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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.” The post How to do online learning well? Does it work?

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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

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Half of all principals quit during their third year , and districts nationwide are trying to figure out how to better support principals and improve their effectiveness. Finally, they went back to their partners to make a critical decision: How would they guide the principal to help fix the problems they’d witnessed?

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.”

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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

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It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

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Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

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In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. For Sphero and its 170 employees, work with St.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

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When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In She said she holds her students to the same standards as their general education peers.

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