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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

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Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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How Has the Pandemic Changed the Way Educators Think About Homework?

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They cite homework’s impact on the achievement gap between students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. They’re providing additional flexibility, assigning and grading less homework in light of the pandemic. This worries Pope, because engagement with learning is closely tied to academic achievement and mental wellbeing.

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How to Increase Homework Completion

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Incorporate Student Interest Recent research has found that aligning homework tasks with student preferences, such as technology-based platforms or relevant topics, can enhance academic achievement and reduce learning anxiety. Plus, if students only have 10 problems to answer versus twenty, they are more likely to complete the assignment.

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American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

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Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years.

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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

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If we don't get in front of this now with a nimble, flexible, guideline policy or strategy as a collective whole, it's gonna continue to change.” Principals want guidance from organizations like Michigan Virtual “not just to avoid stepping into the black hole as a leader but to use it to effectively use it to improve student achievement.”

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A Chess Class for Elementary Students (with a DIY micro:bit -Driven Chess Clock)

User Generated Education

To be able to fulfill larger tasks in life, kids need to learn how to create a ‘plan of attack’ and outline plausible, step-by-step ways to achieve goals. Teaches Flexibility and How to Stay Calm Under Pressure. During a game, players must strategically map out a plan and then execute it successfully in order to win.

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8 Reasons Why Students Should Create Videos and 15 Webtools to Do That

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Here are eight reasons why students should always be offered the option of using flexible learning paths such as videos to leverage their ideas: Practice writing skills. That calm, assured presentation is based on a depth of knowledge on the topic being covered, only achieved by close reading of the materials. The joy of taping.