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#17: Microsoft One Note: Useful Tips and Tricks for the Classroom Feb 21, 2017

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Dr. Tom Grissom @tomgrissom shares a useful tool, Microsoft One Note. Today we discuss:

A description of Microsoft One Note
What Microsoft Classroom does with One Note
The collaborative features of One Note
The features beyond notetaking including taking notes in multiple notes
The cognitive research and how to use One Note for review and retention

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#16 Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap Feb 20, 2017

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Dave Burgess from the bestselling book, Teach Like a Pirate, gets us motivated to engage our students. Greatness happens outside your comfort zone. Get feedback to improve your class. Don't get so upset when you have a mistake in a lesson. These are just a few topics discussed into day's Motivation Monday.

In today's show we discuss:

Engaging students in lessons
Observations and doing engaging lessons
Worries about being taken out of context when being observed
What Dave misses about the classroom
What matters in the classroom

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#15 5 Simple Ways to Gamify Your Classroom Feb 17, 2017

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Jessica Gordon @1337teach , 6th-grade teacher from Missouri gives us simple tips for adding game-based learning to our classrooms. Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she first began her teaching career at Buder Elementary within the St. Louis Public School District. Currently, she serves as a sixth-grade geography teacher for the Poplar Bluff School District as well as a Project Manager for Hilton Publishing. For more information about the author and her current publications follow her on Twitter @1337teach, Goodreads, or search for seller "1337 Teacher" on Teachers Pay Teachers.

In today's show, we'll discuss:

5 cool gbl tools: Wheel Decide, Breakout Facebook groups, challenges, some awesome quizzing tools
Simple tips on making any lesson more fun
The big mistake many educators make when working to gamify their classroom.

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

And today only, February 17, to celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day, Jessica is giving away the Kindle version of her book free on the US Amazon Kindle store to our listeners. "It's a Teacher Thing! FAQ Guide and Reflective Journal for New Teachers" is currently available in eBook and paperback through Amazon Kindle. Visit https://www.amazon.com/Teacher-Thing-Reflective-Journal-Teachers/dp/1520398247 -- and it is free today on Kindle in the US Amazon store! Enjoy and thank you, Jessica!

#14: To Stand Against Bullying, Mr. Hadley Shaves His Head Feb 16, 2017

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Tim Hadley's (@MrHadleyHistory) stand against bullying by shaving his head is remarkable. Tim Hadley is the principal at Pekin CSD Middle School in Packwood, Iowa and he is the part of the latest viral video in education. Even more remarkable is his wisdom he shares about the biggest mistake educators make when dealing with bullying situations. Wow!

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#13 Tackling Behavior Problems by Acting out Negative Stereotypes in the School Perfect Project Feb 15, 2017

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How do you reduce problem behaviors? Could it be as simple as acting out negative behaviors? Todd Clinton is a special education teacher in a middle school. He works with students with behavioral disabilities, typically autism, ADHD, and EMD. He was previously a banker, before deciding to pursue my passion of working with kids. He is a proud dad to one and loves teachers so much he married one.

In today's show, special education teacher Todd Clinton discusses his "School Perfect" YouTube project and how it is reducing negative behaviors in his school. Todd also discusses how all teachers can work to reduce problem behaviors through acting out negative stereotypes. Finally, Todd's discussion of how his project has evolved and grown through the year is a perfect example of my own innovation strategy, "Innovate Like a Turtle." This show has practical examples that teachers can use.

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#12 31 Favorite Everyday Tech Tools of Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher Feb 14, 2017

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Host Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher shares 31 of her favorite tools for filmmaking, productivity, classroom management, and health. Happy Tech Tool Tuesday and Happy Valentine's Day. Today you'll learn all kinds of tools that the host of the 10-Minute Teacher loves and uses just about every day.

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#11 A Song for Teachers: You're the Teacher by Jim Forde #MondayMotivation Feb 13, 2017

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Jim Forde is a middle school science teacher in Stamford, CT for over 20 years experience. He is a past Stamford teacher of the year and a 2016 White House Champion of Change honoree for work in CS in Education. As a STEM/CS advocate, he curates the @stemnetwork twitter feed (with over 3800 followers) when not singing and songwriting. :-)

Jim Forde's song "You're the Teacher" and his inspiring message helps us remember why we're in this profession. Happy Motivational Monday! Get excited and ready for the week with today's guest and motivational song. A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#10: 5 Ideas for Improving Student Writing Feb 10, 2017

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Jennifer Serravallo (@jserravallo) is a literacy consultant, speaker, and the author of several popular titles including the NY Times Bestselling The Reading Strategies Book, the newly-released Writing Strategies Book, and the two-time award-winning Independent Reading Assessment Series.

She was a Senior Staff Developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and taught in Title I schools in NYC.

Jennifer shares 5 ideas for improving writing in your classroom today. First, she encourages teachers to focus on one goal to help students improve. She also talks about the risks of not focusing when you teach writing and gives examples of goals and how to keep from confusing kids when you're teaching writing. Second, she shares how we can set up partnerships for learning and the most common mistake teachers make when using writing partners. Third, she talks about waiting to correct grammar and punctuation until they have their thoughts down on paper. She discusses what happens when teachers don't follow this advice. Her fourth piece of advice is one of the most exciting! Outline on sticky notes and put it on the paper. She shares how to do this for both fiction and non-fiction writing. Finally, Jennifer talks about a common mistake teachers make that hurts a student's desire to write. Plan a celebration. She talks about what this looks like as well as that all important "pre-promotion" to students of what you will do with the work.

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#09: 5 Things That Harm a Student's Ability to Succeed Feb 09, 2017

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Dr. Brad Johnson (@DrBradJohnson) talks about five things that harm a student's ability to succeed. Brad teaches graduate-level leadership courses and other educational courses and is the author of six books.

Today, he shares with us the things we do to harm student success.

First, he discusses the disservice of a sedentary lifestyle.

Second, he talks about what happens to kids when adults expect them to learn like adults.

Third, he discusses an important point with several applications for schools that more is not better. This has implications for how we teach math to even how we inspire creativity.

Fourth, he talks about core strength and the problems we're having because today's students don't have it like their ancestors. (Only 1 in 12 of today's students have the core strength and balance of those in the 1980's.) He also discusses how it impacts their focus, organization, and executive functioning.

Finally, Brad talks about teamwork and how students should be taught to be team players but what we must do to let that happen.

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

#08: The #BreakoutEDU Box: the Teaching Experience That Has Everybody Talking Feb 08, 2017

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Adam Bellow (@adambellow) explains the #BreakoutEDU phenomenon that has educators talking. Last year everyone was talking MakerSpaces but this year, BreakoutEDU is the big conversation.

As co-founder of #BreakoutEDU Adam explains how these boxes work. He also discusses how teaching changes and the way teachers have to adjust to this exciting but different way of teaching. He also sets expectations for what the classroom looks and feels like when using the boxes in the curriculum.

A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on entering this month's giveaway contests.

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