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How to Have Deeper Learning and Better Schools

The CoolCatTeacher

Professor Jal Mehta from the Harvard University School of Education has co-written an award-winning book “ In Search of Deeper Learning ” and reflects on how deeper learning can happen at the secondary level. Sponsor: Pear Deck.

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

As they listen, teachers can also show students how to be judgment-free listeners. This is also helpful by modeling for students how to be good listeners to their peers. Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students. January, 2020.

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How to direct a districtwide tech transformation on a budget

eSchool News

Here’s how we brought our district into the future without breaking our budget. Beginning a technological evolution When I first became an administrator in the 2013-14 school year, I started a coding initiative. Some teachers also felt like we were telling them how to teach. We can (and will!) always hope for more funding.

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How to Use the Dual Capacity-Building Framework to Strengthen Family Empowerment

Waterford

Since its initial publication in 2013, this framework has become a renowned model for developing better school communities through family and teacher empowerment. Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya. Organizing Engagement Staff. Wairimu, M.J.,

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

Edsurge

The standards , released in 2013, are based on up-to-date scientific research and aim to give teachers more flexibility when creating learning experiences, yet some schools have been slow to implement the standards due to a lack of funding earmarked for teacher training and textbooks. “You

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Hey, IT Leaders: When Disaster Strikes, Will Your School Be Ready?

EdTech Magazine

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. Work with your users on how to avoid phishing emails, including how to recognize them for what they are. . Do you have a secondary network connection?

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Hey, IT Leaders: When Disaster Strikes, Will Your District Be Ready?

EdTech Magazine

In 2013, just months after I started working as CIO of Bridgeport School District in Connecticut, my biggest fear about the job became reality: The district firewall was attacked. Work with your users on how to avoid phishing emails, including how to recognize them for what they are. . Do you have a secondary network connection?

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