Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 16, 2022

Re-create yourself for a better tomorrow. Check out these courses to help you: Becoming a Calm, Happy Teacher Self Care Strategies for Teachers Beyond Survival Mode: Maintaining Your Passion Throughout Your Teaching Career From Burnout to Productivity: Maintaining a Path for Teacher Wellness. So, why not rest and do it early.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

Working as a World Languages teacher, my job is to erase the pressures of perfectionism that impede our students’ progress toward language fluency and proficiency. Building Community to Overcome Perfection Brene Brown once said , “Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. Key strengths include relationship-building and growing a team's creative capacity rooted in the design thinking mindsets.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

As a current STEM teacher in North New Jersey and a Google Certified Trainer, Billy focuses on implementing cutting-edge instructional design and is co-author of “connecting Your Students with the Virtual World.” Passionate about maximizing productivity, efficiency, and service quality in educational settings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

You might be wondering if there’s a better way to engage all learners. Some students are visual learners, digesting information better when they see it in graphs, charts, and pictures. Still others are kinesthetic learners, who understand better through physical activity or hands-on experience.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

When Schools Don't Invest in the Arts, It Harms Students Evidence shows that arts education builds empathy, promotes healthy social development and helps students engage with others, but unfortunately, not all students have access. What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2023

In today’s fast-paced world, modern-day kids have unprecedented access to electronic devices that can serve as valuable tools in their learning journey. This limited engagement with others could affect their ability to build relationships or develop essential communication skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Summer jobs for many high schoolers (myself included) was a right of passage, where we stuck our toe into the adult work-a-day world for a brief period before returning to school for more education. Internship Experiences in Your Field of Interest An internship is an excellent way to gain real-world experience while still in high school.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 7, 2024

Tom also emphasizes the need to recognize and support the many and various backgrounds of our students and the need to build trust over time. Tom is a compelling presenter, infusing his message of hope with strategies culled from the real world. We can view every student as a success story and move from relying totally on consequences.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Harnessing its learnings from KA Lite, the organization has evolved and expanded its impact by developing an ecosystem of open products and tools called Kolibri. Lichtman applies her own experience building relationships to her passion for identifying solutions that break down barriers to quality learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

Our report doesn’t say exactly what needs to be in the content, but it's clear that there needs to be a focus in this area,” Reich says, “and they have to have more of a prevention and capacity-building component rather than just an intervention later.” While the U.S.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

To better relate, we have to understand where students are emotionally so that we can connect with them , get them any extra help they might need, and move them forward. Understanding student mental health can also help us with others who we meet in our world today. (I’ve embedded the webinar below for you to review.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Learning a second language is a challenge, whether it be English, Russian, or any of the hundreds of world languages we find across the globe. As a result, students get a better understanding of the language because they’re in a comfortable and supportive environment. The question becomes: How to make that happen? Use an app?

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 17, 2022

World language teachers can have challenges with teaching students. However, Rachelle Dene Poth has experience engaging and exciting students in her Spanish classroom From building relationships to using technology, she shares how Spanish teachers can engage students in learning. Advancement Courses - Podcast Sponsor.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A PC is a cost-effective way for a student to enter the world of computers because it’s usually a few hundred dollars lower than a Mac with similar specs. A standard PC is usually more powerful than a standard Mac, with a faster processor, more ports, better graphics card, greater memory, and bigger hard drive space. PCs Are Cheaper.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In a world where the mental health of our youth is becoming an increasingly pressing concern, Dr. Brian Smith's podcast couldn't come at a more critical time. Smith's formula is both comprehensive and compelling. Stream by clicking here.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

There are always new products coming out in the edtech landscape, but somehow a couple software platforms monopolize the industry and are used by teachers everywhere, leaving smaller companies and edtech startups facing an uphill battle. But this is not an ideal world. A version of this article was originally published on Medium.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

00;01;23;22 – 00;01;48;12 Justin Reich Vicki That's never how teaching and learning get better. Still, the only people who can make teaching and learning better are classroom teachers, our paraprofessionals, our librarians, or the people who are actually working with students every day. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And slow to build. There’s a man down in Texas who thinks he’s found a way to build one. After years of thinking and tinkering, coding and categorizing, he and his team are ready to share their job-skills machine with the world. We want to build this thing that you’d be crazy not to use. And hard to maintain.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

The COVID pandemic has brought a rush of new people interested in building tools and businesses to help improve education. Sustaining these innovations takes communities that have become harder to build in these times of remote work and lingering pandemic concerns.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 6, 2024

KEY POINTS Focus on real-world applications of math concepts. APPLY IT TO THE REAL WORLD Math often involves plugging numbers into formulas and solving for variables, which can often cause students to lose sight of its real-world application. Keep it interesting – not memorization-driven. Encourage teamwork among students.

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Bright and Smart

APRIL 10, 2024

It's National Robotics Week , and we're diving headfirst into the exciting world of robots! It's National Robotics Week , and we're diving headfirst into the exciting world of robots! During National Robotics Week, we get to marvel at the incredible inventions that are shaping our world.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you've ever wondered how to prepare your students for the real-world challenges of budgeting, investing, and understanding debt, this episode is your roadmap to making money management an engaging and essential part of your teaching. The world of returns is perched in an ivory tower, inaccessible to most investors.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 22, 2022

Furthermore, entrepreneurship has historically spurred minorities, women and immigrants to create better lives for themselves and their families. ( But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

We'll explore how you can harness the power of both ‘cold' and ‘warm' data to not only understand your students better but also to significantly improve their performance. From tackling chronic absenteeism to boosting math proficiency rates, data-driven instruction is a game-changer. Stay tuned!

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Ellipsis Education

MARCH 28, 2024

CODiE Finalists represent the best products, services and people in the Education and Business Technology Industries. “The 2024 CODiE Award Finalists are a showcase of those products and individuals who have been identified by industry experts as being at the forefront of innovation. For more information, visit [link].

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Edward Gonzalez There has been some progress in the human-centered design movement, Raña says, where companies involve the end-users in a product's design — but she argues that the edtech landscape needs to do much more when it comes to designing for Latino and Black children. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

While state- and district-level leaders are investing in technology solutions to help their schools recover and meet students where they are, the problem is that not all edtech products are created equal. Teachers and students should not be test subjects for unproven products.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

And at the same time, we're trying to bring better computing experiences for those already with devices, as well as introduce mixed reality—both virtual and augmented—as key facets of immersive learning. It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

On this podcast extra, we bring you the results of a year-long research project into how to better design college-to-career pathways. Power, Prestige and the World's Most Famous Scholarship. Young The Rhodes Scholarship was designed to forge a network of people who would go on to rule the world. They want good lives.

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PCS Edventures

APRIL 16, 2024

Whether it’s coding robots or exploring the world beyond classroom walls, STEM sparks curiosity and creativity, putting an end to that dreaded “summer slide.” Through scaffolded lessons and the engineering design process, learners collaborate to build robots that move, sense and adapt. Summer is all about having fun, right?

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

After all, they’re spoiled by their easy access to scholarship, and they forget that as soon as their students graduate and leave campus, “you’re sort of expelled from the digital paradise of the university world into that bleak, non-accessible world.” And fittingly, his publisher made a version of the book available free online.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. 00:00:03:14 – 00:00:32:10 Vicki Davis The future is now preparing our youngest scholars for a digital world. Episode 860.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Timothy Knowles “If you actually believe that premise — that learning is happening everywhere and not just in six-hour time increments for nine months of the year — then you need to build tools that build trust that the learning that is happening outside of school time is real,” Knowles says. “It That would be a very risky proposition.”

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STEM Education Shopping

JANUARY 26, 2024

Engineering, and Math In today’s fast-paced world, it’s more important than ever to equip our children with the skills they need to succeed in the future. And what better way to introduce these concepts to young minds than through play? What are STEM Building Blocks?

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 4, 2023

Today's guest, Tom Mullaney, shares how he uses Figjam with students and teachers; he explains why it is useful and gives tips and tricks that will engage students in the collaborative skills they need to be creative collaborators in today's world. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is Figjam?

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Beyond initial engagement, it is also essential for students to find ways to connect lessons to real-world experiences and issues. One effective way to get students excited about STEM and think critically about how these lessons connect to the world around them is through STEM community service projects.

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