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These fun, hands-on activities help kids learn key literacy skills in preschool! 🖐️📚 #literacy #PreK #EarlyChildhoodEducation

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Should classroom participation be graded or ungraded? 🤔 #EdChat

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How are teachers using AI to save time and support learning? Let’s find out together! 🔍 Join us for #EduInFocus, a slow chat running from Monday, February 24 to Friday, February 28. Teacher @jenroberts.bsky.social will host, with one question dropping each day. #EduSkyAI #EdTech

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Music education can build key SEL skills! 🎵🗝️ Here’s how 3 teachers—in elementary, middle, and high school—promote kindness, resilience, and self-regulation in music class. #SEL #MusicEducation

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If your students know how to take good notes, then the next question is: Do they know how to use them? 📝 Discover an approach that helps students get more out of their note-taking: #TLSky #HighSchoolTeacher

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This simple kindness-promoting strategy gives “warm and fuzzy” a whole new meaning. 🧶 #ElementaryTeacher #SEL #ClassroomManagement

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#principals #education

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When students are equipped with the skills to manage their own learning, they’re less likely to feel “stuck, anxious, and disengaged,” teacher Nina Parrish says. 🙌 Discover strategies to nurture self-sufficient, empowered learners: https://buff.ly/41vAxDB #EduSky #k12

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Why try tiered assessments? They’re a great way to differentiate instruction and challenge all students at the level they need. 🙌 Here’s a how-to: #assessment

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7 learning myths, busted. 🧠❌ From left- and right-brain thinking to the notion that they can multitask effectively, your students have likely picked up mistaken beliefs about how learning works. Here are 7 of the most common myths—plus the research you can use to dispel them. #EduSky #EdResearch

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These 5 simple scaffolding strategies can help students learn lots more—by breaking learning into bite-sized chunks and providing tools to support them! 🙌 #EduSky

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“Spaced practice” improves information retention—it’s research-backed! 📊🌟 Edutopia’s @annenoyessaini.bsky.social explains how it could work in your lesson plans: #teachers #EduSky

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Improving fluency with foundational math skills doesn’t mean endless hours of drilling. Quick but frequent bursts of practice are actually more effective, research shows. ✖️📊➗ #MathSky #ITeachMath

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Does your school have music, ELL, or art teachers who travel from room to room? Here are some tips for making sure they have the support they need to thrive. 🪴 #EduSky

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AI tools are helping teachers save time—let’s talk about how. 💬 Next week, we’re exploring this topic in an #EduInFocus slow chat. Share your response to one thought-provoking question per day, at your own pace. Join us and host @jenroberts.bsky.social starting February 24! #EduSkyAI #EdTech

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Marco uses this quick exercise to help students reflect and build trusting relationships: https://buff.ly/4ibLOzh #teachers #EduSky

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Want to get students to focus on expressing themselves—not just on writing the “right” thing? ✍️ Have them explore low-stakes writing with this range of stimulating prompts for every grade level. #literacy #EduSky

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What can a bucket drumline do for your elementary students? 🪣🥁 Let them explore music performance, take on leadership opportunities, and build school community. #MusicTeacher #MusicEducation #ElementaryTeacher

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Time for a call home? Elementary teacher Sonja Cassella shares tips for positive (and painless!) phone calls with your students’ parents. “Calling the parents can often be one of the most powerful and useful tools in your management tool kit,” she says. Let's explore. 🧵1/9 #EduSky

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Teacher Megan Cooke achieved National Board Certification in just a year! 🗓️💫 Here’s her step-by-step approach to completing the process. #NBCT #EduSky

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As a special education leader and former teacher, Katie Mitchell has seen how burnout can impact school culture and educators’ quality of life. She shares 5 effective leadership strategies to make sure teachers are supported and valued. 🤝 #SpecialEducation #SchoolLeaders

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I recently achieved National Board Certification in one year. I share my experience in my latest post for @edutopia.org. National Board has very specific requirements for their submissions. I share how I approached this significant task. www.edutopia.org/article/tips...

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I love teaching right triangle trigonometry. Just when my Math II students start to think that math has taken a turn toward abstract symbols and equations and is not “real” enough, trigonometry shows up with all of its lovely simplicity and real-world applications. It really saves the day.

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I am so excited to be moderating a slow chat for @edutopia.org next week! Look for the #EduInFocus question to drop at noon PT daily and join the conversation whenever it works best for you. We will be talking about AI for saving teachers time. #EduSkyAI #AIineducation #Edtech

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With a toolbox of strategies to get students’ attention, raising your voice isn’t the only option when students are engaged in a loud activity or simply not meeting expectations. 🧰 Check out 7 effective tactics: #MiddleSchoolTeacher #HighSchoolTeacher

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How are you doing today, on a scale of medieval lions? 🦁 #EdChat It’s Friday, so we’re feeling #4.

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Building foundational literacy skills starts in preschool! 🛠️ 📖 Here are 3 teacher-tested activities that help young kids have fun as they learn. #literacy #PreK #EarlyChildhoodEducation

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Taking good notes is an important skill—and so is knowing how to use them for learning! ✍️✨ Librarian and teacher Benjamin Barbour explains how you can teach students to make the most of their notes: #TLSky #HighSchoolTeacher

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Metacognitive questions to help students cope with everyday stress 👇 1. Wait—what is the source of this feeling? 2. And how is this stress affecting me? 3. Do I need to ask for help? Who can I talk to about this? 4. What advice would I give to a friend with this problem? #EduSky #teachers

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