10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher

Mastermind groups are innovative ways to create safe spaces for teachers to grow and learn together. In this show 2012 National Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki shares how she has facilitated Mastermind groups successfully. She talks about the pitfalls and challenges of creating spaces to innovate and why mastermind groups aren't for every teacher. www.coolcatteacher.com/e366 Sponsor: From n...

Students need to know how to safely navigate their digital world. In this show, I share how I teach the 9 Key P's of Digital Citizenship in 5 simple steps. Enjoy! www.coolcatteacher.com/e365 Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorChoose.org projects. Go to advanceme...

André Sasser, 9-year math teacher, tweeted something that has been viewed by 14 million people. This simple statement has transformed Andre's classroom in powerful ways. Learn about the question and the changes that have made her math classroom a more exciting place. www.coolcatteacher.com364 Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses, an online provider of professional development...

Geo-inquiry helps students learn through geographic based explorations. Geo-inquiry expert Jim Bentley (author of the free National Geographic Geo-Inquiry Educator Guide ) talks about what this project-based learning method looks like in his fifth grade classroom. www.coolcatteacher.com363 Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provider of professional development fo...

Online content must be riveting, interesting, and should educate students. Andrew Pass @ apasseducation talks about trends in online education and shares the trends we should understand as educators. www.coolcatteacher.com362 Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorC...

  Teaching motivation and metacognitive principles is challenging.  While he started as a journalism teacher, now Chris Holmes @ cholmes66 works with students to try to help them understand motivation and success principles. He will share with us what works (and doesn't) and also will tackle misconceptions and misapplications of the word "grit." You can't just tell students to "have grit" but ther...

Kimberly Mitchell talks about how we can promote inquiry in the classroom. From helping students to effectively generate questions to modeling curiosity, we have five practical ideas to bring inquiry into our classroom. www.coolcatteacher.com/e360   Powerschool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my "Digital Dozen: 12 Tip...

AP US History Teacher, Andrew Sharos, talks about how to create a collaborative environment that helps students learn and succeed in AP courses. www.coolcatteacher.com/e358 Powerschool has fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my "Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom". PowerSchool is my only recommended SIS and LMS.

Sean Wybrant, 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year, has students building virtual reality and augmented reality experiences. They are programming in advanced ways with a full motion capture lab. Even more amazing are the methods Sean is using to teach his students. www.coolcatteacher.com/e358    PowerSchool has fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar inc...

David Hopkins, author of Emergency Rations #EdTechRations: What's so important we can't leave it at home?, talks about the educational technology that educators around the world carry in their bags and pockets. www.coolcatteacher.com/e357 Sponsor: PowerSchool has a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my "Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Buildi...

Teacher Morgan Toal shares the powerful writing project that she calls the "Thank You Project" - what a great way to be kind and considerate and teach writing at the same time! www.coolcatteacher.com/e356    Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my "Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Clas...

Aaron Polansky gives us five exciting ways to have a positive cultural impact in your school on Monday. www.coolcatteacher.com/e355  

Jennifer Degenhardt talks about how she uses stories in Spanish to help students engage with learning Spanish. www.coolcatteacher.com/e354  

Rayna Freedman inspires her elementary students with a spy-themed classroom experience that runs throughout the year. Learn how she does it and why in this fun Wonderful Classroom Wednesday. www.coolcatteacher.com/e353  

IT Integrator, Evan Mosier, and his teacher friend, Tom, have a remarkable story of persistence when first working to integrate Google Classroom. Be inspired to overcome and persist because our students need us to do it! www.coolcatteacher.com/e352  

Oskar Cymerman shares some unique memory techniques we can use to help kids learn and remember. www.coolcatteacher.com/e351  

Encouragement and inspiration for teachers from a classroom teacher. Ideas, research, and inspiring thoughts we can all use for our classrooms. www.coolcatteacher.com/e350   Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr   and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Hea...

John Stevens talks about a method of lesson planning to help teachers "serve up" more exciting lessons to students. www.coolcatteacher.com/e349 Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr   and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and 10 Acer Aspire 7 lap...

Kate Bradford and Brett Miller share their secrets for student-driven Hyperdocs. Taken from their popular ISTE 2018 session, learn about the next evolution of Hyperdocs and how they're being used in the classroom. www.coolcatteacher.com/e348   Sponsor:  Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer...

Michael Furdyk from Taking IT Global talks about some global initiatives to help students understand indigenous peoples and develop empathy. www.coolcatteacher.com/e347

Todd Nelsoney and Travis Crowder talk about some of the ideas to get kids excited about reading and writing from their book "Sparks in the Dark." We can motivate and excite kids about reading and writing. www.coolcatteacher.com/e346

Evan Mosier from Iowa teaches us some awesome Googley ideas to start our school year with excitement and creativity. www.coolcatteacher.com/e345 Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorChoose.org projects. Go to advancementcourses.com/give to submit your project toda...

Jody Green and Dr. Tim Greene talk about taking teaching to the next level with #supermuch. We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. www.coolcatteacher.com/e344   Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their...

Classroom teacher Faith Maria Brody talks about how she inspires a love of writing in her fifth graders. www.coolcatteacher.com/e343   Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorChoose.org projects. Go to advancementcourses.com/give to submit your project today. AND, if...

Augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality are terms being thrown around in technology circles. But what do the mean? How are they being used in the classroom? Jaime Donally talks about these technologies in simple language and helps us understand the classroom applications of them. www.coolcatteacher.com/e342 Sponsor: From now until September 28, Advancement Courses , an online provide...