Bridget Farrell

Instructional Coach, Elementary Educator, Teacher Leader, Girls on the Run Coach; Master of Education from Rockhurst University

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How to Align Your LMS With the Science of Learning https://t.co/8lhOnrlBzl
This article is going to be super helpful as we start learning with @CanvasLMS this year! It includes some amazing tips and considerations.

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We celebrated a class full of authors in @dirks_amanda’s room today! Students have been writing narrative stories and got to read their completed books to their classmates and families! 💗📖 #readersarewriters #proudteachermoments @CrestviewSMSD

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Thanks to Mrs. Podrebarac for asking me to visit PreK this week to do an #HourofCode2019 with them! We had a blast using @PlayOsmo and @kodable to explore different ways to code.

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Way to go, Cougars!!!!

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Crestview students collected almost 1,000 books for JCCB! The joy of reading shared right here in our community, Student Council students did a great job leading this service project! 👏 @theSMSD , @CrestviewSMSD

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Thanks to Mrs.Matlock for letting me come in to help with a Breakout box this morning! 4th graders at @CrestviewSMSD used critical thinking and collaboration skills to break out! Way to go, Cougars!!! @breakoutEDU

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Love how this shows super clearly what kinds of activities we might be doing when we address each of the 4 questions! @1BDerr @belindafro @ValRod82 @mackeywhackey @RosalieAWhitney @CrestviewSMSD

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This figure shows the pathway tasks associated with each of the critical questions of a PLC. These tasks reflect the fundamentals of the PLC process. https://t.co/CvKrBSk8Qa

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“Putting good practice into a bad environment renders good practice dead on arrival.” —Anthony Muhammad #culturalchange #atPLC

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"We have to stop thinking about assessments as for us (teachers)... We have to think about assessments as the ability to start that conversation and begin the reflection process for the kids." —Troy Gobble #effectivefeedback #atPLC

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"Your best job-embedded professional development is what you find in your own data." —Maria Nielsen #atPLC #realcollaboration Learning with a team is always better!

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“Your assessments are not worth the paper they’re written on if you don’t do something with it regarding student learning.” —Maria Nielsen on Common Formative Assessments #atPLC #ilovecommonformatives

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“We like being nice more than we like being effective.” — Anthony Muhammad on crucial conversations #atPLC

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"Once we know better, we have the responsibility to do better." — Rick DuFour. We know better now. #atPLC

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"Good is the enemy of great. If you already think you're good enough, is every kid in your school making it right now? How many kids are allowed to fail and it's good enough?" -Mike Mattos #atPLC

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"We learn so that they learn. When was the last time you considered how you are learning in your collaborative team meeting?" —Troy Gobble #atPLC

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Building self-efficacy in students: 1. have them track and study their progress; 2. give effective verbal feedback; 3. provide examples of people who have used a growth mindset to learn/overcome. The effect size for self-efficacy in students is .92 (Hattie, 2017) #PLCAtWork

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"The education profession will not mature as a profession until professional dialogue focuses on evidence of student learning rather than opinions." —Hattie, Visible Learning (2009) pp. 252, 259 #PLCAtWork #studentevidence

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Parents and families learning to code from their kids! Fourth graders in a STEM enrichment group wrote “challenge cards” for Dash robots @WonderWorkshop and then had their families follow their steps to complete the challenge! #kidswhocode @CrestviewSMSD

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HUGE thank you to @jonathanferrell for teaching us all about 3D printing this afternoon! Get ready, @CrestviewSMSD Cougars for some awesome possibilities!!!

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I’ve had a blast coding with @mrscolesroom and her students the past two days! 4th graders learned how to create and use variables to set up a game that used x tilt values to catch and count falling aliens!!! #PLTW #kidswhocode @CrestviewSMSD

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19-question survey to help you assess where you’re at on your PLC journey and identify potential next steps to help grow and sustain your PLC process: https://t.co/ePDQj0ofHY #atPLC #edchat #edleadership