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"Remind 101 has released a free iPhone app. Remind 101 is a service for sending text messages to groups of students and their parents. The service is an opt-in service which means that students and parents have to enter a confirmation code to state that they do want to be contacted by you through the service. Remind 101 keeps phone numbers hidden so that the parties cannot see each other's numbers."

micromanagers classroom management

"10 tips for workshop presenters any teachers…"

1. Assign worksheet for homework. 2. The next day, collect worksheets & redistribute randomly to other classmates. 3. Give students 5 minutes to silently study the student's paper they were given. 4. Each student will be given 60-90 seconds to stand up and introduce the person they were randomly assigned. They are to tell everything they can about that person based on their paper. Challenge the students to practice higher level thinking + observations/inferences. For example, if the paper a student received is very neat & organized, they can infer that the student took his/her time and has good work ethic. If the paper is sloppy & only half complete, the student can infer that he/she rushed through the work or didn't try very hard.

poverty, education, common core

Don't use dry erase boards. Write directly on desks.

google sites

search google with voice or handwrite

"Eight brief points about "merit pay" for teachers"

"end of the year gifts for class: make word clouds with positive traits for each of my students. use a "Describe Me" sheet, have students write positive character traits of each of their classmates."

"74 Interesting Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom"

Five minutes. That's all it takes to improve your relationship with your students. And why is that important? Because having rapport with students translates to powerful and behavior-influencing leverage-the kind of leverage that compels them to want to behave, to want to do well, and to want to please you. And those few minutes before the morning bell are perfect for improving relationships, perfect for building a natural, trusting bond between you. But you have to get up from your desk to do it.