Over the last few years, we have had to teach within online, blended, and fully in-person classroom settings. While great strides have been made leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, it demonstrated how the future for K-20 education is within classroom settings that no longer are bound to only a physical classroom space. We’ve learnedContinueContinue reading “Instruction Without Boundaries: Let’s Create Engaging and Effective Classrooms Within Any Setting to Enhance Student Learning”
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MOTE – A Revolutionary Audio Recording Tool for Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets
By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. Introduction to MOTE – A Game-Changing Audio Recording Tool for Google Docs, Slides, andContinueContinue reading “MOTE – A Revolutionary Audio Recording Tool for Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets”
Using Flipgrid to Get to Know Your Students: Building Community and Language Skills
By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. Flipgrid Basics and Background Flipgrid is an interactive audio and video recording platform whereContinueContinue reading “Using Flipgrid to Get to Know Your Students: Building Community and Language Skills”
Navigating Education – The Newsletter: ISSUE 4 – August 2nd, 2021
I Cannot Believe It’s August 2021! I cannot believe we are moving into August of 2021. More than half of the year is already over. It’s hard to imagine that we are also starting a new school year. Within this issue, I am providing a number of resources ranging from books, blogs, podcasts, and educationalContinueContinue reading “Navigating Education – The Newsletter: ISSUE 4 – August 2nd, 2021”
Teacher Feedback and Coaching during the Toggled Term: Edtech Tools to Help Teachers and School Leaders Observe Online & Blended Learning Classrooms
By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. Teacher feedback, self-efficacy, and collective self-efficacy is critical towards creating and refining 21st-century learningContinueContinue reading “Teacher Feedback and Coaching during the Toggled Term: Edtech Tools to Help Teachers and School Leaders Observe Online & Blended Learning Classrooms”
Navigating the Toggled Term: Looking at the Present and Thinking Forward into the Future for K-12 Education
By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. As the first few months of school has passed in the 2020-2021 school year,ContinueContinue reading “Navigating the Toggled Term: Looking at the Present and Thinking Forward into the Future for K-12 Education”
Podcast Interview: MindShare Learning Report – Reopening Schools and “Navigating the Toggled Term.”
Today, I was interviewed on the MindShare Learning Report Podcast on reopening schools and my new book “Navigating the Toggled Term.” Robert, the host of the show, provided some engaging questions related to engaging students in online and blended learning settings and safely reopening schools for blended learning. In addition, we discussed the online instructionalContinueContinue reading “Podcast Interview: MindShare Learning Report – Reopening Schools and “Navigating the Toggled Term.””
Edtech Equity & Engagement Blog Series: Part 1 of 4 – Intro
Throughout the year as we experience distance and blended learning settings, we will be using educational technology to build our online instructional infrastructure. This will allow teachers to teach in both of these settings interchangeably and continuously as we have to navigate the instructional challenges due to the pandemic. This will be a challenge, butContinueContinue reading “Edtech Equity & Engagement Blog Series: Part 1 of 4 – Intro”
Using Data to Make Data-Driven Instructional Decisions: Part 3 of 4 – Using Statistics to Transform Data into Knowledge
Welcome to Part 3 of 4 of the Using Data to Make Data-Driven Instructional Decisions Blog Series! Today, in Part 3, we are going to focus on using statistics to transform our data into knowledge. Statistical analysis on a data set allows educators to essentially mine information from the data. What this does is provideContinueContinue reading “Using Data to Make Data-Driven Instructional Decisions: Part 3 of 4 – Using Statistics to Transform Data into Knowledge”
The Power of Student Feedback: How to Collect Student Feedback at the End of the Year
By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. As the year comes to an end, it is a time for your students reflect on theirContinueContinue reading “The Power of Student Feedback: How to Collect Student Feedback at the End of the Year”
Motivating Students During the Final Weeks of Distance Learning
As we approach the final weeks of the school year, there may be days when we have to focus our efforts in motivating our students to finish out the year. This is evermore true during the final weeks of this school year as we complete our first dose of full time distance learning. We wantContinueContinue reading “Motivating Students During the Final Weeks of Distance Learning”
Social Emotional Learning Utilizing Pear Deck
S By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. Every day for live synchronous sessions, I want to check in with myContinueContinue reading “Social Emotional Learning Utilizing Pear Deck”
Teaching High School Math Using Google Classroom and Seesaw – How we Transitioned to a 100% Paperless Math Class
Transitioning from co-teaching freshmen math face to face to co-teaching the same class virtually caused my co-teacher and me to completely redesign our class. Much of our thought process was geared towards trying to emulate our original class procedures, instructional pedagogy, and supports as much as we could to provide to our general education and Special Education students in our class. We also wanted to develop an online class design that would provide an equitable approach so all of our students can access the content at their own time and pace in addition to providing access to both co-teachers for one on one support. Thus, my goal here is to provide you with insight as to how we transitioned our face to face course to a fully online math course. I am going to provide you with our thought processes, the edtech tools we used, and how we decided to deliver content to our students. Specifically, I am going to focus much of the conversation on using two separate learning management systems, Google Classroom and Seesaw, to provide the most equitable platform in tandem for our students to access the content and to receive quality instruction and feedback from us.
EdTech Tools to Get You Started With Your Online Teaching! Start Now!
As classrooms in K-12 schools and university’s move online, there a many Edtech tools available to use. My district is beginning to implement online learning this week so I wanted to share some of the Edtech tools I have some expertise in teaching at the secondary level in English, Social Sciences, and Math. Here isContinueContinue reading “EdTech Tools to Get You Started With Your Online Teaching! Start Now!”
Differentiated Instruction: Online Instruction for Special Education and English Language Learners
By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navigating Education – The Podcast. ransitioning directly to online education is a huge undertaking and transition. Once our classroom is built online,ContinueContinue reading “Differentiated Instruction: Online Instruction for Special Education and English Language Learners”
Navigating the Present and Future of Education 