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Teaching Feels Like a Dead-End Job. Here’s How Schools Can Change That.

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Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side.

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Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools

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Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts. Today it sits at 9.5

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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less

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More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. And a bipartisan coalition quickly agreed that reducing absenteeism by half should be the “top priority” for American schools. At least, that’s what a new study argues.

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How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten

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But, not at school). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Distinguish ads from content on sites. Once on the assigned website on their devices, don’t click on links outside it (yes, you understand they can do this at home. Show them how to identify those outside of the assigned one. What did they learn?

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice. It's likely a matter of cognitive science!

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High School and Personalized Learning

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In this article, discover how high school education is shifting towards personalized learning. The Future of High School Education: Navigating the Shift to Personalized Learning High school – a time of excitement, curiosity, exploration and growth. Technology advances and education evolves at an unprecedented pace.

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How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?

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Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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