#CUEchat is both a weekly Twitter chat and an ongoing conversation across social media that connects CUE members, resources, and new ideas. Each week is powered by a unique voice.
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Ed Campos, @Bootstrapworld Program Manager and @cueinc Lead Learner. I'm gonna go with Will Smith's "SummerTime" which I started to like even better when I found out Rakim wrote it.
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Hey #CUEchat! I'm Denise from Tulare. I'm the EdTech Coordinator for Tulare Joint Union High School District. Let's flash back to Summer Nights' from the Grease Soundtrack. ☀️
Derrick Bright, 3rd Grade from SoCal/High Desert and a favorite Summer tune is Simple Man- by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Maybe not for summer, but it's good. #CUEchat
Hey #cuechat! I'm Laurie, an EdTech ToSA in Richmond, CA. I'm also #theoriginalDAB for the @EBCUE Board. My fave summer song is Will Smith's Summertime. Cuz WILL SMITH #WeAreCUE
A1: Super duper important to BUILD YOUR BASE! When times are tough, these are the people you will need to lean on (talking staff here). Plus, it's more fun that way... #cuechat#WeAreCUE
A1:first few days are critical. Students, Teachers, Admin are figuring out what kind of year it's going to be. Set the tone & culture from the start and make them excited about your class or about working at your school. Never get a 2nd chance to make a first impression #cuechat
A2: Characteristics include students actually happy to be there, students not afraid to take risks, school spirit is not artificially generated or bribed. #cuechat
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Mutual respect and trust, active engagement and learning, social and academic growth, the "buzz" of learning, collaboration to mutual goals, problem-solving rather than blaming, mutual support, creativity, can do attitudes -- that's just a start....
A2: environment that supports risk taking and growth, colleagues and students that are willing to take and give constructive feedback, relationships built on mutual trust #CUEChat
A2: environment that supports risk taking and growth, colleagues and students that are willing to take and give constructive feedback, relationships built on mutual trust #CUEChat
A2: Camaraderie at a school site, trust amongst staff/admin, mutual respect between admin/teachers, empowering teacher leaders by allowing them to lead and innovate. Classroom: safe/fun environment conducive to the 4 Cs, being in a classroom as part of a sports team #cuechat
Q3: What are some ways that teachers can start the school year in order to promote a student-empowered and positive classroom culture? #cuechat#WeAreCUE
A3: Spend the first two weeks not covering content. Teach strategies, tech tools and team building before diving into content. The pacing guide is for the teacher, not teacher for the pacing guide. Coverng more material doesn't mean more learning. #IllGetOffMySoapbox#cuechat
Q3: What are some ways that teachers can start the school year in order to promote a student-empowered and positive classroom culture? #cuechat#WeAreCUE
A3- I started with AP Olympics inspired by @acdcleadership The first week we focused on culture, team building, and the 4 Cs, in a fun way. Students were able to practice soft skills while having fun and getting revved up to start the class. #CUEchat
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Be prepared, look over your class list if you already know students, be rested and alert, have your room read with some new welcoming aspects, have some ice-breakers ready,
@edcampOSjr#cuechat I try to use a lot of Team Building and ClassBuilding a la Kagan. Having fun together and learning about each other helps to establish that. Also, having Classroom jobs for everyone helps my students own the class.
A3b: First two weeks challenge: Get to know every student's name and something about them. Children from poverty value that relationship more than your content knowledge. #cuechat
Q3: What are some ways that teachers can start the school year in order to promote a student-empowered and positive classroom culture? #cuechat#WeAreCUE
A3: Do a lot of team building activities to make your classroom culture completely evident. Use flippity's random grouping to get your kids interacting with as many other kids as possible. @joboaler has some great "Inspirational Math" activities to start the year #cuechat
A3c: Get to know your students and colleagues through the lens of #TrueColors and learn four parts of everyone's personality, their strengths and when to draw upon different parts of personality. #cuechat
A3b: First two weeks challenge: Get to know every student's name and something about them. Children from poverty value that relationship more than your content knowledge. #cuechat
A4: Get out of the office and get into classrooms. Put money in the bank with students for times when you may need to tax someone. Smile often and show respect to everyone. Have a servant attitude! #WeAreCUE#CUEAffiliates#CUEchat
#cuechat#weareCUE A4- Showing that he trusts the staff to do their jobs as professionals. Being able to be silly with the staff and students. Learning the students' names (as best as they can)
A4- Just like with Ts, it's important for Admin to build that culture. Our Mgmt Team session tomorrow has a surfing theme, we are doing a Breakout, and a #selfie scavenger hunt to get things started! In my new teacher training, we are having a Super hero theme. #havefun#cuechat
A4: Get into classrooms and support teachers with a #GeniusHour type of support plan. What are some passion projects you want for your class this year? How do we make that happen? attending PD? Sharing back with staff? Keep Staff meetings brief and honor teachers time #cuechat
walk the walk, LISTEN, publicly recognize good efforts and results, honor your colleagues, facilitate the school community (all ages) to help them do their job -- with joy #cuechat
A5: Post student work and cool stuff happening in your class on social media. Share the likes, retweets, comments and feedback with them. Give shoutouts on the regular. #cuechat
A4: Site admin can encourage collaboration and openness by setting up a Pineapple Chart (I haven't seen it done yet, but would love to!) https://t.co/9ZsNq0uvHz#WeAreCUE#cuechat
#CUEchat. #WeAreCUE I like to use music for the background, and use it while practicing procedures- makes it fun. GoNoodle is a fun tool to get Ss up and dancing and moving.
A5: posting what kids are doing, they all love to be featured somewhere, I'm working on a student created podcast about Science topics, give the kids a voice #CUEChat
In adolescent development, you learn how kids feel like they're always on stage. Put that to work. Kids tend to try harder when they know people are watching. #cuechat
A5: posting what kids are doing, they all love to be featured somewhere, I'm working on a student created podcast about Science topics, give the kids a voice #CUEChat
A4: Site admin can encourage collaboration and openness by setting up a Pineapple Chart (I haven't seen it done yet, but would love to!) https://t.co/9ZsNq0uvHz#WeAreCUE#cuechat
We set one up at our site last year and it has slowly grown. Both a digital chart (doc) shared on staff Google Classroom and whiteboard in the staff lounge. #WeAreCUE#CUEchat
A4: Site admin can encourage collaboration and openness by setting up a Pineapple Chart (I haven't seen it done yet, but would love to!) https://t.co/9ZsNq0uvHz#WeAreCUE#cuechat
A5:Use @flippitynet random grouping as much as possible. Establish they'll work with diff people every day, all day. @Flipgrid@RemindHQ@quizizz@PearDeck with anonymous feature to learn in safe space. @Spotify playlist for music cues cuz everything's better w/ music! #cuechat
.@edcampOSjr I was thinking about doing a student survey at the beginning of the year and getting a #walkupsong for every S! Need to make it seamless #CUEchat#WeAreCUE
A5:Use @flippitynet random grouping as much as possible. Establish they'll work with diff people every day, all day. @Flipgrid@RemindHQ@quizizz@PearDeck with anonymous feature to learn in safe space. @Spotify playlist for music cues cuz everything's better w/ music! #cuechat
A6: Intentionally schedule time to meet with and receive feedback from other staff and students in the first few weeks of school in order to make adjustments to my actions and efforts. #CUEchat#WeAreCUE#CUEAffiliates
YES! This summer I did that with an adult math program I taught and it was EPIC. I had it all in one playlist so then I could actually use it as a Random Student Selector by using the shuffle feature on @spotify! #cuechat
.@edcampOSjr I was thinking about doing a student survey at the beginning of the year and getting a #walkupsong for every S! Need to make it seamless #CUEchat#WeAreCUE
A5:Use @flippitynet random grouping as much as possible. Establish they'll work with diff people every day, all day. @Flipgrid@RemindHQ@quizizz@PearDeck with anonymous feature to learn in safe space. @Spotify playlist for music cues cuz everything's better w/ music! #cuechat
#WeAreCUE#CUEchat I liked the idea of using the Frayer-a-Student. I want to try the Breakout, but may have to work up to it. :-) Having more fun with the kids, even with (or especially) the difficult ones. So many good ideas tonight..I want to try them all. ;-)
YES! This summer I did that with an adult math program I taught and it was EPIC. I had it all in one playlist so then I could actually use it as a Random Student Selector by using the shuffle feature on @spotify! #cuechat
.@edcampOSjr I was thinking about doing a student survey at the beginning of the year and getting a #walkupsong for every S! Need to make it seamless #CUEchat#WeAreCUE
A5:Use @flippitynet random grouping as much as possible. Establish they'll work with diff people every day, all day. @Flipgrid@RemindHQ@quizizz@PearDeck with anonymous feature to learn in safe space. @Spotify playlist for music cues cuz everything's better w/ music! #cuechat
Thank you all for joining us for a lively #cuechat on Smart Start! Join us next week at 7pm and best of luck as you all begin your school years in a few weeks! #WeAreCUE
