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NOVEMBER NEWS
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📌 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Free Posters | Visual Resources
To increase awareness of optics and photonics, SPIE distributes educational posters as a service to the community, SPIE Members, engaged constituents, and outreach professionals.
Posters are also available for download, under the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + No Derivatives license.
FETC Registration Discount
Become an Apple Learning Coach
Apple Learning Coach is a free professional learning program that trains instructional coaches, digital learning specialists, and other coaching educators to help teachers get more out of Apple technology. This online certification course includes a dynamic mix of self-paced lessons, workshop sessions, and personal creative projects. Applications for the current cohort are open now through November 16, 2022.
Activities for Celebrating STEM/STEAM Day on November 8
Check out some great K-12 activities for celebrating STEM/STEAM Day on November 8. How will you celebrate with your students?
The post Activities for Celebrating STEM/STEAM Day appeared first on TechNotes Blog.
Edcamp: YouthMADE on November 5--Register Today
Saturday, November 5
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. (PDT)
This Edcamp will be hosted on Zoom
Looking to connect with educators on supporting youth creativity and innovation in education? Join us on Saturday, November 5 for Edcamp: YouthMADE, an online unconference-style professional development for and by educators.
This Edcamp invites in-school and out-of-school educators worldwide to share their experiences and expertise as they discuss ways to support youth making, activism, art, and design in education. Together, we will hold space for discussions, sharing, and networking as we build a community among educators interested in designing learning experiences that foster youth voice, creativity, and innovation.
Register to attend on November 5, 2022. Invite your colleagues, staff, and anyone you think would be interested in attending this incredible event!
Read the Newest Issue of ‘Learning for Justice’ Magazine for SO Many Educator Resources
Read the Newest Issue of ‘Learning for Justice’ Magazine! In promoting diversity and fighting racism, inclusive education programs forged pathways toward building equitable societies. Now, as our nation confronts multiple assaults on democratic values, we hold firm in the fight to protect—and to expand—democracy through social justice education, including the Learning for Justice Educator Fund.
Teach the Midterms with Election Central
With the midterm elections coming up on November 8, it’s important to start talking with your students about why voting and elections are an essential part of our democracy. Keep up with election news, study the history and process of elections, learn why midterm elections are important, and engage your classroom in debates with our collection of videos, activities, and fun lesson plans.
Citizens of the United States have certain responsibilities and civic duties that are meant to help our country run smoothly. In this short video clip, you can help your students explore some of these vital civic duties – obeying the law, paying taxes, jury duty, and registering for the Selective Service.
Spotlight on Your Mental Health
Improve your health and the well-being of your community with Apple Teacher
- To make good health and preventative decisions about our bodies, it’s crucial that everyone has access to important and accurate health information. For the fourth challenge in our Taking Action on Racial Equity and Justice learning series, we invite you and your students to make a sustaining impact, with the new Help Shape a Healthier Society discussion guide. Learn more and download the guide
- Try some health challenges. The small steps you take to improve your personal health have an impact on the community and world. Apple has created mini challenges designed to inspire you to get active, eat well, and support your mental health. Download the guide
From THE Journal
3 Ways Technology Can Help Schools Address the Mental Health Crisis
As schools respond to the far-reaching mental health crisis in our schools, close collaboration between students, families, schools, community organizations, and support services can be a game-changer, and technology can play a role in making the collaboration easier and automatic. An expert in digital case management systems shares three ways schools can enhance their collaboration practices to better address students' needs.
5 Things Schools Can Do Now to Boost Teacher Retention
The solution to teacher burnout and turnover lies in ensuring literacy educators are valued, heard, and have access to the science of reading knowledge, as well as tools that are based in the science and empower them by taking some of the work off their plates — here are five things schools can do right now to support teachers and improve retention.
Apply to the PBS LearningMedia Pilot Testing Program
Calling all educators! PBS LearningMedia is currently seeking ELA and Social Studies educators in grades 6-12 to pilot test educational materials created for the Ken Burns in the Classroom collection. This paid opportunity will require implementing materials in your class, providing sample work, and when possible, allowing classroom observation by a member of the PBS LearningMedia team. Apply Here.
ISTE Certification Informational Webinars
Do you have some questions about ISTE Certification for Educators that you wish a human would answer? Here’s your solution … plus a couple of special deals from ISTE!
Attend one of the 30-minute info sessions with Certification Director Carmalita Seitz for real talk, and real answers to your certification questions.
Choose from these upcoming dates and times:
- Tuesday, November 15, 2022 3:00 PM ET
- Monday, December 12, 2022 4:30 PM ET
For more information and to sign up, click here!
TCEA TECH BLOG GOODIES
HOW TO CREATE ACCESSIBLE AND EQUITABLE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
HOW TO CREATE A DIGITAL BADGE LEADERBOARD
THREE SOCIAL MEDIA-INSPIRED STUDENT PROJECTS
FIVE TIPS FOR USING NONLINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS
NINE TIPS FOR GIVING GREAT FEEDBACK TO EMPLOYEES
DIGITAL LIT CIRCLES: A PROCESS AND TEMPLATES FOR ANY LMS
MORE MICROSOFT WORD FEATURES YOU MAY NOT KNOW
✔👀👌😘5 Minute Tips of the Month
🎥 Webinars of the Month
😍 FREE Extension of the Month
This extension allows you to work on multiple Google products without leaving your screen...it helps you be more productive!
Click on picture below for more information.
💻 📱 Tech Certification of the Month
💫MICROSOFT SUPPORT
Educators Can Get Office 365 for FREE
Flip Blog with Updates
🌈 Google Updates
A Couple More Google Updates
To Stay Updated, Watch ALL Here or EDU in 90: The Latest, September 2022
Introducing Artifact Sharing in Google Meet
Previously only shared with the meeting host, features like recordings, attendance tracking, polling, and more can now be shared directly with meeting co-hosts as well!
Driving Impactful Instruction with Google Workspace for Education
Calling and Curriculum & School Leaders and Educators! Join us to get hands-on with Google for Education's newest and most impactful teaching and learning features. We'll go through commonly-faced challenges and how you can save time solving them with the help of Google tools.
Teach and Learn with Chrome
Register to hear about the latest Chromebooks and ChromeOS updates in events from October 4th to November 3rd. Learn new ways to keep your district secure, brand new features to enable efficient teaching and learning (like Screencast and cast moderator), and so much more.
Help Your Students Apply to College with Applied Digital Skills
Looking for lessons to help your students apply for college or other educational opportunities? Our College Readiness Collection teaches digital skills while helping to organize college applications, prepare for upcoming interviews, searching for scholarships, and much more!
Arts & Culture: Solar System in 3D
More than seventy 3D models of planets and NASA spacecraft are now available, along with new NASA stories, on a solar system theme page. Annotations help users understand what they're seeing, making these a fun way to learn space science.
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Dr. Desiree Alexander, Educator Alexander Consulting
Dr. Desiree Alexander is an award-winning, multi-degreed educator who has been in the educational field since 2002. She is the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC and the Deputy Director for the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana. She consults with members of several schools/businesses and presents at conferences globally.
Dr. Alexander is lifetime certified in Louisiana in Secondary English Education, as a Reading Specialist, as a School Librarian, as an Educational Technology Facilitator, as an Educational Technology Leader and in Educational Leadership 1. She is certified in Texas as a Principal, in English Language Arts and Reading for grades 4-8 and grades 8-12, as a Reading Specialist for grades EC-12, and as a School Librarian. She holds multiple technology certifications, including, but not limited to, IC3 certification, Google Certified Trainer and Innovator, Apple Teacher, and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer and Expert.
She holds a Bachelor, a Master + 30, and an Education Specialist Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Louisiana State University, a Master of Library Science from Texas Woman’s University and a Master of Educational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Technology Leadership from Nicholls State University. She also holds a Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Educational Leadership from Lamar University.
She is a 2022 & 2021 Texas Computer Education Association Featured Thought Leader, 2020 International Society for Technology in Education Featured Voice, 2020 Future of Education Technology Conference Featured Presenter, 2019 Customer Commitment Award Honoree from Better Business Bureau's Torch Awards for Ethics, a 2019 Shreveport National Pan-Hellenic Council Mover and Shaker, a 2017 Young Professional Initiative 40 Under 40 Awards Honoree, 2017 Center for Digital Education Top 30 Technologists, Transformers & Trailblazers, 2017 PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator for Louisiana, 2016 Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana Member of the Year, 2015 Librarian of the Year for Louisiana Librarian Association, 2015 Campus Teacher of the Year in the Zachary Community School District and 2014 Leader of the Year for Region 2 Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators.
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