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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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I’m a big believer in online web-based curricula that can be accessed from any browser, any digital device, any location. It makes learning organic, part of life rather than something that must happen from a certain book or room. To me, the growing popularity of web-based curricula is no surprise.

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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

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Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . Following a careful review of available options, VWSD selected Discovery Education’s flexible K-12 learning platform for classroom use.

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

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At the Institute for Teaching and Leading , a professional learning organization that I co-founded, many of our partner districts are focused less on deficits and more on active learning, which we call the asset-based mindset. Focus on gatekeeper standards. Santa Fe Public Schools Multi-dimensional project-based learning.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Punitive mindset in grading and providing feedback: The key is to look at the staff culture and think about changing teachers’ mindsets so they are focused on not just grading assignments but truly helping students learn. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed.

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Professional development should make teachers feel urgent, not small and isolated

eSchool News

The need for more practical and effective professional learning opportunities for teachers is especially important right now, with new academic standards being introduced and adapted in schools across the country. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has a vision for how that can happen.

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16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read

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While digital content is handy and accessible, many of the issues we face as educators are deeper than any single post–or series of posts–can adequately address. Visible Learning & The Science Of How We Learn by John Hattie and Gregory Yates. Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post. Got data? .”