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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

Back-to-School Night is the one evening each year when I have the opportunity to connect face-to-face with my students’ parents. Unfortunately, not all parents can attend Back-to-School Night. So, three years ago I began flipping my Back-to-School Night presentation in the hopes of reaching more of my parents.

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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

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The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. It is also frustrating when pre-packaged PD sessions are disconnected from your specific school context and student population. In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students.

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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

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My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. the Extra-Terrestrial, or a school-wide showing of a “ Stranger Danger ” PSA? As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T.

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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During my 20 years as a music teacher and band director at Far Hills Country Day School, a Pre-K through 8 independent school in Far Hills, New Jersey, I have had wonderful success integrating music across multiple curriculums, including history, math, science, writing, PE, art and world languages.

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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

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During the conversation with EdSurge, Kendi shared his perspective about inequitable education outcomes and how antiracist policy changes could benefit the students who grow up with the least access to resources in their homes and schools. “I Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy?

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Helping Educators Reimagine AI’s Role in Transformational Learning

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GenerationAI Coalition Partners: Center for Black Educator Development Computer Science Teachers Association Indigitize Latinos for Education National Education Association Playlab A focus on equity and fairness must thoughtfully address the circumstances and backgrounds of all the students in our schools.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They want to read and write and think. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate.

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