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How to Escape Chaos with a TQZ
Experienced educator and Hack Learning creator Mark Barnes explains three easy ways to create your own TQZ, or Teacher Quiet Zone, and escape the chaos of your hectic work day. Based on a concept from the bestselling...
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5 Quick Tips for Becoming a Lead Learner
In the new Hack Learning Series book,Hacking Leadership: 10 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Learning That Teachers, Students, and Parents Love, Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis discuss how important it is for leaders to be...
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Hack Learning 101: Breaking Down the Walls
In another brief Hack Learning 101, Mark Barnes provides a quick tip for looking inside the lives of educators and schools, using Periscope live streaming video. Mark also explains how to break down the walls of...
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Hacking School Culture: Lead from the Middle
School district superintendent Joe Sanfelippo and professor emeritus John Bennett explain how old-school mandates that stifle teacher autonomy can destroy school and work place culture. Hack Learning creator Mark...
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Hack Learning 101: Genius Hour for Passion Projects
Nashville teacher Mike Stein shares the power of Genius Hour with Hack Learning host Mark Barnes, who passes along some quick tips for starting your own Genius Hour. Learn how to inspire students to pursue their...
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Hacking the End of the School Year
Mark Barnes shares 10 teaching strategies for amazing leanring in May -- a time when many teachers and learners shut down for the summer. Mark highlights some of the best ways to engage learners until the end of the...
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Hacking Report Cards: Successful Student Self-Grading
As long as report cards exist, teachers must supply a number or letter grade at the end of a grading period. For teachers who operate no-grades classrooms, based on conversation about learning and ongoing narrative...
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Hack Learning 101: Twitter Hashtags
In this 101 session, Mark Barnes explains the power of Twitter hashtags for creating your own tribe of like-minded teachers and learners. Mark, whose tweets reach more than 3 million newsfeeds monthly, explains how...
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Hacking the Podcast: Produce Yours in Minutes
Education hacker, Mark Barnes, never envisioned himself as a podcaster, believing that producing a podcast would be far too time-consuming and very difficult. After producing twenty-eight episodes for the Hack...
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Hacking EdTech: Making Sense of So Many Tools
With so many websites and mobile applications available and more cropping up daily, teachers sometimes struggle to find the right tool to engage learners. Longtime educator, author and Cult of Pedagogy publisher,...
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Teach One Lesson
Hack Learning creator Mark Barnes shared the hashtag #TeachOneLesson on Twitter, and something amazing happened. If you had the power to reach every child in the world with one brief, simple lesson what would it be?...
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Hacking the Message
One classroom sign, shared on social media, shocked many teachers and parents, while inspiring others to cheer. The sign's message? "You cannot do extra credit to bring up your grade." This sign and the uproar it...
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