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So many connections can be made with Lego building blocks. This sample was written with business in mind, but raises some points that could transfer to working in education:

• https://www.finn.agency/stakeholder-management-single-stakeholder-view

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These strategies may help some of our teenagers overcome sleep deprivation:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dE25ANU0k

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Want to hear one of the best-kept secrets in the province? Watch the video below to see how you can access many teaching resources in the ATA Library, including gamification, aboriginal math games, using a 3D printer, online videos, and a vast selection of teaching guides. There are even kits you could sign out, such as robotics, cameras, or pen readers. Once you choose your book or kit, the library mails it to you and when you’ve finished with it, you put it into the postage-paid return envelope and drop it off at the post office. Couldn’t be easier. Explore the full selection of books or teachers’ guides, kits, and an online video collection here:

• https://youtu.be/1x87DxGKAjM
• http://library.teachers.ab.ca/Presto/home/home.aspx
• https://teachers-ab.libguides.com/c.php?g=709967&p=5058770
• https://teachers-ab.libguides.com/videos  

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You may have to watch this clip more than once to grasp his message, but here is some great advice for simplifying complexity:

• https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_simplifying_complexity?language=en

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Ever want to see what happens in the classrooms of other people? Check out a selection of videos here:

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=high+school+classroom+observation+videos&sp=mAEB

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The Collaborative Response Model we use for teamwork was created, based on other models, by Jigsaw Learning. They have many brand new resources that we haven’t reviewed together, so take a look at some of their resources, samples, and videos as you get ready for the next semester.

• https://www.jigsawlearning.ca/resources-and-samples 
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3U_RKp7yxQhckpKaQur7ow  

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Excusing the course language, this monologue raises some good questions. Not something you’d expect from an actor who was in Dumb and Dumber (unconfirmed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3qYHWRIZk

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If you ever wonder why we need teachers, here is an example. Although it may be very funny, it could actually be true that people think this way:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS2aEfbEi7s

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One of our goals for improvement relates to communication with parents. This web page includes many links to 5-minute videos on the topic of building parent-teacher partnerships, and links to blog articles, resources, and collaboration printable documents as well. If that is too much to consider right now, read the article on teacher wellness, also linked on the same page. See if you can find the quotable quote about the typical lizard-brain response that says “fight-flight-flock-freeze-appease” here:

• https://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-parent-teacher-partnerships