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What Happens When 'Play' Is Left Out of the School Curriculum

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Even though I wasn’t providing direct instruction and students weren't working to achieve that day’s content objective, I felt like I was watching learning happen all around me. But what is learning and why is play seen as so antithetical to teaching? It was a pleasant surprise after such a stressful situation.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. Image credit: Paulo Ordoveza.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

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Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. It shows that a common argument against detracking that it hurts students by holding them back from higher level math courses is wrong, Iwasaki says. Detracking doesnt solve the underlying problem, which is achievement gaps, Loveless argues.

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The Secret to Successful Essay Writing: 10 Proven Tips to Level Up

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Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. Achieving high grades, personal development, and future professional success all hinge on strong essay writing abilities. It presents your main argument and sets the direction for your paper.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Will it diminish or overshadow the other myriad accomplishments they have achieved? For many families, a high school diploma is a huge accomplishment that not everyone has been able to achieve. Will it diminish or overshadow the other myriad accomplishments they have achieved?

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

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Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

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Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. They're the part of the brain that coordinates our social, emotional and behavioral capacities in order to achieve goals. These are the most neurocognitive skills we have. It's the kid currency.

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