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Joined February 2015
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Small rural schools & communities must ask the question “What role do youth play in our community?” Why would anyone return if they have no purpose? #ruraledchat – at North Dakota, USA
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Welcome to #RuralEdChat tonight! We're talking about co-teaching tonight. Now if I was really clever, I would have set this up with a co-moderator. Let's just all co-Tweet together with the #RuralEdChat hashtag. Wheee!
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This week on #RuralEdChat: Let's talk classroom procedures for starting the year strong! What procedures do you have now? How do they help? When do you have to go "off script"? See you Tuesday at 8:30pm Eastern/5:30 Pacific!
Tonight on #RuralEdChat: what does it mean to be rural? How does our rural identity shape our learning environments? See you at 8:30 EST/5:30 pacific!
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Tonight on #RuralEdChat, let's talk observations: how do yours work? What feedback do you get? Who is present, and why? Join us at 8:30 eastern/ 5:30 pacific to discuss!
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Rural EdChat retweeted
Tonight on #RuralEdChat: educators of all stripes take on many responsibilities outside of the core job of teaching - let's talk about how to balance our out of classroom responsibilities against each other and in our lives. See you at 8:30 Eastern / 5:30 Pacific!
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Tonight on #RuralEdChat, let's continue a thread of our conversation from last time, and talk about our students as creators. How do we support and recognize student creativity? How do we build space for it into our classrooms? Let's discuss, tonight at 8:30 eastern!
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#ruraledchat - the Knight Foundation has a free MOOC starting next week for anyone interested in learning how to verify online source material. I've taken many Knight Foundation courses and they are marvelous. Pass info to librarians, media & tech people ow.ly/gYPs30o7UVJ
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This week on #RuralEdChat: let's talk about charter schools and their involvement in our Rural education communities. @robinhosemann will kick things off this Tuesday at 8:30pm Eastern / 5:30 pacific!
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Rural EdChat retweeted
Tonight on #RuralEdChat: let's talk about building community into our curriculum! Chat at 8:30pm EST/ 5:30 Pacific. See you soon!
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A5: I would love to hear about how other educators work with students who have behavior problems. As a secondary educator, that is one of my fears. Especially coming straight from college and having to set my expectations. #RuralEdChat
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Tonight on #RuralEdChat: the internet is as intertwined with learning as it is with life in general - but that doesn't mean our students or schools are equipped. Join us to chat about how access, and a lack of access, effects everything from homework to equity.
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This week on #RuralEdChat: what's a parent's place in education? How do we keep parents informed and involved, and what challenges do we face that are unique to rural communities? Come and join our chat tonight at 8:30 eastern / 5:30 pacific!
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Tonight on #RuralEdChat: with Valentine's Day being this week, let's spend some time talking about the roles of admiration and appreciation in our relationships with our peers, students, admins, and all the people in our EDU lives.
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Tonight in #RuralEdChat: It's cold. It's snowing. And school is getting cancelled. How do you handle cancellations? Adjust your lesson plans? Tweak assignments and due dates? Keep momentum up? I want to know! See you at 8:30 EST/5:30 PST
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This week on #RuralEdChat: how do we recruit educators in rural districts? How do we adjust when a vacancy can't be filled? This isn't just teachers either - we all need counselors, librarians, aides, and the list goes on and on! Let's chat, tonight at 8:30 eastern/5:30 pacific.
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Rural EdChat retweeted
This week in #RuralEdChat, we're talking about assessing our assessments - not only how we assess our students, but if the "how" matches the "why", and what to do when students struggle with assessments we thought were good. Tuesday, 1/8 @ 8:30pm EST/ 5:30 PST
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Tonight's #RuralEdChat will be continuing our conversation from a few weeks ago about mental health support in our schools and communities.
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Rural EdChat retweeted
Applications are now open for 8 ACEN #scholarships of $1500 to support #university students undertaking work integrated learning in #regional/remote Australia. #WIL @ruraledstudents @RuralKnowledesN @RuralEdChat @RuralEdNews #HigherEducation #university acen.edu.au/2018-student-sch…
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Rural EdChat retweeted
“Telling Rural People To Move Won’t Solve Poverty ... The answer, in other words, is more investment, not less”, like broadband expansion and creation on community schools, connecting education and health ow.ly/34vb30iCgEC
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