Bret Biørnstad

I'm just a 5th grade teacher that sometimes finds great stuff and rather than keeping it to myself I decided to share my finds with you.

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Education Technology
Six Tools To Create Interactive Learning Content On Your Blog
theedublogger.com - -by-
This is a guest post from Roslyn Green who is a secondary school (high school) teacher from Melbourne, Australia. Roslyn uses Edublogs and CampusPress …
Mass Shootings
Reading Comprehension Practice that Will Have Your Kids Obsessed
theclassroomkey.com
Sharing is caring! How to make reading comprehension instruction engaging with ideas from the book Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters by …
Dialogic Talk Enriching Our Students’ Reading Metacognition and Close Reading: The Need to Teach Metacognition | In-Sight
esc13.net
Author: Janet Hester, Secondary ELAR Specialist We know that we must accelerate our students’ rate of literacy growth to close achievement gaps. We …
Mark Twain
The 1 Thing That Mark Twain Said That Stops Prejudice Dead in Its Tracks
Inc Magazine - By John White
Challenging your worldview takes courage. Ugh, if I heard one more person tell me to "be careful," I was going to lose it. I was packing my bags for my first-ever international speaking gig at the Social
Vocabulary
ReadWorks eBooks
readworks.org
The research is clear that readers, including new and struggling readers, need to build background knowledge and vocabulary in order to comprehend …
Curriculum Development
Assign articles and research
readworks.org
Education Technology
Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best
edtechmagazine.com - by Eli Zimmerman Twitter Eli has been eagerly pursuing a journalistic career since he left the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill School of Journalism. Previously, Eli was a staff reporter for medical trade publication Frontline Medical News, where he experienced the impact of continuous education and evolving teaching methods through the medical lens. When not in the office, Eli is busy scanning the web for the latest podcasts or stepping into the boxing ring for a few rounds.
There are a number of digital classroom offerings available for K–12 teachers to use. However, none are more widely adopted than Google Classroom and …
$Geometry For Elementary Students Beyond Just Shapes - The Recovering Traditionalist$
Geometry
Geometry For Elementary Students Beyond Just Shapes - The Recovering Traditionalist
therecoveringtraditionalist.com
The Next Student Blogging Challenge Starts Soon
freetech4teachers.com - noreply@blogger.com (Richard Byrne)
Blogging can be a great way to get students interested in writing and publishing their work for an audience. The challenges of classroom blogging …
Teaching
Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This?
catlintucker.com - Catlin Tucker
“If I don’t grade it, students won’t do it.” This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent …
Western Oregon
Welcome to the chowder belt of the central Oregon coast
oregonlive.com
Pedagogy
6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom
teachthought.com - TeachThought Staff
6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom by Dr. Monica R. Martinez Ed note: This post has been updated and republished from a 2015 …
Closed Captioning
Google Slides Has Easy Peasy Accessible Closed Captions
theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com
Closed captioning is helpful for many students when listening to presentations, but it wasn't always easy to provide. Until now. Closed captioning in …
The Two Most Important Questions to Ask to Determine if Learning is Taking Place
esheninger.blogspot.com
There are so many thoughts and ideas as to what learning really looks and feels like. From these conversations, educators form their own perspectives …
Preparing to Teach in the Middle
readingbyexample.com - Author Matt Renwick
When I was a 5th- and 6th-grade classroom teacher, my lesson plans primarily consisted of the following: the learning objective and how I would …
Self-Criticism
Are You Doing Quick Writes in Your Classroom? Why You Should Be (Especially in an AP Language and Composition Class)
threeteacherstalk.com
Grief is a house. We were using this quick write from Linda Reif’s The Quickwrite Handbook since in AP Language and Composition we were beginning an …
Politics
The Power Of Congress After Trump's Emergency Declaration
NPR
The president circumvented Congress by declaring a national emergency. James Wallner of the conservative R Street Institute tells NPR's Scott Simon that lawmakers failed to take action to stop Trump. SCOTT
Pie
Awesome Pie Creations by Lauren Ko
fubiz.net - Edwige
Lauren Ko is a Seattle-based pastry artist specializing in the design of original and colorful pies. Close to perfection and really symmetrical, her …
Onions
Ranch Dressing
Epicurious - Kemp Minifie
It's not hard to understand why ranch dressing is so popular: It's creamy without being heavy, with a good herbal kick and a subtle garlic presence. …
This insect-sized drone can fly without any moving parts. How? Physics
Digital Trends - Luke Dormehl
Flying drones can vary in size anywhere from cute little quadcopters that fit in the palm of your hand to giant passenger drones capable of …
Why Screen Time Isn't Bad for Kids | Goop
goop - Goop
Photo courtesy of Jamie Chung/Trunk Archive Why Screen Time Isn’t Bad for Kids Screen time for kids is the worst. It’s frying their brains. It’s …
Flipped Classroom
Five Steps to Practical and Personalized Blended Learning
ascd.org - ASCD
The Technology Schools Need to Thrive February 14, 2019 | Volume 14 | Issue 17 Table of Contents Share | Five Steps to Practical and Personalized Blended …
Onions
Make French Onion Soup in Your Instant Pot Tonight — Delicious Links
The Kitchn - Ariel Knutson
I regularly dream about the French onion soup I had with my mom while she was visiting me in Paris. I was a relatively broke college student studying …
Growing a Classroom Environment Where Writers are Seen and Inspired
twowritingteachers.org - kelseycorter
A place to make meaning of ourselves and the world around us, writing is a powerful tool for self-discovery. However, when idea-collection tools and …
Visceral
How to get rid of visceral fat: Six foods to include in your diet to reduce the belly fat
express.co.uk - By Katrina Turrill
Visceral fat is one of two main types of fat found in the body. The other, subcutaneous fat sits under the skin and is usually visible. Visceral fat …
Stock Markets
Vanguard dramatically cuts its expected rate of return for the stock market over the next decade
CNBC - Matthew J. Belvedere
The stock market won't keep returning the kinds of yearly gains investors have gotten used to since the financial crisis bottom in 2009, Vanguard's …
Revising and Editing with Jeff Anderson Part II
threeteacherstalk.com
If you haven’t had the chance to see Jeff Anderson in person and hear him deliver the gospel of editing instruction, be prepared…he’s very tall. He’s …
10 ways to get healthier after 60
CNN - By Bruce Horovitz, Kaiser Health News
It takes moxie to flip an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthy one -- particularly for folks over 60. Most baby boomers approach retirement age unwilling to follow basic healthy lifestyle goals established
Level Up Your Teaching With NoteStreaming
eiuitc.blogspot.com
Level Up Your Teaching With NoteStreaming November 2018 Tom Grissom, Ph.D. What is NoteStreaming? NoteStreaming is a framework for...

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Six Tools To Create Interactive Learning Content On Your Blog

Reading Comprehension Practice that Will Have Your Kids Obsessed

Dialogic Talk Enriching Our Students’ Reading Metacognition and Close Reading: The Need to Teach Metacognition | In-Sight

The 1 Thing That Mark Twain Said That Stops Prejudice Dead in Its Tracks

ReadWorks eBooks

Assign articles and research

Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best

Geometry For Elementary Students Beyond Just Shapes - The Recovering Traditionalist

The Next Student Blogging Challenge Starts Soon

Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This?

Welcome to the chowder belt of the central Oregon coast

6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom

Google Slides Has Easy Peasy Accessible Closed Captions

The Two Most Important Questions to Ask to Determine if Learning is Taking Place

Preparing to Teach in the Middle

Are You Doing Quick Writes in Your Classroom? Why You Should Be (Especially in an AP Language and Composition Class)

The Power Of Congress After Trump's Emergency Declaration

Awesome Pie Creations by Lauren Ko

Ranch Dressing

This insect-sized drone can fly without any moving parts. How? Physics

Why Screen Time Isn't Bad for Kids | Goop

Five Steps to Practical and Personalized Blended Learning

Make French Onion Soup in Your Instant Pot Tonight — Delicious Links

Growing a Classroom Environment Where Writers are Seen and Inspired

How to get rid of visceral fat: Six foods to include in your diet to reduce the belly fat

Vanguard dramatically cuts its expected rate of return for the stock market over the next decade

Revising and Editing with Jeff Anderson Part II

10 ways to get healthier after 60

Level Up Your Teaching With NoteStreaming