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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, Mitch co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, to help organizations reach teachers and students in the US. If you are at all interested in what Mitch did before 2005, buy him a glass of wine and ask. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom. 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in the Classroom.

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Alabama doesn’t want early childhood teachers talking about bias. Researchers say they need to.

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. Part of the issue stems from adults misinterpreting normal child behavior as misbehavior, said Linda Smith, director of the Early Childhood Development Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “A

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Thirty-four elementary schools are contributing data to the district’s Project Daffodil, examining relationships between weather and plants.

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5 Great Software Functions!

WJU EdTech

Wieman and Perkins (2005) report research stated that interactive simulations in physics are frequently more effective than seeing actual demonstrations! The appeal stems around the desire for competition and play. Don’t be fooled by the picture of the elementary students on the Kahoot web site.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017.

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