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"The Best Investment You Can Make Is In Yourself"
-WARREN BUFFET"

We as parents play a major role in our child's life, we do face complications. Yet we can overcome them by switching to other practices.

Some of the "Brilliant" ideas! are to modify.
1. Check List
a. daily
b. weekly
2. New habit rules
a. No phones at the dinner table
b. Develop a new hobby instead of screen time.
c. Complete all the chores before screen time.
d. For stubborn kids set with one a time rule, do at least 1 school task before screen time or gaming.
e. Only half an hour of screen time is allowed.
f. Screen time only on weekends.
g. For toddlers instead of screen time let's dress- up, bake cookies, wash toys and bikes, fly a kite, let them paint your nails, and pick out a good storybook together.

3. Set remainders in the Alexa app
a. Picking and drop time for the kid
b. instead of screen time play soothing and calm music and stories.

4. Start your morning with
a. Positivity
b. Gratitude
c, Smiles, and Hugs

5. Plan a day/night prior
a. Uniform
b. Extra pair of clothes
c. Backpack, healthy snacks.

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The First Days of School!

Ideas and lessons for all teachers to build community, connect with kids, and launch into an unforgettable new school year.

The first days of school are an exciting and busy time for teachers and students. Students are excited about a new school year and teachers are busy organizing classrooms. After a summer of sun and relaxation, I always need to create a checklist of things to do during the first weeks of school to set up a new classroom. My hope is that this book can be a guide and a resource for K-12 classroom teachers to get ideas for a new school year.

I organized ideas and resources in this book as strategies to introduce each application in the Google Drive to students. Introducing the applications and giving students time to play with the tools will prepare students for using the tools throughout the school year, build confidence with the tools for when they are later expected to use the tools to demonstrate understanding, and will build community in your classroom.

The idea to make this book was inspired by Harry & Rosemary Wong's book, The First Days of School. Their bookprovided me with so many ideas and resources over the years! I hope this mini book helps other teachers in the same way that their book helped me during the first days of school!

Connect with Google Classroom......................
Identity Slides with Google Slides....................
Community Circles.............................................
Create small groups...........................................
Instagram and Google Draw.............................
Explore the World with Google My Maps........
Set Goals with Flipgrid.......................................
Build in Time for Play.........................................
Celebrate Cognitive Diversity............................

Connect with Google Classroom

Google Classroom can be used in so many ways. Set up your classroom and share the code with students to join. Use classroom to share resources, collect student responses, and to guide discussions. How to set up a Google Classroom and add students HERE.

Host a video throw down! Invite students to find a video (no longer than 4 minutes long) that will make the class laugh, motivate the class to work hard, or inspire the class this year when needed. Show one video a day until all students have been able to show their video.

1. Add this question into your Google Classroom.
2. Show students how to filter video searches.
3. Collect videos in a YouTube Playlist for later use.

Get to know your students with forms!
Personalize a Google form with questions for your students. Share the form as an assignment in Google Classroom and get to know your students right away. Using a Google form is a helpful tool for this activity because students can rest assured that the contents of the responses that they share with you are confidentially shared. Change the questions on the form and connect with students all year long using personalized Google forms.

Create a shared music playlist:
Ask students about what kind of music they listen to. Teach them how to find song lyrics and to search for videos that are appropriate with searching specifics. Invite students to find one appropriate song to contribute to a class music playlist. Share THIS Google Doc with the class and give everyone editing rights. Collect their favorite music and create a class playlist to listen to all year long in the classroom.

Invite Guardians into Google Classroom: You are getting to know your students during the first weeks of school, but guardians will appreciate being able to see what is happening in your classroom too! Collect the Gmail address of the guardian. Check the box next to the student name in the "student" column, and invite their guardian. Guardians can see posted assignments and due dates. Have a student who needs extra support? This feature will keep the connection going strong between home and school.

Students gET TO KNOW eachother when they are given the opportunity to design a slide that describes them!

Thought Bubble

This lesson was inspired by @jheil65, the lead for the 7th Annual California EdTech Team Summit!

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Read this free ebook by Kelly Hilton. Find thousands of free educational ebooks for classroom use at read.bookcreator.com

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A shelf full of Growth mindset HyperDocs and videos

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A new twist on the traditional "What I did on my summer vacation" assignment.

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Software Engineer, Google Classroom

This back to school season, inspire creativity, and run at maximum efficiency with the latest features and tools from Google for Education. We're rolling out new features in Classroom and G Suite for Education, AR and VR on Chromebooks, Google Earth and Science Journal updates, and new trainings from the Teacher Center and Applied Digital Skills.

New tools in Classroom and G Suite

Google Classroom is getting its biggest refresh yet. We've added a Classwork page to help teachers and students stay more organized. With Classwork, teachers can easily group assignments into units or modules, and reorder work to match their class sequence. We're also introducing a new grading tool, which lets educators quickly toggle between student submissions when grading, and save commonly used feedback. The tool improves the grading workflow, so that educators have more time to spend personalizing feedback. Finally, we've made it easier to setup classes and manage information. Read more here, and check out the Back to School 2018 FAQs for full details.

In addition to using a Learning Management System (LMS), many schools use G Suite to collaborate. Until now, there hasn't been an easy way to integrate G Suite with many LMSs. That's why we introduced Course Kit in July, a free toolkit that allows instructors to use Google Docs and Drive to collect assignments, give faster and richer feedback to students, and share course materials within the LMS they're already using. It's built using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard so it's easy to set up and works with all LMSs that support LTI. If your institution uses G Suite for Education, you can get started by requesting access to the beta.

We heard from educators and students it can be challenging to format in Google Docs when writing and assigning papers. That's why we're sharing new Docs updates focused on margins and indentations to improve the overall writing experience, especially when making MLA style citations. Now, you can use hanging indents and set specific indentations using a dialog box. Be on the lookout for customizable header and footer margins, and a vertical ruler coming to Docs this fall.

Bring learning to life with Daydream, Google Earth, and Science Journal

Your student explorers can show and tell in 360-degree VR, because Tour Creator now allows photos taken on your own device with the free Cardboard Camera app (available on Android and iOS) to be added to tours. And coming soon, you'll also be able to add VR180 photos to tours which can be easily taken from any VR180 camera. Have curious students wanting to explore ancient ruins, swim in the Indian Ocean, and save the endangered elephants in Africa? Coming this fall, ARCore will run on the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 so students can experience Expeditions AR and other AR apps directly on their tablets.

Adventures continue with 30 newly released activities and lesson plans, in 8 languages from Google Earth. Students and teachers can explore Mars, the world's oceans and protected environments with NASA, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, The Ocean Agency, and the National Geographic Society.

Student scientists wanting to test hypotheses can use the Science Journal website, which has been updated with new content, including activities from the band OK Go in the OK Go Sandbox. Coming this winter, the new Google Drive integration will also allow students to conduct, document and access science experiments from any device running the free Science Journal app.

Innovative training with the Teacher Center and Applied Digital Skills

We heard that first time G Suite users and educators looking for a refresh found our #FirstDayofClassroom resources to be helpful, and now we're expanding to include our other products, starting with Google Forms. Our new trainings in the updated Teacher Center are curated video trainings made by educators, for educators, with actionable steps to get started with G Suite for Education. We want to hear from you as we add more trainings and products, so submit your favorite Google for Education tips here.

Based on one of the top requests from teachers last year, the free video-based curriculum Applied Digital Skills site now enables instructors to assign lessons through Classroom. Students can share in the excitement too, with the ability to track their classes, lessons and the last video they viewed in the new Student Dashboard.

Previously announced in June, at ISTE

We shared that the first tablet running the same reliable operating system as Chromebooks, the Acer Chromebook Tab 10, is now shipping, and also announced a new affordable, no charging or pairing required stylus by STAEDTLER which will soon be available. Educators will soon have the ability to create a Quiz in Google Forms from Classroom and enable locked mode for distraction free testing, only on managed Chromebooks. And for all of the admins out there, make sure to check out Device Off Hours and subscribe to our revamped release notes.

From all of us at Google for Education, welcome back to school. We can't wait to see what you accomplish during this upcoming school year. Be sure to follow along on Google for Education's Twitter and Facebook pages for more information and resources for you and your students.

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Your Google for Education Guide for Back to School

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A new twist on the traditional "What I did on my summer vacation" assignment.

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See for yourself what you can do with Pokemon Go!

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Teach your students HOW to learn using HyperDocs

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A new twist on the traditional "What I did on my summer vacation" assignment.

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A shelf full of Growth mindset HyperDocs and videos

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Software Engineer, Google Classroom

This back to school season, inspire creativity, and run at maximum efficiency with the latest features and tools from Google for Education. We're rolling out new features in Classroom and G Suite for Education, AR and VR on Chromebooks, Google Earth and Science Journal updates, and new trainings from the Teacher Center and Applied Digital Skills.

New tools in Classroom and G Suite

Google Classroom is getting its biggest refresh yet. We've added a Classwork page to help teachers and students stay more organized. With Classwork, teachers can easily group assignments into units or modules, and reorder work to match their class sequence. We're also introducing a new grading tool, which lets educators quickly toggle between student submissions when grading, and save commonly used feedback. The tool improves the grading workflow, so that educators have more time to spend personalizing feedback. Finally, we've made it easier to setup classes and manage information. Read more here, and check out the Back to School 2018 FAQs for full details.

In addition to using a Learning Management System (LMS), many schools use G Suite to collaborate. Until now, there hasn't been an easy way to integrate G Suite with many LMSs. That's why we introduced Course Kit in July, a free toolkit that allows instructors to use Google Docs and Drive to collect assignments, give faster and richer feedback to students, and share course materials within the LMS they're already using. It's built using the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard so it's easy to set up and works with all LMSs that support LTI. If your institution uses G Suite for Education, you can get started by requesting access to the beta.

We heard from educators and students it can be challenging to format in Google Docs when writing and assigning papers. That's why we're sharing new Docs updates focused on margins and indentations to improve the overall writing experience, especially when making MLA style citations. Now, you can use hanging indents and set specific indentations using a dialog box. Be on the lookout for customizable header and footer margins, and a vertical ruler coming to Docs this fall.

Bring learning to life with Daydream, Google Earth, and Science Journal

Your student explorers can show and tell in 360-degree VR, because Tour Creator now allows photos taken on your own device with the free Cardboard Camera app (available on Android and iOS) to be added to tours. And coming soon, you'll also be able to add VR180 photos to tours which can be easily taken from any VR180 camera. Have curious students wanting to explore ancient ruins, swim in the Indian Ocean, and save the endangered elephants in Africa? Coming this fall, ARCore will run on the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 so students can experience Expeditions AR and other AR apps directly on their tablets.

Adventures continue with 30 newly released activities and lesson plans, in 8 languages from Google Earth. Students and teachers can explore Mars, the world's oceans and protected environments with NASA, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, The Ocean Agency, and the National Geographic Society.

Student scientists wanting to test hypotheses can use the Science Journal website, which has been updated with new content, including activities from the band OK Go in the OK Go Sandbox. Coming this winter, the new Google Drive integration will also allow students to conduct, document and access science experiments from any device running the free Science Journal app.

Innovative training with the Teacher Center and Applied Digital Skills

We heard that first time G Suite users and educators looking for a refresh found our #FirstDayofClassroom resources to be helpful, and now we're expanding to include our other products, starting with Google Forms. Our new trainings in the updated Teacher Center are curated video trainings made by educators, for educators, with actionable steps to get started with G Suite for Education. We want to hear from you as we add more trainings and products, so submit your favorite Google for Education tips here.

Based on one of the top requests from teachers last year, the free video-based curriculum Applied Digital Skills site now enables instructors to assign lessons through Classroom. Students can share in the excitement too, with the ability to track their classes, lessons and the last video they viewed in the new Student Dashboard.

Previously announced in June, at ISTE

We shared that the first tablet running the same reliable operating system as Chromebooks, the Acer Chromebook Tab 10, is now shipping, and also announced a new affordable, no charging or pairing required stylus by STAEDTLER which will soon be available. Educators will soon have the ability to create a Quiz in Google Forms from Classroom and enable locked mode for distraction free testing, only on managed Chromebooks. And for all of the admins out there, make sure to check out Device Off Hours and subscribe to our revamped release notes.

From all of us at Google for Education, welcome back to school. We can't wait to see what you accomplish during this upcoming school year. Be sure to follow along on Google for Education's Twitter and Facebook pages for more information and resources for you and your students.

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Your Google for Education Guide for Back to School

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The First Days of School!

Ideas and lessons for all teachers to build community, connect with kids, and launch into an unforgettable new school year.

The first days of school are an exciting and busy time for teachers and students. Students are excited about a new school year and teachers are busy organizing classrooms. After a summer of sun and relaxation, I always need to create a checklist of things to do during the first weeks of school to set up a new classroom. My hope is that this book can be a guide and a resource for K-12 classroom teachers to get ideas for a new school year.

I organized ideas and resources in this book as strategies to introduce each application in the Google Drive to students. Introducing the applications and giving students time to play with the tools will prepare students for using the tools throughout the school year, build confidence with the tools for when they are later expected to use the tools to demonstrate understanding, and will build community in your classroom.

The idea to make this book was inspired by Harry & Rosemary Wong's book, The First Days of School. Their bookprovided me with so many ideas and resources over the years! I hope this mini book helps other teachers in the same way that their book helped me during the first days of school!

Connect with Google Classroom......................
Identity Slides with Google Slides....................
Community Circles.............................................
Create small groups...........................................
Instagram and Google Draw.............................
Explore the World with Google My Maps........
Set Goals with Flipgrid.......................................
Build in Time for Play.........................................
Celebrate Cognitive Diversity............................

Connect with Google Classroom

Google Classroom can be used in so many ways. Set up your classroom and share the code with students to join. Use classroom to share resources, collect student responses, and to guide discussions. How to set up a Google Classroom and add students HERE.

Host a video throw down! Invite students to find a video (no longer than 4 minutes long) that will make the class laugh, motivate the class to work hard, or inspire the class this year when needed. Show one video a day until all students have been able to show their video.

1. Add this question into your Google Classroom.
2. Show students how to filter video searches.
3. Collect videos in a YouTube Playlist for later use.

Get to know your students with forms!
Personalize a Google form with questions for your students. Share the form as an assignment in Google Classroom and get to know your students right away. Using a Google form is a helpful tool for this activity because students can rest assured that the contents of the responses that they share with you are confidentially shared. Change the questions on the form and connect with students all year long using personalized Google forms.

Create a shared music playlist:
Ask students about what kind of music they listen to. Teach them how to find song lyrics and to search for videos that are appropriate with searching specifics. Invite students to find one appropriate song to contribute to a class music playlist. Share THIS Google Doc with the class and give everyone editing rights. Collect their favorite music and create a class playlist to listen to all year long in the classroom.

Invite Guardians into Google Classroom: You are getting to know your students during the first weeks of school, but guardians will appreciate being able to see what is happening in your classroom too! Collect the Gmail address of the guardian. Check the box next to the student name in the "student" column, and invite their guardian. Guardians can see posted assignments and due dates. Have a student who needs extra support? This feature will keep the connection going strong between home and school.

Students gET TO KNOW eachother when they are given the opportunity to design a slide that describes them!

Thought Bubble

This lesson was inspired by @jheil65, the lead for the 7th Annual California EdTech Team Summit!

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Read this free ebook by Kelly Hilton. Find thousands of free educational ebooks for classroom use at read.bookcreator.com

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Teach your students HOW to learn using HyperDocs

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Rio Olympics Multimedia Text Set.

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Back to School 2.0- 10 free lesson ideas to get your year off to a great start.

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How to Pay Back Your Student Loan as an International Student : Jobs and Scholarship

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How to Pay Back Your Student Loan as an International Student-Student loan debt is a growing problem for students. No matter how you choose to pay back your loans, there ...

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"What are your hopes and dreams..."

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A middle school BTS slide HyperDoc

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Beginning of year mystery HyperDoc intro for K-5 kids into Thinking Like a Historian.

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Thinking Like a Historian: Case of the Missing Ball

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MLK gave his famous speech August 28, 1963. Share this lesson to learn more.

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Teach your students HOW to learn using HyperDocs

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Five Things You Want Your Teacher to Know About You HyperDoc

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A new twist on the traditional "What I did on my summer vacation" assignment.

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What Kind of learner are you?

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A HyperDoc to get students using Google Apps

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A shelf full of HyperDocs created for Diversity Day.

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A collection of HyperDocs about Digital Literacy

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5 HyperDocs to Get Fit in a Digital World

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Take a year of spreading kindness!

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Tutorials for creating parent contact lists, email groups, URL shorteners and more!

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Middle School inspiration

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See for yourself what you can do with Pokemon Go!

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What I learned this summer....a back to school HyperDoc

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Terri Hughes "Basic" HyperDoc Lesson Plan Narrative

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Learn how you work best in groups with this clever HyperDoc.

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Use this falculty PD HyperDoc to build community at your school site + more! Uses Adobe Spark 3 ways.

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An entire shelf full of PD HyperDocs to use with your faculty.

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Created for PUSD Professional Development Day August 10th, 2016

Select from the variety of resources and HyperDoc lessons on the shelves.

Click on an image to open, make a copy, edit and use as you wish.

Please contact Ken, Denise, or the Instructional Coaches with questions.

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