Blog | Angela Maiers, Speaker, Educator, Writer

Hacking the Future of Iowa’s Schools

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 1 Comment

Do you wish there was an app to collaborate with other teachers, communicate with parents, or engage your students?

In need of a new website for your school or class?

Have you identified a pressing need in your district that you think new software could address?

On the weekend of June 1 & 2, 100 top developers, brought together by Dwolla, will meet in Des Moines to help students, educators, and administrators build the software, app, or website that will address a challenge found in their school.

All you have to do is teach Dwolla about the challenge.

If selected, you’ll have 36-hours and a team of developers to create the kind of software, website, or app that will not only solve your challenge, but the challenge for potentially thousands of others.

Winning teams will split a minimum $4,000 prize!

This “hackathon” is free and requires no technical experience.

To learn more head to: http://hacktoschool.com/

Lt. Governor video: http://youtu.be/QPHcZImuP7Q

Blog post: http://blog.dwolla.com/hack-to-school

Website: www.hacktoschool.com

Registration: http://hacktoschool.eventbrite.com

Call for Challenges form: https://dwolla.wufoo.com/forms/r7p5w3/

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Game Changers: Taking Student Genius Global

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 2 Comments

Our Quest to leave no genius behind is coming to fruition! We have had an extraordinary flow of good news this week and will be announced many terrific partnerships and ventures in the next few weeks. On Friday, May 17, Choose2Matter was featured on a segment of “Tech Game Changers” on HuffPost Live. CLICK HERE for… Continue Reading

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Gimme Mo’ Leaders Like This!

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 1 Comment

Gimme Mo Team (with Twitter handles) Monique Coleman Cynthia Hass Brooke Sassman Opal Vadhan At the Student Voice Summit in NYC on April 13, I had the pleasure of speaking with the Gimme Mo’ team, a community that encourages young people to talk about issues they face. Youth of today are blessed to count… Continue Reading

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We Need YOU to Choose2Matter

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 0 Comments

For more than a year now, we’ve been working to launch Choose2Matter, a global movement whose mission is to challenge people to solve problems that break their hearts. Everything that we have accomplished to date has been done through perspiration and inspiration of a few committed volunteers. We’ve recently been blessed with offers… Continue Reading

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My Five Favorite Posts For Teacher Appreciation Week

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 0 Comments

After 14 years in the classroom, I became a consultant, speaker and author. I gave up my own classroom to dedicate my life to making it easier for other teachers to work effectively in theirs. At the root of everything I do is a profound respect and appreciation for teachers and the challenges they face…. Continue Reading

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The Science Behind “You Matter”

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 0 Comments

Mimi and Eunice, CC-BY-SA Nina Paley Near the beginning of my “You Matter” presentation, I say, “This is not an ego thing – it’s a DNA thing. Human beings were created for significance, and the most dangerous feeling they can have is the feeling that they don’t matter.” What did I mean? Simply that the need to… Continue Reading

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May 2 Webinar: Classroom Habitudes – Teaching 21st Century Skills to Brains Wired in Digital Age

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 0 Comments

Most books have one shot at success. If they don’t have strong initial sales, typically they are relegated to obscurity forever. However, we published the Classroom Habitudes nearly five years ago, and it is getting more attention now than ever. Years ago, I was thrilled whenever a teacher told me her or she was reading… Continue Reading

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Habitude: Imagination

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 2 Comments

Photo Credit:Jônatas Cunha http://www.flickr.com/people/jonycunha/ “If we cannot see the possibility, we cannot achieve the outcome. Imagination is our mind’s eye and gives us the capacity to jump from present facts to future possibilities. Our capacity to dream, hope, and plan for the future is influenced and impacted by the control and understanding of imagination’s… Continue Reading

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Teachers Matter

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 2 Comments

At a time when what it means to be a teacher is being defined by everyone except teachers, we need to remind ourselves of these two undeniable words: Teachers matter. After the tragedy in Newtown, CT, I published what became my most-read blog post ever; it generated so much traffic that my blog server crashed… Continue Reading

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Angela Maiers and Peter Reynolds Discuss Quest2Matter and Dot Day

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 3 Comments

EDIT: Peter was deeply impacted by the tragedy in Boston yesterday; his business is there, and his twin brother Paul was close to the explosion and shaken up. See the bottom of the post for the brilliant poster that Peter created in response to the tragedy, and share it with your students and loved… Continue Reading

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What good questions did you ask in school today?

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Angela Maiers • 0 Comments

This is a guest post by Jessica Parsons, a teacher with the Habitudes. “[People] love to wonder and that is the seed of science. “ – Ralph Waldo Emerson Ok, so I’m not trying to overdo it by using Emerson quotes each time I guest post, but they summarize the topic so perfectly! My 7th… Continue Reading

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