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Flipping the Classroom with Nearpod: 9 Steps to Success

September 17, 2019 Summer Gunn

Here are the steps to take to use Nearpod as a tool to facilitate implementation of the key elements of…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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Pod Squad Launch at the School District of Lancaster

September 12, 2019 The Nearpod Team

Modernizing and enabling creative digital learning has kept a lot of school district administrators up at night. School District of…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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Using Document Based Questions with Nearpod

September 3, 2019 Quinae Jackson

Inquiry is one of the greatest forms of engagement. Find out about document based question & how you can use…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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How Nearpod Makes Distance Learning Easy

August 9, 2019 Elizabeth Ferrari

Students’ presence in the classroom may sometimes be uncertain. PioNear Elizabeth tells us how she uses Nearpod for distance learning.

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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20 Tips for First Year Teachers from Veteran Teachers

July 25, 2019 The Nearpod Team

We spoke to 20 teachers on what advice they would give first year teachers. The answers poured in from all…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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How Nearpod Saved my Sanity as an ESL Teacher

April 12, 2019 Melissa Sienko

Discover how Nearpod saved an ESL teacher by increasing student engagement, using the Lesson Library, organizing data, & leveraging blended…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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Check all 4C’s with Nearpod’s Collaborate!

March 13, 2019 Angie Bakke

Collaborate! allows students to interact with instruction and demonstrate the 4Cs (collaboration, communication, creation, and critical thinking) in one platform.

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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5 Ways to support Newcomer Language Acquisition with Technology

February 20, 2019 Melissa Sienko

Celebrate newcomers’ diverse life experiences to make them feel at home. Use these resources to support grade-level language acquisition and…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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Creating Equitable Classrooms: 7 Steps Towards Equity

February 8, 2019 Katie Micallef

The first step towards equity is creating the environment for which it lives in and in this case, it’s your…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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Teaching Black History in February… and Every Month, Afterwards.

January 28, 2019 Katie Micallef

As we enter February, highlight Black History Month and have those conversations. But my challenge for you is; as February…

Katie Micallef
Katie is a Personalized Learning Leader in Volusia County Schools. She helps teachers incorporate educational technology into their curriculum. She believes that students deserve an instructional practice that resonates with their daily lives, and that includes the utilization of technology. She is on a mission to promote the endless benefits that edtech can have on 21st century instructional practices.

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