Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher, has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Named the #1 Top Global Education Influencer (2021, ISC Research), she has blogged at the award-winning Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 — one of the world's top teacher blogs for over 20 years. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms. She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world. She hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast (8+ million downloads) and Cool Cat Teacher Talk — reaching more than a million educators each week across radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms — interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love. If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students and family, digging into a book, or tinkering with technology.
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