10 Minute Teacher Podcast

Tom Rademacher, author of It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and slightly unprofessional) Book About Teaching, shares why teachers should tell their story. (And how they can do it without losing their job.) www.coolcatteacher.com/e179 SPONSOR: GradeCam can save you time! Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Instantly scan and score with any mobile, desktop or document camera. Sign up for a 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher.

Superintendent Randy Ziegenfuss talks about secrets of transformational district leadership www.coolcatteacher.com/e178 SPONSOR: GradeCam can save you time! Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Instantly scan and score with any mobile, desktop or document camera. Automatically transfer grades into any digital gradebook. Find more time for teaching and living. Sign up for a 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher.

Vickie Morgado from Canada has her third graders connecting with the world! Learn about global Kahoots, how she tweets with her class and more. www.coolcatteacher.com/e177 SPONSOR: GradeCam can save you time! Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Automatically transfer grades into any digital gradebook. Find more time for teaching and living. Sign up for a 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher.

Get inspired to include every child as fourth grade teacher, Kelly Malloy, shares us how she focuses on children. www.coolcatteacher.com/e176 SPONSOR: GradeCam can save you time! Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Instantly scan and score with any mobile, desktop or document camera. Automatically transfer grades into any digital gradebook. Find more time for teaching and living. Sign up for a 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher.

Dr. Rebecca Klemm @numbersalive shares how to help numbers come alive for all ages. www.coolcatteacher.com/e175 GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and handwritten numeric answers that can be read and scored by Aita - Gradecam's Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant. Sign up for your 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher

Barbara Bray talks about personalizing learning in the classroom. She teaches us strategies and helps us think about how to make our classrooms better. www.coolcatteacher.com/e174 GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answers that can be read and scored by Aita - Gradecam's Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant. Sign up for your 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher

Sarah Beeghley @the-geeky_girl has been called by a US Senator to tell her story as part of anti-bullying legislation. Hear her story and advice to teachers. www.coolcatteacher.com/e173 GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answers that can be read and scored by Aita - Gradecam's Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant. Sign up for your 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher

Joanna Pace is an elementary teacher and Matt is a songwriter from Las Vegas. Today they talk about how to select good videos on YouTube for K-6 students. www.coolcatteacher.com/e172 GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answers that can be read and scored by Aita - Gradecam's Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant. Sign up for your 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher

Dr. Amy Fast, author of It's the Mission, Not the Mandates, talks about how to regain the purpose of education in schools. www.coolcatteacher.com/e171 GradeCam lets you create assessments with formats including multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and even handwritten numeric answers that can be read and scored by Aita - Gradecam's Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant. Sign up for your 60-day free trial at gradecam.com/coolcatteacher

Dr. Felicia Durden shares methods behind having a powerful morning meeting in special education classrooms. From routine to celebrations, we talk about how to start the day well in special education classrooms. www.coolcatteacher.com/e170 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. www.texthelp.com/wriq

Anne Collier helps us understand the statistics on bullying and cyberbullying. We talk about targets, those who bully and how to respond when helping those embroiled in this situation. www.coolcatteacher.com/e169 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

Lee Ann Yonker helped start the #MiniGoogleMasters movement in her school in K-3rd grade, demonstrating littles can be tech-savvy too! Having moved to 5th grade, Mrs. Yonker is continuing her tech encouragement with the #MakingGoogleMasters. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. www.texthelp.com/wriq

Special ed teacher Melissa Mann shares six of her favorite edtech tools for the special education classroom. www.coolcatteacher.com/e167 Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. You can also use rubrics and WriQ pulls everything into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. www.texthelp.com/wriq

Rushton Hurley, author of Making Your Teaching Something Special: 50 Ways to Become a Better Teacher, gives us ideas to build rapport, review for tests, and improve our teaching. www.coolcatteacher.com/e166 Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. To learn about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq

AJ Juliani, author of Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning talks about the empowerment of students. How teachers can be the “guide on the ride” and help students find their passions. We can do this! www.coolcatteacher.com/e165 Sponsor: Book Creator for Chrome As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version - go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now.