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PowerSchool student information system with Microsoft Office 365 - 13 views

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Microsoft School Data Sync to synchronize roster data from the PowerSchool SIS into Office 365. 
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create class groups and add students to a OneNote Class Notebook
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online teacher-to-teacher collaboration and the synchronized creation and grading of assignments.
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applying email rules based on grade level, they prevent elementary school students from sending or receiving email but still provide them with the full capabilities of Office 365.
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Rob Ruddle on 07 Feb 17

...CCSD used Microsoft School Data Sync to integrate its PowerSchool student information system with Microsoft Office 365. And with the addition of Microsoft Classroom, CCSD teachers can automate more administrative tasks and focus their time on teaching.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">...CCSD used Microsoft School Data Sync to integrate its PowerSchool student information system with Microsoft Office 365. And with the addition of Microsoft Classroom, CCSD teachers can automate more administrative tasks and focus their time on teaching.</div>

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TeachTec's Tools for Schools - 18 views

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Gerald Carey on 08 Dec 11

Some very interesting Microsoft applications that might be suitable for schools. It includes Beginner Developer, Chemistry Add-in for Word, Education Labs for Maths test creation, Microsoft Robotics and others. Hat tip to Skipz

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Some very interesting Microsoft applications that might be suitable for schools. It includes Beginner Developer, Chemistry Add-in for Word, Education Labs for Maths test creation, Microsoft Robotics and others. Hat tip to Skipz</div>

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Michele Brown on 23 May 12

A great place to find tech tools to use with MS Office programs. Find and download alll of Microsoft's free tools for teachers and students. Updated 3.18.2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning helps educators connect, collaborate, create and share. TeachTec is a Microsoft Partners in Learning resource that helps educators find relevant and effective ways to use technology to inspire teaching and engage students. Together we have consolidated the latest and most popular teacher and student resources that Microsoft provides to all schools, districts and education organizations around the world.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A great place to find tech tools to use with MS Office programs. Find and download alll of Microsoft's free tools for teachers and students. Updated 3.18.2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning helps educators connect, collaborate, create and share. TeachTec is a Microsoft Partners in Learning resource that helps educators find relevant and effective ways to use technology to inspire teaching and engage students. Together we have consolidated the latest and most popular teacher and student resources that Microsoft provides to all schools, districts and education organizations around the world.</div>

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Microsoft in Education Teacher guides - 139 views

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UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers - Version 2.0 - 59 views

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eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors - 2 views

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How-to articles from Microsoft - 91 views

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10 Microsoft Word Tricks Every Teacher Should Know | Making Teachers Nerdy - 1 views

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Free products and services for teachers - 90 views

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Teacher resources, classroom lesson plans, and free tools: Microsoft Education - 106 views

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Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 teacher guide - 56 views

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Free tools for teachers - Partners in Learning Network - 16 views

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Teacher guides: Microsoft Education - 67 views

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Microsoft Office in the classroom - 131 views

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Always Write: Cobett's "7 Elements of a Differentiated Writing Lesson" Resources - 10 views

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  This is a neat way to start a writing class with the creating plot ideas....
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a neat way to start a writing class with the creating plot ideas....</div>
  
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One of the goals I ask teachers to set after my training is to find new ways to push students to analyze and evaluate as they learn to write.
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As part of my teacher workshop on the writing process, we investigate multiple uses of student samples. One of my favorite techniques involves having student compare and contrast finished pieces of writing. During both pre-writing and and revision, this push for deeper student thinking both educates and inspires your students.
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The handout has student writers analyze two fifth graders' published writing with a compare and contrast Venn diagram.
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Revision is hard, and most teachers recognize it as an area of deficiency; the truth is, a lot of really great writing teachers I know still freely admit that revision is where they struggle the most.
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revision shouldn't be the first of the seven elements to work on
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When students like what they've written in rough draft form, they're ready to move to revision. My other six elements aim at helping students increase their pre-writing time so they both like and see more potential in their rough drafts
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I believe in the power of collaboration and study teams,
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Professional development research clearly cites the study team model as the most effective way to have learners not only understand new ideas but also implement them enough times so they become regular tools in a teacher's classroom.
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Below, find three examples created by study teams during past workshops. I use them as models/exemplars when I set the study teams off to work.
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My students learn to appreciate the act of writing, and they see it as a valuable life-skill.
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In a perfect world, following my workshop,
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follow-up tools.
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I also use variations of these Post-its during my Critical Thinking Using the Writing Traits Workshop.
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By far, the best success I've ever had while teaching revision was the one I experienced with the revision Post-its I created for my students
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During my teacher workshop on the writing process, we practice with tools like the Revision Sprint (at right), which I designed to push students to use analysis and evaluation skills as they looked at their own drafts
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I used to throw my kids into writing response groups way too fast. They weren't ready to provide critical thought for one another
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The most important trick learned was this: be a writer too. During my first five years of teaching, I had assigned a lot of writing but never once had I written something I intended to show my students.
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I have the following interactive plot element generator (which can be replicated with three coffee cans and index cards) to help my students feel in control of their options:
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If you want to hear my take on graphic organizers in detail, you're going to have to hire me to come to present to you. If you can't do that, then I'll throw you a challenge that was thrown once at me, and completing the challenge helped me become a smarter designer of graphic organizers. The challenge came in two parts: 1) learn how to use tables and text boxes in Microsoft Word; 2) for practice, design a graphic organizer that would help students be successfully with the following trait-based skills:
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, etc," which is an interesting structure that students can borrow from to write about other topics, be they fiction or non-fiction.
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Asking students to create daily journals from the perspective of other animals or even inanimate objects is a great way to borrow this book's idea.
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it challenges students to analyze the author's word choice & voice skills: specifically his use of verbs, subtle alliteration, and dialogue.
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Mentor Text Resource Page here at my website, because this topic has become such a big piece of learning to me. It deserved its own webpage.
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Here are seven skills I can easily list for the organization trait. Organization is: 1) using a strong lead or hook, 2) using a variety of transition words correctly, 3) paragraphing correctly, 4) pacing the writing, 5) sequencing events/ideas logically, 6) concluding the writing in a satisfying way, 7) titling the writing interestingly and so that the title stands for the whole idea. Over the years, I have developed or found and adapted mini-lessons that have students practice these skills during my "Organization Month."
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Now, let's talk differentiation:
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The problem with focusing students on a product--instead of the writing process--is that the majority of the instructional time is spent teaching students to adhere to a formula.
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the goal of writing instruction absolutely should be the helping students practice the three Bloom's levels above apply: analyze, evaluate, and create.
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Click here to access the PowerPoint I use during the goal-setting portion of my workshop.
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Improving one's ability to teach writing to all students is a long-term professional development goal; sticking with it requires diligence, and it requires having a more specific goal than "I want to improve writing
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"Trying to get better at all seven elements at once doesn't work;
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strive to make my workshops more about "make and take,
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Robert Marzano's research convinced me years ago of the importance of having learners set personal goals as they learn to take responsibility for their own learning.
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Microsoft Word - BlockingSchedules.rtf - CAREI BlockingSchedules.pdf - 25 views

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  " Early advocates of bloc scheduling identified the block schedule as the ca talyst, or vehicle, for bringing about desired changes in secondary education (Carroll, 1990; Canady and Rett ig, 1995)"
  
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Research examining student achievement in block-scheduled schools compared to traditional schools showed mixed and inconclusive results
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Most research about block scheduling and classroom instruction, as with research on school climate, used student, teacher, and parent questionnaires and surveys.
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The levels of engagement were much better in the first year under the block schedule, while in the second year the ratings were the same as under the traditional schedule.
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Students reported “thinking hard about ideas” and “having indepth discussion” significantly more often under block schedules.
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his may also be supported by Bexell (1998) who found teachers on block schedules using teaching strategies requiring more interaction than teachers on a traditional schedule
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It would seem that the small amount of change in the way teachers teach after switching to a block schedule would be disappointing to block scheduling advocates
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Important questions hover over these findings. What is an effective amount of teacher lecture? Or group work? Or individual work?
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One thing that is missing from the observation instrument used in this study is any judgment about the quality of a lecture, quality and depth of a discussion, or the complexity of group or individual work
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