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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

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Show Notes Hosts, Guests & Featured People: Penny Reinart – [ bio ] [ blog ] Robert Letcher [ bio ] Resources: ASCD Whitsby Modern Classrooms – the show sponsor today News: ASCD Unveils Witsby Transcript Hello there, fellow knowledge-seekers! Are you ready to explore modern pedagogy and center students in your classroom?

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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

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Today’s topic brings these two together. “A Understandably, this research is good news for those who believe in SEL. Parents Don't Like the Term “Social Emotional Learning” What is the bad news, you ask? Understandably, this research is good news for those who believe in SEL. What is the bad news, you ask?

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Genius Hour 2.0 with Lauren LaVelle

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and how it's integrated into the sixth-grade curriculum. — 00:02:09:14 – 00:02:33:03 Lauren: And then we also had the previous seventh graders come, a couple of them, and they presented and kind of just on a variety of topics. Because that could really still be a passion, interest, you know, something they want to change.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

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In a recent news article, Andrea noted that her struggling readers in grades 7-8 used to read at a grade 5 or 6 (Barshay). We need to challenge and encourage kids to stretch and read about a topic that they are more interested in reading about. Literal App Use coolcat for a free account. Is reading stamina a need in today's classroom?

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How Does Acceleration Research Help Schools and Kids Rebound?

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And the good news is that the acceleration research is robust. And then based on that, what do you already know about this topic or what do you think is going to be easy or hard about this topic? Such an important topic. So that's that we know that there's unrealized potential. So what does it tell us? Nancy: Thank you.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

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So wow, that's great news. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. There's a link there where Figma will do your class rosters and create all that stuff in the background and do it for free. Thank you for telling me that.

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AI in VR and AR with Rachelle Dené Poth

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So it's a nice combo of all of those topics. And those were the biggest topics that I found. So let's shift to another topic that I'm personally passionate about which is I personally have some concerns with the anthropomorphism of AI. You know, uh, anyway, that's, and that's a totally, totally different topic.