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Ensuring Equity for English Learners (ELs)

Catlin Tucker

By differentiating instruction to meet individual needs, teachers can provide targeted support, scaffold learning, and gradually increase linguistic demands to facilitate their language acquisition journey.

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Tips for Effective Curriculum Development and Implementation in Private Schools

Hubbli

Align Curriculum with Standards and Assessments: Curriculum development should also involve aligning the curriculum with relevant academic standards and assessments. It is important to stay up-to-date with current standards and assessments and to integrate them into the curriculum in a meaningful way.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. We hired an outside consultant -- Education Elements -- who specializes in, and works with our teachers on, the pedagogical aspects of personalized learning models (i.e.

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Online Preschool Is Not Education for All

Edsurge

In an education reform climate that has redefined education as academic standards and success on tests, online pre-K programs are an easy sell. The more recent emergence of online preschool programs opens the door for cyber education businesses to cash in on the estimated $70 billion per year “pre-K market.”

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

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Big question for edtech: But how do we know what’s working?

The Hechinger Report

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. Participants can teach to student avatars in a virtual classroom, check out the Two Bit Circus or attend “Hour of Power,’’ sessions that promise to be “provocative, fun and interactive.”.

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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

eSchool News

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.