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Two Cities Pay Teachers Based on Their Quality. Does It Work?

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Dallas’ Teacher Excellence Initiative measures teacher quality based on student achievement scores, teacher performance and student experience surveys. Student achievement is scored based on test scores and individual improvement. Yet many of those high performing teachers are clustered in already high-achieving schools.

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Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students

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A well-maintained digital library enhances productivity and allows you to focus more on learning and less on logistics. Breaking down larger goals into smaller milestones can make them more manageable and give you a sense of accomplishment as you achieve each one. Incorporate relaxation techniques into your routine to manage stress.

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Align Your Edtech Investments With What Matters Most

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Beyond the logistical concerns involved in deploying more than 25,000 Windows devices to students and teachers, this effort also represented a stress test for the district’s commitment to equity and access for all of its students. Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

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One of the biggest complaints about the HyFlex model is the logistical challenge for the teacher of attending to those in the physical classroom as well as those logging in remotely on Zoom. That’s why Rhoads argues that institutions should invest in making courses more flexible rather than just leave the work to those teaching the courses.

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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. The method is simple: Select a template and blend in your unique grade-level content at the right places.

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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

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In part, that’s due to logistical challenges. The pressures put on young people to achieve, perform and produce, are greater than ever. Too often, the older students get, the less schools prioritize SEL. The reality is that in many ways, adolescents are in more acute need of social-emotional support than their younger counterparts.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

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Focusing on education, education reform — whatever you want to call it — achieving better educational outcomes, as a philanthropist, is a good way to become humble rather quickly, because it usually doesn’t go as folks hope.” “If you look at the sum total of the efforts, I’m not sure you’d give them the highest grades,” he said.

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