Reshaping Learning with SchoolDay

Veteran teacher Cindi Krebs explains how BoomWriter allows students to collaborate on a story which can then be published into a softcover book.  Students also love group writing activities, skills lessons and journal activities.

Benjamin Dancer, a teacher at the Jefferson County Open School (JCOS) and a 24 year veteran, shares his huge passion for fostering curiosity and connection through authentic relationship and experience. JCOS is a life changing alternative to conventional schooling.

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Grey Nakayama has been a High School math teacher, working with advanced levels of Math, for 26 years. She is an enthusiastic cheerleader for ClassCalc, saying that it has made both her and her students lives easier and learning better.

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Elizabeth Yarnell devotes her passion for story, movie-making and engaging the most reluctant learners to a tool that can bring life and excitement into pretty much any content area and topic. 

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See Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Inclusion

Tamara Speidel, principal of Buffalo Trail Elementary School in Cherry Creek Schools uses Class Composer to guarantee that every student has other students like them in their class each year.  She loves Class Composer for its ability to help guarantee demographic equity, as well as save her faculty and herself HOURS of work in balancing class lists for the upcoming academic year.

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Anita Landoll describes a methodology that she developed to help struggling readers learn to read, which she calls "The Sounds of Words."

Darnell Jenkins shares how he uses Figure Math to engage high school students with different learning styles as they become more proficient in not only solving equations, but also exploring, collaborating, creating and evaluating math together.

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Teresa Gonzalez shares how SEL Adventures supported the turn around of a challenging class, and helped students learn how they learn best through the motivation of this online game. 

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Brendon Jobs, Director of Diversity & Inclusion at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, shares how learning the Question Formulation Technique energized his teaching, and shares with us how to bring this technique into our classrooms to better engage students in challenging content.

David VanSicklen, Advanced Learning Specialist in the Middleton Cross Plains School District in Madison, WI, shares his affinity for the app Seesaw for younger elementary students.  He says Seesaw has "unlimited possibilities."

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