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Runaway Youth: How Teachers Can Help
Listen to my interview with Maureen Blaha, Executive Director of the National Runaway Safeline (transcript): Because our mission is to serve and teach kids, any issue that impacts them has the...
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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017
Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Kiddom): It’s that time again!! To celebrate the launch of my brand-new, fully redesigned Teacher’s Guide to Tech, I’m hand-picking six ed tech tools...
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7 Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners
Listen to my interview with Seth Perler, executive function coach (transcript): It seems every teacher in every school struggles with what they might call unmotivated, lazy, or disorganized...
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The Apollo School: What 21st Century Learning Looks Like
Listen to my interview with the Apollo School founders (transcript): We’ve reached a point where most teachers embrace the idea of student-directed learning, the philosophy of being the guide on the...
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Teaching Students to Avoid Plagiarism
Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Listenwise): Plagiarism can be a real pain. Most teachers have had to deal with it in some form or another, and a whole lot of you still haven’t quite...
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Four Ways Teachers Can Support Students of Color
“IMG_0570-2” by Håkon Thingstad is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Listen to my interview with Dena Simmons (or read the transcript): The difference between teachers and their students has never been...
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5 Ways College Teachers Can Improve Their Instruction
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Classroom Eye Candy 3: The Funky Science Lab
It’s back!! After many, many months, I am ready to show you the third classroom in our Classroom Eye Candy series. All images will open up nice and big in a new window if you click on them. Ready?...
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To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation
Listen to this post as a podcast: If no one has ever encouraged, pushed, or insisted that you build more higher-order thinking into your students’ learning, it’s possible you’ve been teaching in a...
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What to Do on Lame Duck School Days
Listen to the Podcast: The term “lame duck” is most often used to describe a president who is still sitting in office after his or her successor has been elected. Technically this person is still...
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Sown to Grow: Tap into the Power of Goal-Setting and Reflection
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. By now, most teachers know that one of the best things we can do for our students is to help them develop a growth mindset, the belief that they...
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3 Surprising Reasons Students Don’t Get into Top Colleges
Listen to my interview with Shirag Shemmassian (transcript): For many of our students, getting into a good college is a top priority. They work like crazy to get perfect grades, spend years...
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Join Our Summer 2017 YA Book Club
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links; if you purchase from Amazon after going through these links, Cult of Pedagogy receives a small commission at no extra cost to you. For this year’s Summer...
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How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching
Listen to my interview with Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis, authors of The HyperDoc Handbook (transcript): In many classrooms, a learning cycle looks something like this: First, we...
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Why It’s So Hard for Teachers to Take Care of Themselves (and 4 Ways to Start)
Listen to my interview with Angela Watson (transcript): As a whole, teachers aren’t great about taking care of themselves. You work too many hours, don’t get enough sleep or exercise, eat too many...
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Classroom Eye Candy 4: The Simplified Retreat
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What is an Educator Mastermind, and Why Should You Join One?
Listen to my interview with Daniel Bauer (transcript): One of the crazy ironies of working in education is that we spend so much time surrounded by other human beings, but still work in isolation....
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How One Teacher Started an Urban Gardening Revolution
Listen to my interview with Stephen Ritz (transcript): It’s such a simple word: garden. Gardens are nice. Maybe your mom has one. Maybe you have one. Perhaps you or someone you know is currently...
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How to Deal with Student Grammar Errors
Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Write About): It happens at the start of every school year: Teachers decide that once and for all, they are going to fix the problem of student grammar...
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Making the Most of a 90-Minute Block
Listen to this Post as a Podcast (sponsored by Raymond Geddes and Kids Discover Online) This is an excerpt from a letter written to a Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper in 2002 by a first-year math...
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