Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

My children love “would you rather” questions. Would you rather go to the beach or the snow? Would you rather eat a cookie or a brownie? Would you rather watch a movie or read a book? They enjoy being presented with two options and getting to choose one. Would You Rather?

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI? Bias and fairness: Bias in AI systems and troubles ensuring fair treatment 3. Educators should ensure their skillset includes using and teaching with AI, but should strive to enhance the human aspect of teaching.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2014

My school was closed because of weather for the first time in my teaching career. This is an ideal space to post announcements, allow students to ask questions, and encourage students to have discussions about assignments. Yesterday Northern California was hit by massive storm. Use a Google Community to Connect Students.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

.” The company’s people-first approach includes focusing on: Relationships and diversity Fairness and respect Being purpose-driven Equal treatment Safe spaces Being child-centric Global collaboration There is also a busy-ness that is becoming more prevalent in both education and business.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

By examining his success, we can learn some important lessons about effective teaching. Here are three keys to Malan’s effective teaching that I think all schools everywhere should apply, from K-12 schools to colleges and universities. Teach students to self-assess. Strengthen the social side of learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is a question every educator has faced before. To be fair, its a valid question. In my experience, teachers have two standard replies to this question: Theyll try to explain the subject in detail, which results in a long-winded answer that confuses their students and doesnt satisfy them.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

” It’s a fair question. This process is easier to do because I teach on a block schedule and work with a co-teacher. However, I may not always have time to return to a previous piece and reassess it prior to this conversation, so this gives us time to chat about their hard work. These conversations are invaluable.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2019

Of course, many popular movies deal with social and emotional issues, and these can be great for teaching SEL in our classrooms. As students watch, help them interpret the films you show, and give them direct invitations to ask questions and think critically about what they’re seeing on the screen. Science Fair.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. What Is Fair Use? The short answer is, well, yes. In the U.S.,

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Reading Fairness Teachers Disabilities 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. Everything is online. cyberbullying.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

Our coaches encourage our teachers to reflect by asking them questions to encourage it and by helping them learn to ask reflective questions of themselves. We also have teachers watch their peers teach and watch videos of their own teaching so they become more mindful of their own practices. 1) Focus your PLC meetings.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2017

As Dan Rothstein, executive director of the Right Question Institute, tells the story: “The teacher presented the following equation: 24 = (smiley face) + (smiley face) + (smiley face).” Then, she asked her students to think of as many questions as they could about the equation. 3) Write down every question exactly as stated. (4)

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Internet Fairness Students Questions 271

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system. Defining AI in each of these spaces has resulted in the emergence of specific questions that guide AI usage and encourage innovation with AI.

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Ethics Education Intelligence Culture 327

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The result is a learning experience that is more attuned to individual needs and differences, ensuring each student has a fair chance at success. Taking Stock of Current Teaching Practices I encourage educators to question the prevailing reliance on whole-group, teacher-led instructional design. The post Time Efficiency vs.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the Baldwin Union Free School District , educators and leaders are working diligently to avoid brain rot as they strive to teach students how to ask questions, evaluate information sources, and become actively involved in their communities. One of the questions we ask is, Should you share this? Everyone should be doing this.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2023

Add to this the fact that districts often emphasize and require science teachers to host and participate in school and district Science Fairs, and it is no wonder that good science teachers are hard to come by. Here are my 3 favorite digital resources that can help support ALL science teachers teaching science lab skills: 1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

In my classes, students must qualify to use Minecraft by answering a series of questions I pose. How students answer this question is always interesting. The surprising part is no one minds these questions. I’ve found throughout my teaching career that the most effective lessons are those with real-world applications.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system. Defining AI in each of these spaces has resulted in the emergence of specific questions that guide AI usage and encourage innovation with AI.

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Whether youre teaching elementary students or high schoolers, this strategy works for everyone. Heres the breakdown: Think Students take a moment to reflect on a question or prompt independently. It Builds Confidence and Gets Students Thinking More Deeply When you ask a question, like Why do you think the character did that?

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Fairness Social Studies Questions Science 77

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A few years ago, my husband left a career in finance and went back to school to obtain his teaching credential. He landed a job teaching eighth-grade U.S. They raised their hands and shouted out answers and sought me out to ask more questions. Today they asked questions. I was about to learn firsthand. Today they cared.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The answer to the first question is easy. The 2016 Report is made possible by Share Fair Nation at go.nmc.org/2016-k12 ). The answer to the second question of what trends are most important in your school/school district requires some work on your part. Scaling Teaching Innovations. Rethinking the Roles of Teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

You can certainly teach more than one standard a day, but that doesn’t give you time to explore them, unpack them, and revisit them, which is where learning and mastery actually happen. Related : 8 questions for educators as they use assessments to support student learning Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Like many other urban school systems, Syracuse City School District (SCSD) , where I serve as chief academic officer, has faced a number of challenges: Retaining teachers past their third year of teaching, too many competing initiatives that were unaligned to larger goals, and—most pressing—low academic performance among disadvantaged students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I was in my fifth year of teaching at Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash., This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders. Anonymous student.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The commission will review research and industry data and hear from education experts as it develops recommendations for southern states around using AI in teaching and learning, developing AI-related policies, and preparing students for careers in AI. The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to drive deeper student thinking and learning, consider these 8 questions from Section A of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Let me know what questions you have.

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Questions Fairness Coaching Critical Thinking 105

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Academic Integrity Statements allow educators to put ethics first and teach essential tenets to students up front. This may beg the question of the need for school board policies around Generative AI. Academic Integrity Statements are a good place to start with districts setting expectations for students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

They started by asking a series of questions that were on their minds. The Questions are in bold and my answers in italics : I allow my kids to have “Friends” in Roblox or Instagram and only chat with friends. Let’s start this question with a poll. Wow, that’s a lot of hands.

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Questions Internet Ethics Fairness 103

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 3, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to move toward more authentic, real world work, consider these 8 questions from Section B of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Let me know what questions you have.

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Questions Authentic Assessment Fairness Coaching 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

I’ve been teaching technology for over fifteen years. While student familiarity with this tool has improved, one thing that never varies is the myths surrounding teaching with it. You don’t have to teach keyboarding. Teach the digital tool and then use it. ” But that’s not true. Of course you do.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Having been in education for more than thirty years, I can’t tell you how many times I have been asked the question, “How can I help my children retain what they learned? In 1886 John Milton Gregory wrote a book called The Seven Laws of Teaching. He would spend his life, teaching teachers how to become the best they could be.

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Learning Fairness Knowledge Testing 237

eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

The limits of manual IEP interpretation When you think about the steps involved in creating and implementing an IEP, the process requires a fair amount of human intervention and interpretation. Educators set goals with students and families annually and then collect information supporting those goals in different ways throughout the year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I’ve been teaching for more than 30 years, and this is the most excited I’ve ever seen students. When we have our STEM Fair each year, parents are amazed by what they see and hear from the students. Take a question and turn it into an investigation and project. This is my world every day. What’s changed?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There were a number of questions she wanted to answer back then, questions she’s still asking now: “How do you change a high school curriculum, and why is it so hard to change?” “How But because those standardized tests today are considered synonymous with student achievement, many teachers feel obligated to “teach to the test.”

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Testing Teaching Exams Evaluation 157

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Exhibit leadership in teaching and living as a digital citizen. Teach Writing with Tech. Everything is online. cyberbullying.

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Blended Learning Teaching Learning Internet 158