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Battling Blended Learning Burnout and Finding Balance

Cool Cat Teacher

Tiffany Wycoff, the co-author of the bestselling book, Blended Learning in Action , talks about the state of blended learning today. She shares how some teachers are battling blended learning burnout but that it is necessary for learning today and how we move forward. Sponsor: Screencastify.

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Blended Learning Best Practices During the Pandemic with Thomas Arnett

Cool Cat Teacher

Thomas Arnett from the Christensen Institute Shares What the Insitute has learned from administrators and teachers about best practices for teaching during the pandemic. This year, I introduced the free screencasting tool, Screencastify, the first week of school to all of my students so they could record screencasts.

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New Directory of Innovative School Models Aims to Encourage Experimentation

ED Surge

There’s a greater appetite to try new educational models as schools try to adjust to the social and emotional needs of students returning from periods of pandemic lockdowns and other disruptions of the past few years. But before schools can try out new models, schools have to know what’s out there.

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Lessons from My Classroom: What Works, What Doesn’t and What I’m Doing Now

Cool Cat Teacher

If you've been following my blog, you know I want to bring practical, innovative teaching strategies to life. And for a bit of fun, meet CAT GPT, my very own Content AI Taskhelper – a personal assistant I've created with a blend of my own educational beliefs and research-backed best practices.

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An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools

The Innovative Educator

Photograph: David Chang/EPA The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on reopening of schools will require innovative thinking to re-imagine how schools may open in the upcoming school year and beyond. That's because we've learned that we don't quite know what's ahead of us.

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Using a Student-Centered Approach to Promote Computational Thinking

ED Surge

In the process, students develop persistence and creativity while teachers connect their learning with professional standards aligned with ISTE micro-credentials. Such a mindset change can eventually produce a more innovative learning and teaching approach across other areas.

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Rebound: How Do Schools Bounce Back after the Pandemic?

Cool Cat Teacher

Acceleration research can teach us how to accelerate learning. Dr. Douglas Fisher, co-author of the best-selling book Rebound, Grades K-12: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools. Instead of learning loss, Dr. Fisher is advocating how we can accelerate learning.

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