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Bellevue Public Schools, Bellevue, NE
On The Road to 1:1
We start another year on our path to becoming a 1:1 district by providing all teachers with professional learning and job embedded coaching to successfully launch their 1:1 classrooms. We currently have 61 teachers attending BPS Blended Professional learning where teachers are learning about the components of blended learning including digital workflow, targeting instruction with real-time data, collaboration, and creation.
We are excited to share that eight of our elementary schools will be 1:1 on October 24th. All of our elementary schools will be 1:1 on January 24th, 2020.
2019-2020 BPS BlendED Training Dates
Three Free Formative Assessment Ideas for your Classroom
Mentimeter
Quizlet Live
Socrative
Socrative provides a variety of options for formative assessments. Teachers can create quizzes and exit tickets as a check for understanding. Space race is a fun collaborative way for students to review course content. Students can either play play together by sharing a single device or play together on the same team, but answering on separate devices. All of these activities will provide the teacher with formative data.
Google Tips
G-Mail
G-Mail: Schedule Emails so Recipients Receive Them During Work Hours
Compose a new email.
Click the triangle next to the blue “Send” button.
Select one of the suggested times, or click “Pick date & time” to customize when exactly you want the message to go out.
Click “Schedule send”
Google Docs: Speech to Text Typing is a Time Saver
Check that your microphone works.
Open a document in Google docs with a Chrome browser.
Click Tools > Voice typing. A microphone box appears.
When you're ready to speak, click the microphone.
Speak clearly, at a normal volume and pace (see below for more information on using punctuation).
When you're done, click the microphone again.
Schoology Tip
Individually Assign Folders
Individually Assign Folders - This feature allows teachers to assign folders to specific students and grading groups so that only the assignees can view the folder and its contents. Any materials added to the folder are automatically updated to be available to the assigned student(s). This is a great way to privately differentiate for students.
Learning Links
Back to School Ideas and Ice Breakers
Podcasts
Joe Sanfelippo also has a leadership challenge. Check it out here.
2. Vrain Waves - Listen to giants in education as you travel around town. Each episode is an interview with educational authors and is full of tangible tips and resources.
Badging Up
You can also earn a badge for participating in just one Twitterchat this school year. Our first chat is September 10th at 8:00PM. Here is a schedule for all the chats: 9/19, 10/8, 11/12, 1/14, 2/11, 3/10, and 4/14.
#iPadAcademy Chat
This is year two of our teacher led #PadAcademy Twitter chat. The chat allows us to have an online conversation, share ideas, and be inspired. Our #ipadacademy chats are held monthly on the second Tuesday at 8:00 PM CST.
Our first #iPadAcademy chat of the year is Tuesday, September 10, 2019 from 8:00-8:30 PM.
Attend one chat and earn a badge for your lanyard! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to your building tech coordinator.
The archived chats can be found here.
Hashtags Telling Our Story
One of the most powerful parts of Twitter is the hashtag! It connects people, ideas, and creates communities within Twitter. It is a unique way for our teachers and administrators to share the amazing things happening in our schools, classrooms, clubs, teams and organizations. Our district hashtag, #bpsne, continues to grow and is becoming a powerful tool that we can leverage as a district to connect all of our teachers, students, parents, and community members. We encourage you to continue sharing the great things happening in your classrooms. Here is a list of all of the Bellevue Public School educators on Twitter. Let's create the 2019-2020 Bellevue Public Schools story together!
Tweet Time--Tweets From Those You Know
District Instructional Technology Specialists
Jeanette Carlson
Twitter: @mrsjcarlson
Chelsea Hoglund
Twitter: @choglund87
Ann Feldmann
Twitter: @annfeldmann1
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