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Trevor MacKenzie on episode 315 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Fantastic ideas to bring the inquiry mindset into the classroom including curiosity jars, provocations and more. Trevor MacKenzie gives us ideas to help kids become excited and curious. Listen Now Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here . *** Enhanced Transcript Trevor MacKenzie: 5 Ideas to Bring the Inquiry Mindset into Your Classroom Today Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e315 Date: May 18, 2018 Vicki: Today we’re talking with Trevor MacKenzie, 17-year educator from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and author of Inquiry Mindset . I actually found him on the hashtag, because # inquirymindset going crazy, Trevor. Today we’re talking about five ideas to bring inquiry mindset into the classroom. Trevor, what is your first idea? Trevor: Thanks so much, Vicki, for having me. My first i...

Ann Oro on episode 314 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Ann Oro helped her diocese develop curriculum standards for digital citizenship by grade level. Ann also talks about the fifth-grade course piloted by Seton Hall in two of her schools. Listen Now Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here . *** Enhanced Transcript Ann Oro: A Digital Citizenship Curriculum Link to show: https://ift.tt/2k29r2k Date: May 17, 2018 Vicki: Today we’re talking with my friend, Ann Oro. We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. (laughs) I really followed so much of what Ann has done. She was in the classroom for many, many years. Now she is working as Director of K-12 Instructional Technology for the 93 schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and really work...

Daily Fitness Challenges, a Fun Sweepstakes, and a Way to Link to Parents for Healthy Lifestyle Choices From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We need promote healthy lifestyles for our students. The program fit 4Schools from Sanford Health, collaborating with WebMD is just that program. In this post, I’m going to tell you about the fit 4Schools, a daily program you can use in your classroom to boost fitness, and an awesome contest that you can enter to win rainy day supplies for PE teachers or flexible seating for your classroom. Sponsored by fit 4Schools What is fit 4Schools? fit 4Schools gives families simple things they can do each day to help make healthy lifestyle choices a habit. Parents can create an account and follow a classroom and their activities, which connects home and school in a powerful way to talk about fitness. Educators create accounts and can create a classroom. I like how the site demonstrates that we have influ...

Carrie Pierce on episode 313 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Eighth-grade teacher Carrie Pierce uses discovery and inquiry-based learning in her classroom (and no textbooks.) Dig into how she makes math marvelous! Listen Now Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here . *** Enhanced Transcript Discovery and Inquiry-Based Learning in Math Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e313 Date: May 16, 2018 Vicki: Today we’re talking with Carrie Pierce, 20-year middle school math teacher, about discovery and inquiry-based learning in math. Carrie is just up the road from me. She lives in Edison. She’s at Lee County, just one county over. Two counties over from me here in Mitchell County in Georgia. So Carrie, let’s talk about how we can have discovery and inquiry-based learning in the math classroom. How do we do it? Carrie: Well, it is a challenge. One of the thin...

My students speak out on episode 312 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, three of my students take the mic. In a recent podcasting project, my students reflected on their opinions about social media. In this episode, three of my students share their views (with parent permission, of course.) What do you think? Leave a message for them in the comments, I’ll make sure they get them. Listen to the show on  iTunes  or  Stitcher Stream by clicking here . There’s no transcript for this episode. The post Liz, Aly, & Walt: Ticked Off Teens Talk about Social Media and Smartphones appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Meow! From http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e312/ via Vicki Davis at coolcatteacher.com . Please also check out my show for busy teachers, Every Classroom Matters and my Free teaching tutorials on YouTube .

Kayla Delzer on episode 311 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Kayla Delzer motivates us to relinquish control and empower students with three powerful examples. From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom. Listen Now Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here . *** Enhanced Transcript Kayla Delzer: Student Leadership Link to show: https://ift.tt/2GdPsGL Date: May 14, 2018 Vicki: Happy Motivational Monday! Some of you are going to laugh at this. So we’ve got the Top Dog Teacher talking to the Cool Cat Teacher, so we have a Top Dog and a Cool Cat today for Motivational Monday. (laughs) But we’re talking with Kayla Delzer about students as leaders, which is a theme, Kayla, that you have a lot. What do you mean by students as leaders? ...