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JUNE 4, 2024

June 4th-6th: Buy any K-8 School License get 2 free print books of the grade level you purchased (Please note: new orders only; domestic or freight-forwarders only) Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally. Additionally, my administrators studied innovative school models at various locations. Dr. Joseph W.

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MAY 13, 2024

High School students will soon move into college and career where digital tools are de rigeur. Here are twelve recommended by the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students In the ever-evolving landscape of education, keeping students engaged can be a challenge.

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JUNE 2, 2022

June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License. provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

With AI and automation reshaping entire industries, the skills employers once valued are being overtaken by the need for creativity, adaptability and technological fluency. But how can schools equip students with these essential competencies? Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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APRIL 3, 2023

Defining personalized learning Technology is associated with personalized learning for a variety of reasons. Zareen Poonen Levien, the director of digital learning at San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), suggests that technology can be leveraged to fully engage a student to give them choice and creativity. “A

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MAY 13, 2021

I get a lot of interest from high school teachers about teaching databases. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors explains… Is It Worth Teaching School Kids SQL? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. One of those strategies is SQL. What is SQL, you ask? Introducing SQL.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Students arrive in the classroom with a diverse range of needs, and helping them succeed isnt always straightforward.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its flexible, willingly-chosen and yes, fun. Instead, many schools either give students too little math instruction or too little play. Not everyone in the school uses this approach, either.

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MAY 31, 2024

It’s graduation time for High School seniors, that moment when they take over their own bills, budgets, and balancing income with outcomes. The following seven tips by Harley Wade from State of Writing will help high school students learn how to budget properly. Maybe rent money was more flexible than expected.

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MARCH 21, 2023

The skills required to succeed in your post-High School life, be it college, a vocational training program, the military, or a job, are surprisingly similar. Being flexible and open to embracing change also helps graduates stay ahead of the curve in a competitive job market. Copyright ©2023 Askatechteacher.com– All rights reserved.

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MAY 20, 2024

When Mysa School started about eight years ago, the microschool movement was new. A school with about 40 students in Washington, D.C., The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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APRIL 3, 2024

Is your classroom technology falling short of its promise of changing the classroom dynamic? For school district technology leaders, navigating a potential refresh of classroom technology can be daunting. A technology refresh is not just about keeping up with the latest trends or adding the latest features.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

As a white, queer educator in predominantly white school districts, stepping back from risks often felt like the easierand saferchoice. Departmental and school-wide conversations werent about how to inspire students or make learning meaningful, they were about tracking data and avoiding the label of failure.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston. “We It was meant as a gentle nudge, but the parent took it as terse and demanding, and complained to the head of the school about Frommert’s tone. I work at an international school.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging in research and design work with communities of researchers, practitioners and edtech product developers has led us to define several principles we believe will assist in building learning technology that is attuned to the needs of diverse students and educators, based on modern learning principles and designed for broad adoption and scale.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As this school year approaches an end and students start to plan on college life, the Ask a Tech Teacher team has suggestions on how to make that work well: Balancing Academics and Social Life in College College life is an exhilarating journey filled with learning, discovery, and growth. But, why is balance so crucial?

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MAY 13, 2024

Today’s high school and college students are part of Generation Z, a group of people who range in age from 12 to 28, and have characteristics, attitudes and aspirations that distinguish them from prior generations. It is not, however, known for its flexibility or pay. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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JULY 8, 2024

Age Group Familiarity : Select someone experienced with teaching children in your child’s age group, as pedagogy varies significantly between elementary and high school levels. The Importance of Flexibility in Scheduling Flexibility can make or break an online tutoring arrangement.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. When I was in school, Ryan recalled, we had one speech pathologist.

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MAY 5, 2023

Just like that, she’s gone,” my friend said to me just a few weeks ago, devastated that her daughter’s second grade teacher — her favorite teacher — left before the school year ended. In eight states, teacher turnover rates are the highest they’ve been in five years, with schools serving families with high poverty rates being hit the hardest.

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MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. But my school doesn’t work that way. Morita, you were wrong.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

their flexibility. Flexibility. A short course is very flexible because it is an online school where every student manages their time of study. A short course is very flexible because it is an online school where every student manages their time of study. where to take them. Where To Study Short Course?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out. They are stay-at-home moms whose kids are in school.

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JUNE 8, 2024

How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar Modeled after Apple’s popular tech support stations, a Genius Bar in a school setting is a student-run help desk where peers provide tech support, advice on digital tools, and assistance with various tech-related issues. Training can include workshops, online courses, and hands-on practice sessions.

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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. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Getting into algebra early is thought to improve college attractiveness, and the course is often a high school graduation requirement.

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MAY 3, 2023

School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling students get back on track academically after the disruption caused when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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MARCH 15, 2023

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year.

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MARCH 19, 2020

I’ve taught many years in both environments and love online teaching because it is flexible, diversified, self-directed, and self-paced. Tools to prepare for school closures –suggested by Common Sense. Navigating Uncertain Times: How Schools Can Cope With Corona virus –from EdSurge. 7 Ways to Keep Teaching.

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MAY 25, 2022

The possibility to find the copied text and its exact source is worth a lot for many HigherEd teachers because their students use various and complex sources, unlike the high-school learners. . Low flexibility is another major disadvantage. The price is considerably lower, while flexibility is higher.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

How to keep children safe online is the most popular question parents ask at my school. Don’t hope school teaches them. Know what their school does to keep your child safe online. Children are flexible. Should they keep their children away from computers or just off the internet? They may, or might teach them wrong.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. It’s changed his attitude about school. Bradley loves baking lava cakes.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What should we do in the week leading up to that inevitable time in October when all things seem to fall apart in school? My husband and I met as teachers in Atlanta, and while I left the classroom several years ago, he has been a high school administrator for the last six years. We have faced national teaching shortages before.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Luckily, technology has intervened and come up with some very innovative solutions that make it quick and easy for a teacher to stay connected with parents. You could use a school notification system that sends the same message to all of the parents in your class at one time, or just one message at a time if necessary.

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