The Corwin Connected Educators series is your key to unlocking the greatest resource available to all educators: other educators. Educators today must prepare students for a world that doesn't exist yet. Creating connections enables educators to adapt in order to stay relevant. This book is every educator's guide to becoming connected through social media, blogging, personal learning networks, and even new policy. Thought leaders in Connected Education help you use real-world tips and tools to: Master and adapt to 21st Century teaching methodologies Build ongoing technology literacy skills Begin your connected journey Being a Connected Educator is more than a set of actions: it's a belief in the potential of technology to fuel lifelong learning. To explore the other books in this series, visit the Corwin Connected Educators website at http://www.corwin.com/connectededucators/.
In this follow-up to her Common Core Companion, Grades 3-5, Leslie Blauman provides an ample supply of connected lessons you can use as booster shots when students need a good dose of integrated reading and writing instruction. The 50+ lessons are divided into five learning sequences that span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to a process that often overwhelms teachers and coaches alike.
This book shows how to use technology to address the needs of students with learning disabilities through differentiation and universal design for learning.
Today's educational landscape requires administrators to balance management and instructional leadership. While many understand management, creating a supportive environment that builds capacity and fosters positive communication isn't so intuitive. This guide provides leaders with realistic and simple-to-implement strategies that support new teachers.
An Implementation Template for Cultural Proficiency
See how one school district made Cultural Proficiency real-and how you can too! In spite of Brown vs. Board of Education, true integration and corresponding equality of educational opportunity is still far from reality in American schools. Opening Doors tells the story of Ventura Unified School District's successful implementation of cultural proficiency, which opened long-closed doors for marginalized students and returned gains on every key success metric. Most importantly, it will empower you to do the same for your school or district. Resources include: A method for evaluating the impact of educational decisions on students' access to learning A clear three-year implementation plan for making your school culturally proficient A content-rich companion website that includes templates and forms for implementing the book's suggestions It is long past time to make cultural proficiency real by ensuring universally equal access to educational resources for all students. This book removes the remaining barriers to the achievement of this ideal. "This powerfully insightful and thought provoking book, takes us on a journey to culturally proficient actions." -Rosemary Papa, Professor Northern Arizona University "The book is full of compassion, conviction and hope-pure heart, pure corazon-in the quest to tackle inequality and the opportunity gap head on." -Gilberto Q. Conchas, Professor of Educational Policy and Social Context University of California, Irvine
Help Students Show Learning Through Media Creation Education hinges on effective communication. This book demonstrates how media has become a core component of modern communication and highlights the need to incorporate student-centered media projects throughout the curriculum. Self-expression with media will enhance the learning process and allow students to creatively demonstrate their knowledge. The strategies and tactics these pages offer equip educators to make their students enthusiastic experts at producing dynamic media projects. Content includes: The how, why, and when of prompting students to create their own media across subjects and grade levels. Keys to mastery of media formats from simple photography to eBooks to complex animations. Detailed descriptions of student projects that utilize different media. The benefits of media sharing, and how to do it responsibly. The innovative use of Augmented Reality, so readers can activate a video on the book's printed pages with their mobile devices. Across all disciplines, mastery of media creation is central to the success of current and next generation students. Educators who implement this book's ideas will be amazed by the resultant increase in student engagement and depth of learning. "What a thoughtful collection of student-created products. This book highlights a variety of multimedia projects, offers a multitude of best practices and practical implementation tips, and is sure to empower teachers to help students find their voice." Lisa Johnson, Eanes ISD Ed Tech @TechChef4u
Technology has transformed our lives. Virtually every school and classroom is connected. Why then, has it not transformed education? Consider these five ways educators can begin to optimize classroom technology and rethink its use. See technology as a complement rather than a replacement Embrace its creation potential over consumption function Encourage design and personalized learning over standards and outcomes Celebrate the journey toward digital competence over curriculum improvement Focus on tech-pedagogy over product usage Learn how to let technology cultivate student autonomy, creativity, and responsibility while focusing on lessons that hone higher-order and critical thinking skills.
Backed by over 20 years of research, the Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) framework helps school-based teams improve the quality of instruction, assessment, and curriculum for higher and more equitable student learning. This work provides a powerful professional learning component and sample lessons plans, assessment tasks, and student work.
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards is a practical text aimed at demonstrating how teachers can integrate technology into their curriculum in order to meet the English Language Arts Standards and literacy standards for History and Science. Grounded in solid pedagogical theory, the book offers concrete strategies and lesson ideas. The ideas presented can be scaffolded to meet the needs of a wide range of student abilities in grades 6-12.
