10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher
Jam-packed with cool classrooms, cool apps, and cool teaching ideas, full-time teacher and award-winning edtech influencer, Vicki Davis, who blogs as the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, loves to interview awesome teachers and educators from around the world on this teacher podcast. Her goal is to interview the most in-classroom teachers on one helpful teacher podcast. This encouraging show will give you quick ideas you can use right away. You can follow Vicki @coolcatteacher on all social media and join the conversation.
Latest episodes
Jan 25, 2019 • 10min
5 Sure Fire Ways to Create Remarkable Graphics
Tony Vincent is a pro at creating graphics. His blog and work is full of amazing graphics. Today, he teaches us five sure-fire ways to create remarkable graphics. We can teach our students or use them to promote the causes we care about. www.coolcatteacher.com/e425
Jan 24, 2019 • 14min
How Should We Evaluate Leaders?
Dr. Toby Travis, Headmaster and leadership consultant, talks about the effective methods of evaluating school leaders, focusing on the research. www.coolcatteacher.com/e424
Jan 23, 2019 • 11min
No 1:1 devices? You can be an awesome tech using school anyway!
Gail Charnick and her teachers are using a variety of technologies and showing that you don't have to be 1 to 1 to be leading edge. www.coolcatteacher.com/e423
Jan 22, 2019 • 8min
Virtual Valentines & 2 other cool, fun collaborative ideas for teachers
Dyane Smokorowski talks about Virtual Valentines, a Doodle project, and a fun trip with teachers to the San Diego Zoo this summer. Dive in! www.coolcatteacher.com/e421 Get the weekly newsletter with free resources and ideas for your classroom from the Cool Cat Teacher at www.coolcatteacher.com/newsletter.
Jan 21, 2019 • 11min
How to Motivate Teachers to Change
Motivating change in ourselves and others can be challenging but it can be done. Join Joy Kirr, 7th grade ELA Teacher, with surprising insight on why teachers really change! www.coolcatteacher.com/e421 Get Vicki Davis' weekly newsletter for teachers with freebies, ideas, and more at www.coolcatteacher.com/newsletter.
Jan 18, 2019 • 12min
5 Ways to Connect Young Adults with Reading
Librarian Karen Scott challenges us with some non-traditional practices to get kids interested in reading including organizing her library by genre and using social media and graphics to inspire a love of reading. www.coolcatteacher.com/e420 Advancement Courses has expertly-crafted classroom courses. Use the code COOL20 to get 20% off your course at www.advancementcourses.com/coolcat .
Jan 17, 2019 • 17min
How We Disenfranchise Students of Color
Self-examination and reflection are important parts of improving our teaching practice. With this in mind, Josh Parker encourages us to reflect upon our practice as a teacher with working with a diverse population of students. This show is designed to make us think and open our eyes to mistakes we might be making without realizing it. So, for Thought Leader Thursday, today, we'd like to challenge you to consider if you have areas to improve in your classroom relating to students of a different ethnic background from your own. www.coolcatteacher.com/e419 Advancement Courses has expertly-crafted classroom courses. Use the code COOL20 to get 20% off your course at www.advancementcourses.com/coolcat.
Jan 16, 2019 • 9min
3 Awesome Minutes: Question Formulation Techniques (QFT)'s
Chris Fancher talks about how to use question formulation techniques (QFT)'s in your classroom by sharing what he does in his. This simple 3 minutes can change your classroom. www.coolcatteacher.com/e418 Advancement Courses has expertly-crafted classroom courses. Use the code COOL20 to get 20% off your course at www.advancementcourses.com/coolcat.
Jan 15, 2019 • 13min
Preservice Teachers in a Virtual Co-Op Program
Dr. Sam Fecich runs a virtual co-op program for her preservice teachers. This program not only helps her preservice teachers learn while doing authentic work, but it helps teachers get help for their classrooms. What a great idea! www.coolcatteacher.com/e417 Advancement Courses has expertly-crafted classroom courses. Use the code COOL20 to get 20% off your course at www.advancementcourses.com/coolcat.
Jan 14, 2019 • 13min
Telling our Student's Stories
Students have stories to tell. As educators, we can impact our profession by sharing the stories of student successes (and perhaps struggles.) In today's episode, Jamie Ewing talks about his new YouTube channel and why he finds sharing student stories to be a powerful way to help the profession of teaching. www.coolcatteacher.com/e416 Advancement Courses has expertly-crafted classroom courses. Use the code COOL20 to get 20% off your course at www.advancementcourses.com/coolcat.
