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Keepin’ It Real with RealtimeBoard: Online Collaborative Boards

One such tool I learned of recently is RealtimeBoard.com. After an initial inspection and test run, I have decided to add it to my burgeoning Symbaloo list of worthy websites and apps. Here is a quick overview of an online collaborative board created within this user friendly website.

7 hours ago by John Hardison

Leadership

Q&A With Broad Superintendents Academy On Learning & Leadership

Broad Superintendents Academy Managing Director Christina Heitz conducted a video interview with Tom prior to his visit and the following is a summary interview.

7 hours ago by Tom Vander Ark

Learning

Why I Haven’t Flipped…Yet: Reviewing Essential Questions

Though I needed a year of immersion in a new school and a new program to think things through before I flipped my classroom, I didn’t hold back from turning my students on to the idea of flipping for learning’s sake.

8 hours ago by Susan Lucille Davis

Learning

K-12 Assessments and Teacher Evaluation: Using Data to Help Teachers Strengthen Their Practice

In the second addition to this three part guest series, Dr. Anne Udall of NWEA argues that there is real opportunity for schools and district leaders to use assessment data, particularly from interim assessments, to help educators grow their expertise.

yesterday by Guest Author

Leadership

Giving Students a Voice

Zak Malamed is convinced that the “idea of student voice, as individual and organizational level, needs to be promoted” and as a student himself, he is working to make it happen.

yesterday by Tom Vander Ark

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Compass Learning

Compass Learning provides educational software that empowers educators to unlock the potential of every student by making learning personal. We serve nearly 8,000 schools and millions of students across the United States.

Learning

Newsela: Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly.

A cool new news-as-literacy platform launched this week. Newsela “is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news.”

2 days ago by Getting Smart Staff

EdTech

#Edtechchat: Summer Plans

In this week's #Edtechchat we covered summer plans, for both learning and relaxing.

2 days ago by Alison Anderson