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Articles by Michele Eaton
Trailblazer Tribune - September 19, 2022
Trailblazer Tribune - September 19, 2022 🔗Link to This Week's Newsletter Good morning, Trailblazers! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are ready for a productive week ahead.
Powerful, Lesser-Known Tech Tools for Teachers
You’ve probably been teaching online or with blended approaches for months now. That means you are probably familiar with Google tools, Flipgrid, Nearpod—the usual suspects of remote learning. Those tools are all fantastic and have been pillars during this unprecedented time in education. There’s plenty of reason to explore other options, however, no matter how good the standbys are.
4 tips for blended learning success
This school year (and likely the early part of 2021) continues to look different for each and every school, and even if those schools are in the same district. Despite these differences, we all shared three major challenges: the need to teach both face-to-face and online (sometimes concurrently); collaborate and connect while social distancing; and remain fluid, flexible, and agile in an evolving learning environment.
The Pandemic Adds a Lot of Constraints for Schools. That Opens the Door to Creativity. - EdSurge News
As someone who has dedicated her career to helping educators leverage online and blended learning to transform their classrooms, this pandemic has certainly provided an opportunity to do the work I love most. Let’s be honest, though. Just because most of us had no option but to take learning to an online or blended format doesn’t mean this is the perfect environment for it.
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Teaching in an online world – it’s getting real - Learning Forward
When most schools and districts shut down last month in response to a global pandemic none of us knew how long this would last or what the ramifications would be for PreK-12 education. We still don’t. Educators across the world began to prepare for, what was for most, completely unknown territory. The response was swift as schools and districts tried to provide first for the most basic and immediate needs for students – food and safety. But what about the learning?
Giving New Teachers an Edge with a Centralized Learning Hub
Share this Page Expert Viewpoint Giving New Teachers an Edge with a Centralized Learning Hub Six ways school districts can increase new teachers' success odds by pairing them up with a centralized learning hub that supports the curriculum, high-stakes standardized testing, and classroom instruction. By Michele Eaton 01/23/19 Being a new teacher is not easy.
5 steps to implement OER in your LMS
As open educational resources (OER) become a more viable option for K-12 school districts that want to adopt new resources, curating these “free” and “open” educational assets has become increasingly difficult. With the U.S. Department of Education making a clear push for OER via its #GoOpen campaign, where districts take on the challenge of replacing at least one textbook with OER, the need for reliable vetting and selection tools has grown exponentially.
From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning
How do you find educators who want to completely rethink our notions of what a school is and design something entirely new? That was the question gnawing at Scott Benson two years ago when he ran into his friend—and fellow senior leader in education—Aylon Samouha in a hallway at the iNacol conference in Orlando. “Aylon was in the early phase of founding what became Transcend Education,” says Benson, a managing partner for NewSchools Venture Fund.
Want to Give Students More Voice and Choice? Start with Teachers - EdSurge News
Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Or, in other words, we lecture teachers on the merits of ditching the lecture. Conversations around personalized learning are nothing new for the staff at the M.S.D. of Wayne Township in Indianapolis.
What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project
Hover over a state to see an article written by an author from that state If you're in education, chances are you've heard the term "personalized learning." But what does that phrase mean? What does "personalized learning" look like from coast to coast, classroom to classroom? For the last few years, we’ve collected stories written by educators—edtech coordinators, librarians, superintendents and others—from all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction - EdSurge News
Jackie, the team captain of St. Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold.
Bio-sensing gives new meaning to 'breaking a sweat'
Air Force Research Laboratory researcher, Dr. Joshua Hagen, holds up a sweat sensor prototype. AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing and the University of Cincinnati conducted the first successful human trials of the usable sweat sensor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Feb. 11. The results of the trial are promising, not only for future 711th research efforts, but for the Air Force and its sister services.
7 steps to creating PLCs teachers want to use
Ed. note: Innovation In Action is a new monthly column from the International Society of Technology in Education focused on exemplary practices in education. At my district, the MSD of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, we have found that changing the way we think about teacher training not only benefits staff developers and administrators, but schools, the district as a whole, teachers, and ultimately students.
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