
Instructional Innovation Coach @rosetreemedia. Schoology Ambassador. True passion = intersection of curriculum and technology. *views=mine*
Pennsylvania, USA
Joined December 2011
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Fun start for our new computer science course! Students are using the engineering design process to build a structure out of newspaper and masking tape. We had a competition to see which structure could support the most books!
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Great to start the week with an Advisory team building activity. Pumpkin-decorating is in full force!
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Remote learning during a health crisis is NOT new. Check out this interesting article about radio instruction during the polio epidemic:
theconversation.com/remote-l…
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Education can’t go back to business as usual. We can’t go back to March 2020.
We have to BUILD BACK WISER!
#ImpactTeams #BelongingThruDignity #Ground2Connect @TheSocialCore @MimiToddPress – at Palm Springs, CA
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👋 Hey, Ts! Share your favorite way to promote engagement with your Ss – or something new you're trying this semester!
(Inspiration via educator @MissStephan)
#InstantPD #StudentVoice #DistanceLearning
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Gather more evidence of learning than you need. Don’t grade it all. Save some for backups, as needed.
We make missing assignments a bigger deal than they should be.
They indicate a barrier, either behavioral or circumstances.
They don’t indicate any level of learning.
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Reminder that students and teachers continue to live through a dystopian novel. Maybe we should chill with the standardized testing and evaluations?
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If Ss are showing signs of success with reduced content and a slower pace...
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Heard someone today say, “The kids are going to be so behind when they get back.”
But, we recognize that the only thing they’re behind is our own perception of where they should be, right?
The content we assign to grade levels isn’t inherent to age. We did that. We can undo it.
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Replying to @L_D_Washington
They will need to find teachers that ONLY have to do virtual teaching. We cannot continue to ask teachers to teach both virtually and face to face. Either dedicate part of your staff to virtual learning or find another way to serve those students. This is not sustainable. – at McKinney, TX
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Lesson idea: have students select a meaningful photograph, meme, tweet, or IG posting and write next to it. Why do they deem their selection "meaningful"? Why is this selection worth talking about?
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Hey #teachers! Do you use a great #remotelearning or #hybridlearning strategy with your students? We'd love to share it with educators around the country! Share your idea with TLA by Feb. 1 and you could win an Amazon gift card. For more info: bit.ly/3pZR8Lm
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Replying to @PADeptofEd
Then let teachers get vaccinated sooner. You cannot make this recommendation without providing safety and security for teachers.
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Welcome Back, Rose Tree Media students and staff! We hope you had a safe, relaxing and enjoyable #Winter Break.
January #1
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🟦 @SlidesCarnival has an interactive Jeopardy template for PowerPoint and Google Slides. (via @rmbyrne)
slidescarnival.com/jeopardy-…
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Dedicated to the women who do the hard work every day, to the women who push the limits, who break rules, who pave new ways—keep being who you are. We support you. #hertimeisnow @hertime2020 #WomenInSTEM #WomenInMedicine
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Dear colleagues at Temple:
If you have an exam scheduled for your students tomorrow, you need to postpone it.
You will not be assessing knowledge. You’ll be assessing exhaustion, a commitment to democracy, and a million other things.
Your exams can wait a week. Thank you.
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Our own @maggiesmithpoet wrote the knockout poem of 2016, and we wanted to share it again today.
"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith:






























