Looking ahead to teacher retirement? Would love to have interested volunteers attend a planning and development meeting at The Forum in Hazard, on Saturday, June 27th, at 1:00 p.m. to establish a Center for Autism in Hazard, Ky.
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We hope you can make plans to join us for an exciting new and much needed service for individuals diagnosed with autism. A non-profit organization is forming to plan and develop a Center for Autism in Hazard, Kentucky. If interested, please see the image below for more…Read More

Carly teaches first grade, and asks, “Could anybody tell me whether it is just as easy to use a Macbook as a teacher (syncing with Smart board programs etc.), or whether it is best to use a different laptop?”

Carly teaches first grade, and asks, “Could anybody tell me whether it is just as easy to use a Macbook as a teacher (syncing with Smart board programs etc.), or whether it is best to use a different laptop?”

I’m loving this free, online course for planning to lead a school or district in this Digital Age. (20 hours PD available if approved by your district). Here’s a sneak peak.
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Leading the Digital Learning Transition – Unit 1 – Introduction | Hipcast’…Read More

Hey! Are you leading your school or district in the Digital Age? Check out this free, online prep course. You can also obtain 20 hours of PD if you need it.
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Leading the Digital Learning Transition – Unit 1 – Introduction | Hipcast’…Read More

I love what the Healthy Hometown Initiative is doing in Clinton County. Would love to see it here too.
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One of my friends from college is having observers come from Washington, D.C., to observe her Inquiry-based kindergarten classroom. I keep up with her blogs and have seen some wonderful things. I’ve also wondered about the lack of primary colors in the classroom and wondered if there were any research studies linking student performance to…Read More

Here’s a wonderful, big book about celebrating ethnic diversity that my preschoolers enjoyed as I read aloud last week. I placed it in the reading center with multi-ethnic puppets to give students the opportunity to re-tell the story to others. What other books have you all found useful for teaching this…Read More

Anyone have any experience with this resource? I signed up today and am peeking around a bit.
[bpfb_link url=’https://www.opened.io/’ title=’Lesson Plans, Assessments, Homework, Videos, Games. Over a million items aligned to Common Core, PARCC, SBAC’ image=”]Teach, Learn and Analyze with the largest K-12 Resource Library[/bpfb_link]

Anyone have any experience with this resource? I signed up today and am peeking around a bit.
[bpfb_link url=’https://www.opened.io/’ title=’Lesson Plans, Assessments, Homework, Videos, Games. Over a million items aligned to Common Core, PARCC, SBAC’ image=”]Teach, Learn and Analyze with the largest K-12 Resource Library[/bpfb_link]

Anyone used this resource yet? I just signed up today and am peeking around a bit.
[bpfb_link url=’https://www.opened.io/’ title=’Lesson Plans, Assessments, Homework, Videos, Games. Over a million items aligned to Common Core, PARCC, SBAC’ image=”]Teach, Learn and Analyze with the largest K-12 Resource Library[/bpfb_link]

Interesting
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An oldie, but a goodie.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/how-to-create-a-test-that-grades-itself-using-google-forms’ title=’How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms’ image=’http://www.teachthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/google-forms.jpg’]How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms[/bpfb_link]

Here’s an oldie, but a goodie.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/how-to-create-a-test-that-grades-itself-using-google-forms/’ title=’How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google Forms’ image=’http://www.teachthought.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/google-forms.jpg’]How To Create A Test That Grades Itself Using Google…Read More

Below is a link to some of Pre-K teaching strategies I’ve collected for math, science, and technology. Feel free to share yours as well.
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Great for Early Education. It’s free. Only thing to plan for is to use it with a Spanish keyboard on a PC or use the international keyboard function on iPad or iPhone. In some of the exercises, it will count English to Spanish translation inaccurate other wise. (eg. La nina without the accent is incorrect.) In other exercises, it will give…Read More

I am always searching for innovative and creative ways to engage my preschool students in active learning. Below is a link to my treasure chest of ideas that I’ve collected on Pinterest. Feel free to share your treasures too.
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I am always searching for innovative and creative ways to engage my preschool students in active learning. Below is a link to my treasure chest of teaching ideas I’ve collected on Pinterest. Feel free to share your treasures too!
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Some fun, winter-themed learning games for Pre-K.
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My preschool students love this app. I have it on iPad for them to use. I have some students who speak Spanish as their first language. They want to learn English and my English speaking students want to speak Spanish to better communicate and befriend them. This app captures their attention. The interactive speaking and listening component is…Read More

One of my teaching colleagues stopped me in the hallway the other day to share her excitement over using the ClassDojo app. From what I could tell in the two minute exchange that we had, it’s a positive behavior management system. Anyone else had any experience with it?
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Good for a Free 30 Day Trial. My Pre-K students love using this site for online learning.
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Good for a Free 30 Day Trial. My Pre-K students love learning on this site.
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Here are some songs that I use daily in Pre-K that your students may enjoy.
[bpfb_link url=’http://youtu.be/BoAsJq8GUCs?list=PL070F163C9D2AB762′ title=’WHEELS ON THE BUS + More Nursery Rhymes & Learning Songs For Children | 56 Minutes – YouTube’ image=’https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BoAsJq8GUCs/maxresdefault.jpg’]WHEELS ON THE BUS + More Nursery Rhymes &…Read More

My preschool students loved learning to write this way. Early in the school year, we developed their large motor skills and then slowly refined the fine motor skills in increments until they were able to write on lined paper-ready for kindergarten.
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I just found this wonderful resource for teaching Pre-K students who are just learning the English language. Very helpful tips.
[bpfb_link url=’http://www.pre-kpages.com/esl/’ title=’Pre-K | Preschool | Kindergarten | English Language Learners | Pre-K Pages’ image=’http://www.pre-kpages.com/images/ballpicam1.jpg’]Pre-K Pages shares teaching tips…Read More