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Tips for Teachers to Balance Work and Life During the Busy Parent-Teacher Conference Season

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A flexible schedule allows you to make time for essential duties or emergencies. Moreover, without a specific agenda, meetings often run longer, and at the end of the meeting, you might not achieve the objectives you want. Signing Off One of the primary challenges most professionals face is achieving the perfect work-life balance.

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How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar

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Understanding the Concept of a Genius Bar The primary goal of a Genius Bar in a school is to create a space where students can help each other with technology-related problems, whether it’s troubleshooting a software issue, learning how to use new applications, or getting advice on digital projects.

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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

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The primary purpose of grading is to communicate a student’s achievement of learning goals. I believe in a system with less standardized learning and more emphasis on flexible deadlines, peer collaboration and teaching, smaller learning communities, and sharing learning through authentic public showcases.

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This Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

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We’ve developed a comprehensive and flexible curriculum intended for mass adoption. Global Benchmarking of Computational Thinking Education in Primary Schools. We aim to focus our strategic efforts on achieving results in a few specific areas. PD will be scaled to build teacher capacity for the whole primary education sector.

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6 Must-reads for This Summer

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In Bold School, Kieschnick lays out an effective, workable education framework that blends common sense with technology while reminding teachers that tech is a useful tool for achieving pedagogic goals, not the opposite. And, most are free. Why did I pick this book?

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American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

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As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. The answer? Not enough. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

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Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. All it took to get these remote systems started was a problem that required a solution and flexible risk-taking stakeholders who came up with answers. What did I miss?