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How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done - 5 Expert Tips - 0 views

  • To-Do Lists Are Evil. Schedule Everything. Assume You’re Going Home at 5:30, Then Plan Your Day Backwards Make A Plan For The Entire Week Do Very Few Things, But Be Awesome At Them Less Shallow Work, Focus On The Deep Stuff
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6 Subtle Things Highly Productive People Do Every Day - Business Insider - 0 views

  • Studies demonstrate happiness increases productivity and makes you more successful.
  • Don’t Check Email In The Morning
  • Focus Is Nothing More Than Eliminating Distractions
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  • Define Your Goals The Night Before
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4 Things Transformational Teachers Do | Edutopia - 0 views

  • 1. Transformational Teachers Create Constructivist Experiences
  • Transmission
  • Transformational
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  • What Does Transformational Teaching Look Like?
  • Have students ask questions and solve real-world problems. Questions should require students to: Analyze Synthesize Create Empathize Interpret Reference background knowledge Defend alternative perspectives Determine what they know and don't know. Organize students into learning groups. Make learning segments manageable through modeling and mastery. Guide, facilitate, challenge, and support.
  • 2. Transformational Instructors Teach Like Scientists, Artists, and Essayists
  • 3. Transformational Teachers Model Symphonic Thinking
  • 4. Transformational Teachers Facilitate Productive Struggle
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What Amazing Leaders Do Differently | Shane Snow | LinkedIn - 0 views

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35 Daily Habits You Should Really Steal From Successful People - 0 views

  • 1. Hold Back-to-Back Meetings in One Location
  • 2. Read Voraciously
  • 3. Constantly Triage Your To-Do List
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  • 4. Unsubscribe Mercilessly
  • 5. Block Time on Your Calendar According to Tasks
  • 6. Connect With Your Passion
  • 7. Limit the Time Spent on Email Every Day
  • 8. Spend One Hour Outside Every Day
  • 9. Use Technology for Personal Relationship Management (PRM)
  • 10. Prioritize Key Employee Objectives
  • 11. Focus on Two to Three Things a Day
  • 12. Have a Family Dinner
  • 13. Get Home on Time
  • 14. Exercise Every Day
  • 19. Allow Enough Unscheduled Time During the Day to Think, React, or Write
  • 21. Prioritize a Daily To-Do List
  • 29. Get to Inbox Zero
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    Many of these are repetitious but all are great suggestions
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3 Reasons Why Your Twitter Ego Could Destroy Your Message - Finding Common Ground - Edu... - 0 views

  • 3. You ask what people can do for you before you decide what you can do for them
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      Shouldn't this be the first consideration?
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What the Internet is Doing to Young Minds - PsyBlog - 0 views

  • 87% of US teachers think the internet is creating a distracted generation. Is it really true?
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      Or is the teachers' instruction just to outmoded?
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How Do We Learn? How Should We Learn? | User Generated Education - 0 views

  • spreading out learning, also known as distributed practice, is thought to be a better way to learn.
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Transforming higher education's creative capacity - University World News - 0 views

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    "Creative learning is important because jobs that do not require some form of creativity are more likely to be outsourced or automated. "
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Recognizing Human Trafficking - 0 views

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    and What To Do About It in Schools @coolcatteacher with Ashley Burkett
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Teach Kindness | Practical Theory - 0 views

  • Create spaces for students and teachers to know each other over time.
  • Create more opportunities for students to feel part of a community in their classes.
  • implify the grading systems and do away with individualized class rank.
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  • Have students identify and solve real problems.
  • Create channels for positive interactions between home and school.
  • Have shared spaces
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Joan Ganz Cooney Center - iPads - A Tool, Not Alchemy, for Education - 0 views

  • it is a merely a tool with which you can do great things.
  • isn’t alchemy for education
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Deeper Learning Demands Deeper Leading-and Technology Can Help | EdSurge News - 0 views

  • deeper learning can only achieve its aims—and do so for all students—when grounded in relationships.
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Donald Trump plans to immediately deport 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants - The W... - 0 views

  • "After the border is secure
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      And HOW does he propose to do this and WHAT is his definition of "secure"?
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As Trump Restricts Visitors From Some Majority-Muslim Countries, His Family Does Busine... - 0 views

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    "Even as President Trump takes steps to restrict visitors from some majority-Muslim countries, he and his family continue to do business in some of the others."
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