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August 22, 2018

Kelly Jones' Kindergarten!

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Diagnostic Done? Now What?

Many resources for using your diagnostic data can be found here.

http://i-readycentral.com/articles/using-diagnostic-data/

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15 Collaborative Tools for Your Classroom That Are NOT Google

We LOVE GSuite for collaboration, but Kasey Bell explains 15 other collaborative tools you may want to see! Kasey provides videos to explain each of the 15 tools!

READ more!

From the DigCit Corner

K-12 Resources for Indiana's Dig Cit Week (Click Here)

From Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher!

Get Inspired Remember why your teaching is so important.

Transform Learning this School Year with Eric Sheninger
What 41 Years of Teaching Taught Me with Karen Van Duyn - this state teacher of the year finalist moved me to tears and reminded me why I do this. Love this story!
5 Ways to Transform your Classroom into a Voyage of Discovery with Sarah Reed
To Reach the Unreachable Star with Kim Clayton
How to think about Math. Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with Po-Shen Loh (US Math Olympiad Coach)
Let's make PD great. 5 Simple Ways to Improve Teacher Professional Development

School Improvement Ideas

5 Mistakes Teachers Make the First Week of School with Linda Kardamis
Move to flexible seating. Flexible Seating: Getting Rid of Cemetery Style Seating in the Classroom with Bill Selak
How to make sure every child has a connection with teachers.
Creating a Nurturing Environment for Kids with Nancy Blair - principals should listen to this show! Nancy's idea for helping make sure every child has a connection is solid gold. Share this with your principal.
How to get organized. 10 Ways to Tackle Back to School Like a Pro in a sponsored post I wrote for Staples about my favorite school supplies, organization techniques, and THE teacher planner book I love most!
Communicate with Parents. Why Bloomz is the Best Parent-Teacher Communication System for Me - the best software we've implemented at my school is Bloomz. They have a school-wide parent-teacher communication system called Bloomz. It is fantastic. In this sponsored post, I compare Bloomz to other systems out there.
Think about homework. 5 Ways to Hack Homework and Get Better Results with Connie Hamilton

EdTech Ideas

What Actually Works in Edtech? with Tom Murray
23 GSuite Ideas to Excite Your Students about Learning with Eric Curts
Amp up flipped learning and your class presentations. 3 Ways to Hack Classroom Presentationswith James Sturtevant - he uses Edpuzzle, Peardeck, and Presentation Zen.
Cool way to make student introductions. Flipgrid: 6 Fun Ideas to Engage Learners in Conversation with Teryl Magee
Classrooms are putting in Amazon Alexa. Here's why. Amazon Alexa in the Classroom with Bill Selak

Social Media and Literacies

Digital Leadership with Students and Social Media with Jennifer Casa-Todd
Fake News Lesson Plan Ideas with Jennifer Carey

Free Lesson Plans for Classic Literature Teachers

Free literature lesson plans. Owl Eyes (an amazing FREE web-app that lets kids and teachers collaborate inside classic books) in sponsoring next week's show. But until August 14, they are giving away 16 free lesson plans for literature teachers on Teacher's Pay Teachers. You should download them now. (MacBeth, The Canterbury Tales, The Cask of Amontillado, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Scarlet Letter, Hamlet, and more)

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You Asked For It! We Now Have TYPESY! (K-5)

Many of you have recognized the need for a keyboarding program in our elementary grades to improve speed and accuracy. With an improvement in speed and accuracy, ISTEP writing scores should also improve. Go here to read about this typing program and EDU Edition.

Elementary teachers and students will use their CLEVER login to enter the Typesy program.

Join us in the West Elementary WSI MakerLab for a Typesy Training Webinar on Aug. 30th!

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