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Holler for High-Quality NGSS Instructional Materials!
Hey Folks!
I hope the summer is treating you all well. We’re currently engaging with teachers in a pilot course, pairing videos of teacher practice with high-quality instructional materials. While our course is now full, we want to make these resources available to all of our Tchers.
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Tch Talks 28: Playful Assessment
How might student learning improve if assessments were innovative, authentic, and playful?
Learning can — and should — be fun, but when it comes to assessment, teachers can be very serious. However, there’s no need for the fun to stop when the assessments come out.
On this episode of Tch Talks, Dr.
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Disconnected: How Cutting My Home Internet Access Saved My Teaching Career
Learn how disconnecting from an overload of work can help you teach students to become more autonomous, self-directed learners.
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What to Watch: Get Lit with Digital Literacy
Learn how to help your students level up with digital literacy. A collection of videos to help educators teach digital literacy to students.
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Becoming a Connected Educator with Twitter
Social media is more than posting pictures of your dog or finding new recipes. It's one of the most powerful ways to refine your craft as an educator. For teachers, social media is a valuable resource for collecting new ideas, activities, and methods to bring into their classrooms.
In this video, Tch
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Tch Tips: 5 Easy Ways to Stay Connected Over the Summer
If you’re missing the connection that teaching brings, here are a few ways you can stay in touch with colleagues over the summer months.
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What to Watch: Ready, Set, Get Organized!
Whether your teacher life is Instagram ready... or you've been searching for the secret to classroom zen since day one, these videos will help you create a more organized, peaceful, and supportive learning environment for the upcoming school year.
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Surviving the Search: Strategies for Success in the Job Hunt
Practical advice that just might help you land the perfect teaching job.
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Real Ways School Leaders Can Build Morale and Reduce Stress in Schools
Sponsored content provided by Concordia University-Portland.
Face it -- schools can be stressful places to work, and that perpetual stress can take a serious toll on the faculty and staff. It’s normal to see slumps in staff morale and spikes in teacher stress throughout the year. During busy times, between vacations,
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Tch June 2018 Rewind
In case you missed any of the great ideas we explored this month on Tchers’ Voice, let’s recap our jazzy June lineup, filled with great ideas from passionate educators just like you!
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Ten Steps to Starting a Community Book Club
What does it take to start a book club? Tch Laureate Geneviève DeBose Akinnagbe shares ten easy steps and a few resources to help you make it happen.
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I Want to Get Better at... Teaching ELLs
Teaching ELLs may feel challenging. Here are a few strategies to help improve your practice this summer.
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Tch Talks 27: Five Things You Can Do to Reach & Teach English Learners
In this episode of Tch Talks, educators Sarah Ottow and Nicole Shimizu share their list of five things you can do to reach and teach your ELLs during the next school year.
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5 Things English Learners Need From Classroom Teachers
All educators can be outstanding teachers of ELLs with some reassurance and a few great strategies.
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Shifting the Culture of Reading in a School: Project LIT Bronx
Learn how you can help shift the culture of reading in your school to one where there is a genuine excitement and buzz about books.
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I Want to Get Better at… Collaboration
Whether you have a strong collaborative culture at your school or not, you can take steps to get better at collaboration this summer. Use these ideas to get started!
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Relax, Recharge, Rejuvenate: Stepping Up The Summer
Summer is a chance for teachers to be intentional about finding time to relax, while also improving our craft in ways no “PD session” ever could.
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Engineering the End of the School Year
Engineering Design Challenges are a great way to keep students engaged and learning all year long -- especially at the end of the year.
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The Civics Skills We Need: Summer Reading and Reflection for #DemocraticClassrooms
A recent study involving rural farmers and urban activists in North Dakota asked each group to “select three terms that describe what ‘social justice’ means to you,” and then “select three terms describing what ‘autonomy’ means to you.” The results, represented in word clouds, point to our own political divide
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Ecosystems: An NGSS-Designed Unit
6 new videos that provide a window into an NGSS-aligned classroom.
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I Want to Get Better at... Assessment
Build your assessment toolbox so you can refine your practice and improve student learning.
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Tch Tips: Five Ways to Recharge with Summer Learning
You probably won’t conquer everything on your list. But if you choose just a few things to work on this summer, you’ll return to your classroom refreshed, recharged, and ready to take on the new school year.
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What to Watch 2018: Sarah's Sizzlin' Strategies
The temperature is on the rise, but nothing’s quite as hot as Tch Laureate Sarah Brown Wessling’s strategies for student success. Whether you’re inside and staying cool, or just chillin’ by the pool, watch these Tch videos to build your strategy toolbox this summer.
Strategies for Analysis
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Family Fun with the Fathers of Science
My father is my hero, my inspiration, and one of several people I credit for my journey to becoming a science teacher. Whether it was dissecting cow hearts or cleaning a creek, he always taught me to embrace a sense of wonder and to question the natural world.
In this summer
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LGBTQ Teachers: Opening "The Closet" Door May Close The Door On Your Career
What advice does Oregon TOY Brett Bigham give to teachers struggling with the decision to come out as LGBTQ? Find out a little more about Brett, why he hates this question, and what wisdom he has to share.