from Home
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Students can sense and even internalize the emotions their teachers are feeling, especially stress, depression, and worry. Not only do we need to help kids stay physically healthy, but we also need to help them stay emotionally healthy. SEL expert Dr. Kim Schonert-Reichl unpacks the concepts of stress contagion, the importance of routines, co-rumination and other SEL topics to help us better help todays students.
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How to Use Wizer to Create Digital Worksheets that Differentiate Instruction
An Interview and Demo Interview with Nira Sheleg
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Teachers who want to upload packets and make them easy for self grading will find a friend in Wizer.me. Also, those who believe in differentiated instruction, multiple ways of asking (and answering questions) like text, voice, and video, and the ability for teachers to share with each other will love Wizer. In this blog post, Ill share the 20-minute demo I recorded...
April 14, 2020
SEL and Physical Exercise – 8 weeks of Free Lessons
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Social-emotional learning is a vital part of health and wellness. Todays guest has some free word of the day SEL workouts for students. As students stay home, learn some ideas to help students be healthier at home during this time with some videos you can share with the students.
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Math can be taught online. In todays show, Noelle Pickering shares free ideas for teaching middle school math online. These ideas will help you teach math no matter where you or your students are online.
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Community and #RemoteLearning Conversations with Brad Currie
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How do teachers share information quickly as they have had to move to distance learning amid coronavirus school closures? Brad Currie shares how teachers are sharing #remotelearning best practices as well as what is happening with him and his school in New Jersey.
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April 12, 2020
What Montana State Teacher of the Year Dylan Huisken Says Is Happening There
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Montana State Teacher of the Year, Dylan Huisken talks about online distance education learning. He shares how he is connecting with students during the Coronavirus crisis as students and teachers stay home and work to connect for learning in Montana.
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Oregon was one of the earliest states to have to release students to learn from home. How are teachers handling things during coronavirus distance learning? Today, Oregon teacher Tyler Cienfuegos shares what is happening in Oregon and how they are working through issues in his state and at his school.
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April 11, 2020
10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices
Video and Infographic
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Teachers are moving from face to face classrooms to online classrooms quickly. Top online course designers who have also taught face to face tell us how. I had so many people ask for the video. Here is the video and infographic to help you.
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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray
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What is happening at the US policy level with the coronavirus health crisis? Today, US policy influencer Tom Murray, shares what hes seeing from the national level and the conversations that are happening as policymakers wrestle with the issues that concern us all.
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