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

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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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5 Essential Questions Educators Have About AI

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Recently, I spoke with several teachers regarding their primary questions and reflections on using AI in teaching and learning. The real question is not just about what tasks AI can help us do faster or more easily, but rather, what educators should be doing — and how AI can assist us in achieving those goals.

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement. Does homework cause achievement or do high achievers do more homework? When students are intrinsically motivated to do their homework, they are more engaged in the work, which in turn is associated with academic achievement.

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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Learners achieve higher achievement scores in math One 2016 randomized study by Roschelle et al found that students attained higher achievement scores when teachers combined one-on-one attention and web-based homework tools. These findings may be what a teacher needs to go on an all-out tech discovery journey.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

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Most importantly, the user experience and instruction time are now the primary focus rather than how to connect products. Ensuring that a wide range of strategies for personalized, student-centered learning and pathways can be achieved by enabling a choice of digital learning products that can be configured for the needs of each student.

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Most Students Think History Is Boring. Here's How We Change That.

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Achieved through direct instruction, presenting big ideas first engages students for subsequent details in many social studies classrooms. I often weave these historical narratives into content through primary sources. Students now question and eagerly await answers. Make History Personal Alex's great-grandfather's World War I helmet.

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How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading

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In Susan Blum’s “ Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (And What to Do, Instead) ,” we discover that when it comes to concerns about grade inflation: “The trouble isn’t that too many students are getting As but that too many students have been led to believe the primary purpose of schooling is to get As,” she writes.

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