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JANUARY 3, 2024

One of the greatest challenges schools and districts face is low parent engagement. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that children are learning, but learning extends beyond school walls. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that children are learning, but learning extends beyond school walls.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As attendees from various languages that Ohio schools shared their experiences, we vented about how often we had to stand up to colleagues to prevent them from pulling students out of our classes and how that devalued our teaching. I taught him Arabic in high school, and he had since been admitted to medical school after graduating college.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Literacy Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. If you prefer, read The Night Before the 100th Day of School about one boy’s struggle to find 100 of anything to bring to class for the 100th Day project.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

. — On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. When I first came to this school, I felt as if student voices didn’t matter. Although the verb keeps changing, D.C.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. This might become the core of an end-of-school (or back-to-school) Wish List for your class library.

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JULY 12, 2021

Once it was determined by my school district that we were continuing with distance learning when the school year started in 2020, there was a flurry of activity from our district in an attempt to create some type of training for teachers, many who were winging it in the Spring 2020 semester. What did one do? And this gets to my point.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Consider this five-step professional learning journey to ensure that your district professional learning experiences boost academic achievement and growth while building collective teacher efficacy. Create the five-year vision for your school. Schools were created for students, not for adults. Identify your five-year goal.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of inclusive education is to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or abilities, has an equal opportunity to learn and succeed. Chris Bugaj , an assistive technology specialist for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, is quick to advise teachers new to UDL to provide options to their students.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2022

Roadmap p 18) This report also says that the pandemic negatively impacted math and widened achievement gaps. Nancy Frey has researched Acceleration Research along with Douglas Fisher and shared their results in Rebound: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools. Nancy Frey.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

Black and Latino students living in poverty have been systemically affected by factors not related to their families but rather their schools. One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Interactive platforms like accredited online schools K-12 often include features that cater to diverse learning styles, such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Share their progress with them in a way they understand, and celebrate their achievements. Don’t forget to involve the students in this process.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. In addition to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, motivation theories of William Glasser, David McClelland, and Fredrick Herzberg have application to a school environment. Willian Glasser’s 5 Basic Needs.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

This has also led to high prices because it is something that schools have to have manufacturers of these products can effectively charge higher fees. While doing this I discovered that most typing programmes have been rated from an individual or family perspective and finding a rating for school usage is quite difficult.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

To shift AI toward being a more neutral, individual-oriented tool, educators can commit to teaching and supporting the use of gender decoders, which are algorithms that detect a lack of gender inclusivity, and other modalities aimed at achieving design balance.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. What may surprise you, however, is the average K12 school district uses a whopping 1,447 edtech products per month.

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APRIL 15, 2024

The Beauty of Freewriting Engaging in creative exercises such as freewriting, mind mapping, and storytelling can foster innovation and proficiency in essay writing skills, while seeking guidance from top essay writing services can offer valuable feedback and support in refining one’s craft to achieve academic excellence.

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APRIL 1, 2024

This includes fostering open communication channels with teachers and school staff, advocating for additional support resources such as online tutoring services, and instilling a growth mindset that emphasizes resilience and perseverance in the face of challenges.

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JUNE 19, 2024

Inclusive Design Inclusive design in educational technology is crucial to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, have equal access to learning opportunities. Ensure that the content is relevant to your curriculum goals and supports the learning objectives you want to achieve in your district.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. It’s one of the first things we ask for when we visit schools around the world.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence. A Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and other types of Learning and Employment Records (LERs) can help package those various achievements in one place for learners to share over their lifetimes.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. Schools should consider those things as they adopt AI tools.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I've seen this work with 70-year old teachers and 27-year old teachers alike and it is equally transformational when a teacher makes the commitment. When the accreditation board came to my school, they commented on how all of my teachers talked about “turtling.” Nobody can do everything. You can't try everything at once.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Higher levels of cognition and increased attention are noted among young school-aged children with an increased level of this sleep-induced effect. An even more exciting consequence of their use in education points to tech integration as a potential equalizer of learning differences.

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All About STEM

MARCH 8, 2023

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity and all are invited on the 8th of March to get involved and forge a world that’s diverse, equal, equitable, and inclusive.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every child deserves equal opportunities regardless of where they come from.” This sends them to school not ready to learn and has fundamental [negative] effects later in life that are difficult and expensive to reverse. Every child deserves equal opportunities regardless of where they come from.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

This means students take an active part in achieving education and personal goals. The problem is how to persuade students to voluntarily reflect on their progress, rethink goals, and make the required adjustments to achieve success? Set goals (What do I want to achieve?) Why Growth Mindset isn’t working in Schools Yet.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

I took on a role as a teacher recruiter at Achievement First, where my focus was working with principals to hire teachers. I assumed that all Black students experienced Black teachers in school. One of them — the principal at Achievement First Brooklyn high school — hired six Black teachers that year, including me.

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JULY 5, 2022

Not every student has an equal opportunity to learn modern, basic technology that is essential to lucrative careers, such as in STEM fields. Successful professional development creates a sustainable teaching capacity inside the school system. Global Benchmarking of Computational Thinking Education in Primary Schools.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

These decisions are informed by analyzing various types of data, such as academic achievement, non-academic factors, program and systems data, and perception data. In turn, this analysis helps educators make informed choices that directly affect student learning and school effectiveness.

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JULY 7, 2022

Does the way we fund scientific research benefit everyone equally? For example, if a physicist visits a school to give a talk about careers in science. Visit www.stonybrook.edu/summer/audience/high-school-students and www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/stem-smart/k-12/step to find out more. • Published: July 7, 2022. Dr Thomas S.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts. Another resource for further exploration is the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero’s Visible Thinking project.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We discuss how rigor is not about making things harder for students but about setting high expectations and providing support to help students achieve those expectations. In math, rigor can be achieved by going beyond basic computation and focusing on identifying and explaining misconceptions. to help them achieve that.

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JULY 7, 2017

Compare 2 numbers as greater than, less than, or equal. Understand mathematical equality. Though just released (for iOS and Android) in July 2017, it has been piloted in over a hundred schools. Players learn to: Develop number sense. Count to 100 by ones and tens. Count forward and backward from a given number. Download the app.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. One survey of educators found a jump from about two-thirds of middle and high school students having access to a school-issued device prior to the pandemic, to 90 percent a year later.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

It establishes boundaries for students, provides expectations that they can rely on, and offers a reliable way to self-assess student achievement of class goals: According to Skinner, behavior is a learned response reinforced by the consequences resulting from that behavior. setting classroom rules at the beginning of the school year.

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