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Lois Whipple

Strategies for Community Engagement in School Turnaround | U.S. Department of Education - 0 views

  • Turnaround Case Studies by ERS Strategies: Denver Case Study Education Resource Strategies analyzed strategies to turn around low-performance schools undertaken by six large urban districts and four education management organizations and then developed 10 case studies. The attached case study is about school turnaround in Denver Public Schools.
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    This paper examines one essential tactic for making school turnaround more effective: community engagement. To explore community engagement in action, the Reform Support Network (RSN) conducted reviews between April and August of 2013 of 11 States and districts, urban and rural, engaged in the communities surrounding low-performing schools. The enquiry yielded five primary lessons or takeaways about successful community engagement: make engagement a priority and establish an infrastructure, communicate proactively in the community, listen to the community and respond to its feedback, offer meaningful opportunities to participate, and turn community supporters into leaders and advocates.
Daniel Breiman

What factors help drive student engagement? | SmartBrief - 1 views

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    What factors help drive student engagement?
John Chandler

More Than Half of Students 'Engaged' in School, Says Poll - Education Week - 0 views

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    Students who have teachers who make them "feel excited about the future" and who attend schools that they see as committed to building their individual strengths are 30 times more likely than other students to show other signs of engagement in the classroom-a key predictor of academic success, according to a report released Wednesday by
meredith fox

LMS Solutions to Empower Teachers | Schoology - 0 views

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    to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale.
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    Teaching isn't easy. All too often educators are asked to achieve high goals with meager resources and distracted students. No technology alone can improve learning, but an intimate partnership between educational institutions and technology developers can. Our mission is to empower you-to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale. Schoology isn't just an LMS. It's a living, breathing educational community that can adjust to changing student needs, learn from collective experiences, and continually improve as education and technology advance. We strive to provide an unparalleled educational experience that improves student outcomes by providing educators information and insights that were never before possible. Schoology hopes not only to illuminate why particular students learn the way they do, but also to provide support and personalized content that is tailored to them. Schoology is transforming learning through the collaboration of passionate individuals. We're on a unique journey, and this is just the beginning.
Barbara Powers

Free Tools for Teachers: Helping You Engage Students - YouTube - 0 views

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    Free Tools for Teachers: Helping You Engage Students
Adriana Coppola

Blogs on Student Engagement | Edutopia - 0 views

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    + A Teaching Moment: Harriet Tubman
Kelly OLeary

Using Humor in the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Student Engagement
Julia Leong

TAGSExplorer: Interactive archive of twitter conversations from a Google Spreadsheet fo... - 9 views

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    Interactive archive of twitter conversations from a Google Spreadsheet
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    Twitter archive to show how your tweets are engaging with the group
Barbara Powers

PowToon for education online animated presentation software - 0 views

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    Create animated videos and presentations -as easy as Powerpoint!  Flip your classroom, inspire, engage and delight your students.
Alicia Koster

Barbaric Yawp in the 21st Century: Using Tech to Engage Budding Poets | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Would the students have created a Facebook group rather than sneak off to a cave? Or would Mr. Keating have told the students to turn off all devices and leave them in their bags, maintaining the traditional classroom setting? I think it would be more of the former.
  • In the movie, students shouted quotes to music blasted from a record player while on the soccer field. They explored alternative learning spaces by walking the halls of the school. The students from Mr. Keating's class found relevance in their study of poetry because he taught them (3):
John Chandler

The Antidepressant Generation - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    College deans have written about incoming freshman being "crispies" or "teacups": the crispies so burned out by the pressures of high school that they get to college unable to engage in the work, and the teacups so fragile or overprotected in their formative years that they fall apart at the first stress they encounter.  What can/should k-12 leaders do?
Gina Cinotti

Am I an Educational Leader? - 0 views

  • An educational leader today is one who, regardless of title, exhibits the following ten traits: -          Willingness to learn new things -          Committed to providing an excellent learning environment for those you are responsible for in your classroom, school or district -          Looks to motivate those you have immediate contact with and those outside your traditional circle of influence -          Continually self-evaluates your own place in the educational structure and adapts for the betterment of education -          Keeps a focus on what’s most important; students and their learning
  • Continually engages in professional development to improve your own knowledge and skills -          Develops and expands a professional learning network through connections and collaboration in social media -          Works to develop other educational leaders in the classroom, school office and central office -          Helps developing and new educators find their way so that they too can one day lead -          Gives back to the profession
Gina Cinotti

Text message (SMS) polls and voting, - 0 views

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    Poll Everywhere lets you engage your audience or class anywhere in real time
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    audience response system
ShaeBrie Dow

Talking with Students through Screencasting: Experimentations with Video Feedback to Im... - 0 views

  • The National Council of English Teachers (NCTE) position statement on teaching composition argues that students “need guidance and support throughout the writing process, not merely comments on the written product,” and that “effective comments do not focus on pointing out errors, but go on to the more productive task of encouraging revision” (CCCC 2004).
  • feedback serves as a pedagogical tool to improve learning by motivating students to rethink and rework their ideas rather than simply proofread and edit for errors.
  • “feedback should focus on improving the skills needed for the construction of end products more than on the end products themselves”
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  • By talking to students and reading their work aloud, instructors can engage students on an interpersonal level that is absent in written comments.
  • comparison between feedback forms within one class is to use both forms to respond to the same type of assignment
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    "Talking with Students through Screencasting:"
Alicia Koster

An Edcamp at the U.S. Department of Education? - Finding Common Ground - Education Week - 0 views

  • You may be skeptical of edcamps, but you shouldn't be. They are much more engaging, and widely held than you may think. According to Kristen Swanson, Senior Educational Research Leader at BrightBytes, and co-founder of the Edcamp Movement, "Edcamps are more than just an idea or theory; they're an international movement. The model has been replicated in 41 states and dozens of countries worldwide. Over 25,000 educators have participated in a regional Edcamp event, and many more have participated in an Edcamp-style event at their school."   Considering how grassroots edcamps are, it's going to be interesting to what happens, when the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) holds their edcamp in June.
mccahillk

Educational Leadership:Strengthening Student Engagement:Engaging Students: What I Learn... - 0 views

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    Low grades on tests do not necessarily mean that students haven't studied. Some students may have been confused when the material was covered in class. Incomplete homework isn't always a sign that students don't care.
debra joseph-charles

Educreations - All about apps in YOUR classroom! - 1 views

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    Using Educreations at Every Level of Bloom's
Lois Whipple

ASCD and CDC Announce Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model - 2 views

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      Will a big picture model require BIG funding?
  • The school in blue and green, surrounding the child, acting as the hub that provides the full range of learning and health support systems to each child, in each school, in each community The community, represented in orange, demonstrating that while the school may be a hub, it remains a focal reflection of its community and requires community input, resources, and collaboration in order to support its students The child in the center, at the focal point and surrounded by the whole child tenets: healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged
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      Visuals speak a thousand words.
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    ASCD and CDC Announce Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model
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