The Innovative Educator

MARCH 8, 2020

Schools being closed is nothing new. At these times teachers, schools, and districts may decide to give students homework packets with various activities. These days we have the Corona Virus looming and already being the cause of school closures in various cities, countries, or just at particular schools.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 12, 2023

Report cards are an important tool to communicate to parents how their child is doing in school. It is also a way to provide feedback to students on their own learning. As we plan group challenges, we want our students to communicate ideas with their group and design creative solutions to problems. Join our Free Facebook Group.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2023

Students have the ability to choose their own characters and other story elements when creating a customized reading passage with Choice Texts. Lower explains, “The result is that the students are invested in reading it right from the beginning. For example, one student asked me, ‘Can I get my journal out and write about this?’

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 29, 2019

Elementari is a wonderful new site for digital storytelling and project based learning. Educators are using this easy-to-use tool to have students create interactive digital stories, digital portfolios, presentations, and even choose-your-own-adventures. I highly recommend checking out Elementari by clicking here !!!

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Kids are learning – but for way too many it occurs outside of the school environment rather than during school. Given today’s technologies, it makes sense and is exciting that learning occurs after schools hours, but for exciting, engaging, and profound learning not to occur during school hours is, simply put, a travesty.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. The pandemic affected every school district in the nation, yet many of the university programs still lack the technology component in their programs three years later. And here lies the problem.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. I used a game to teach my students about the causes behind the start of the First World War. The idea is to get them to think about the different relationships between angles,” Nardolilli says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. hours before the pandemic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The start of a new school year is always busy. New students, new parents, new rules at school–but there’s one more piece that shakes up my education ecosystem: new webtools. Education Galaxy provides online assessment, practice, and instruction in a highly engaging environment for students.

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Chillax Science

MAY 3, 2023

If you are or have been a school teacher, you are probably familiar with the feelings associated with constant changes to the curriculum. Inconsistencies are the reality of many school districts and even private schools. We are now entering another science education trend that arguably will also hurt students learning.

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STEM Sport

OCTOBER 18, 2022

One way to increase student engagement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lessons is to introduce themed activities into the classroom that connect with the current season. In this article, STEM Sports® has curated a list of spooky Halloween themed STEM activities for middle school students.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we tackle a topic that's often whispered in the hallways of schools everywhere with a mix of disdain and necessity: worksheets. Teachers should gradually incorporate these strategies into their teaching to enhance student engagement and learning.

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STEM Education Shopping

JULY 30, 2023

Photo by Markus Winkler: [link] The Best Resources and Strategies Review: Stem Curriculum Guides to Engage Students and Ignite passion for All Lessons (2023) – Are you looking for the best STEM curriculum books guide to enhance your teaching and engage your students? Look no further!

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 5, 2023

Whether your school chooses to add the A for the arts or an R for reading, robotics, or even religion, these are all great ways to provide hands-on learning opportunities for students. Let’s face it, you can’t build a car or a watch, or a school without attention to the arts. The aesthetics of the design process is important.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Students from the three schools where I teach gifted students look forward to it all week long. Here is the slide deck I used with my upper elementary gifted students: Here is the link to the presentation – [link] if you want to use it. It is still going very strong.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Getting to know my students beyond their academic capabilities and seeing them develop into well-rounded humans is a gift. I grew up surrounded by educators, and I always knew there was a special bond that develops between teachers and students. I wondered whether she did classes after school or how she honed this talent.

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STEM Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

and student behavior with the goal of increasing employee satisfaction. The Simplest Elementary School Science EdTech Every day, educators are using digital resources to meaningfully support science teaching and learning—and the best EdTech tools are the ones that are easy to use. from 2023 to 2030.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Virtual reality STEM lessons allow students to engage with complex STEM concepts, learn how to navigate the technology landscape, and how to use technology to benefit their education. The real-world applications offered through virtual reality lessons help students engage using hands-on learning methods.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 11, 2024

YouTube Video This week's guest Brian Page loves to teach personal finance at Reading Community City Schools in Ohio, where he was named the '11 Milken National Educator Recipient and CNN Money Hero. You know, when students are in high school, AP classes are tough. Learn what it means for this to be a sponsored episode.

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

Elementary-aged learners are capable of providing computers with instructions to achieve a specific outcome through code! why is it important to introduce coding in elementary school? We know our littlest learners can code, but why is it important to introduce coding in elementary school? References: Arfé, B.,

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Carly and Adam

MARCH 29, 2022

An observer might walk away and think that students were “just drawing,” even though drawing can be an important part of the planning process for students engaged in engineering and design. Maybe students are twisting pipe cleaners together to create a tree or a bird or gluing popsicle sticks together to make a bridge.

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STEM Sport

APRIL 13, 2023

This article outlines how to gamify the classroom to increase student engagement and retention of complex STEM concepts. Why Gamification Works in STEM Education Gamification combines typical game activities and classroom curriculum/lesson plans to increase student engagement. Using game-based rewards and recognition.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is a core part of a student’s education. Educators are tasked with finding engaging ways to get students interested in STEM learning starting as early as kindergarten and into high school.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We all know that games and fun learning activities are more conducive to meaningful learning experiences and a higher level of students engagement and participation. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class.

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STEM Sport

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Active learning, where students engage in physical activities while learning STEM concepts, results in more profound understanding and retention of information. Through these innovative activities, elementary school children can explore and understand key STEM concepts while engaging in fun and physical play.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. And right now, some district leaders and researchers say that's precisely what both students and teachers need. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated.

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Teachers are Terrific

APRIL 27, 2023

Let’s face it, the end of the year in elementary school is busy, busy, busy. And, it is so hard to keep students engaged. The last two months of school are just jam-packed and busy and chaotic. How do you keep your students engaged in their work? At the end of the school maze- they have escaped!

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STEM Next

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My students and I had been sent home for the rest of the school year. The potatoes we were growing in Martian soil had withered, and so had the student engagement. In desperation to keep science instruction going, I bought foldscopes and told parents they could pick them up at the school—anything to keep the magic alive.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Challenge: Any type of hands-on extension will reinforce student understanding, as well as increase student engagement. One fun challenge is to have students build a maze using magnets. In this STEM Lesson, students design a Maze to connect 2 people using an invisible force, magnetism. Join our Free Facebook Group.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Recently, while discussing the next steps for schools this fall with two instructional designers in the webinar “10 Ways to Move Learning Forward”, we identified ten considerations for school. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education.

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CoderZ

JULY 12, 2021

As the Director for Math and Science at Galena Park Independent School District (I.S.D) in Houston, Texas, Jaqueline spends her time finding ways to break down barriers for students and families. 69% of students at Galena I.S.D. are classified as at risk of dropping out of high school, and 35.5%

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Carly and Adam

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

From free play to curriculum-embedded activities, designing and constructing with bricks is a great way to engage students in hands-on learning. This post will share different types of project ideas for any elementary classroom. Free Play Students can engage in opportunities to play and create.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In today’s educational landscape, teachers often find themselves racing against the clock, juggling lesson plans, assessments, and the ever-important (and sometimes seemingly impossible) task of keeping students engaged. STEM Sports® offers a wide range of STEM kits for K-8 students designed to simplify your lesson planning.

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