Episode 24: Avoiding the Summer Slide (For Teachers)

Many teachers give advice to parents on how to keep kids engaged during the summer. Sean and Kelly take their own advice and apply it to teachers and professional development. In this episode, we discuss how to avoid the “Summer Slide” and what we are doing to keep on learning.

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• Amazon.com: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (Singularity Series Book 1) eBook: William Hertling: Kindle Store — The book that Kelly skipped (and apparently Sean read in 2013)
• Amazon.com: A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity Series Book 2) eBook: William Hertling: Gateway — Kelly's Summer Reading
• Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B – Raspberry Pi — The new Raspberry Pi 4 computer is out.
• Cartoon Guide to Statistics 1, Larry Gonick, Woollcott Smith - Amazon.com
• About - Project Euler — Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.
• 4 Ways Your Student Can Avoid the “Summer Slide” — Hearing the final school bell for the year can bring feelings of joy, relief, and...dread? Many students, their parents, and their future teachers know the reality of the so-called “Summer Slide.”
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• TinyPICO | Crowd Supply — One more remarkable ESP32 board.
• PBL Events | PBLWorks — Learn more about PBL, and connect with a worldwide network of educators. We offer events in different locations throughout the year, delivering professional learning opportunities for individuals and small teams.
• ISTE - EdTech Conference 2019 | Philadelphia, June 23-26
• Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Thomas Angelo, Stephanie McGuire: 9781620363164: Amazon.com: Gateway — What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.
• Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners: Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison: 8601419898244: Amazon.com: Gateway — Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps, as well as the documentation of student thinking.