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Why Use SplashLearn in Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Research-Based and Expert-Designed Content : Developed from educational research, SplashLearn’s curriculum and games align with academic standards, target misconceptions, and include scaffolding to support learners and foster deep understanding. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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How to Redesign Your Report Card Template

Gradelink

This moment might just be the perfect time to rethink your school’s report cards. Or perhaps you want a more user-friendly aesthetic that allows parents to check their child’s progression using grade-level standards and expectations. What Elements Make Up A Report Card? Traditional and Standards-Based Report Cards.

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

The Hechinger Report

After the Denver Zoo’s James Garcia, who had been seeking a way to help Peruvian scientists save the frogs, saw students present a robot they had built at a local workshop, he asked if they could construct an underwater model. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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Standardized tests in their current format are ‘incredibly antiquated’

The Hechinger Report

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. Why do you believe it?

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

We also wanted to center each districts’ CS mission and vision and integrate the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Computer Science and the KAS for Technology. A bit of Appalachian ingenuity. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom? The post Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Dress codes are the new ‘whites only’ signs

The Hechinger Report

Hair has nothing to do with academic standards or college readiness. Except hair has nothing to do with academic standards or college readiness. In 2013, Deborah Brown Community School, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sent Tiana Parker home after telling the 7-year-old that her locs did not look “presentable.”

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OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future

The Hechinger Report

Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways. Overcoming our present challenges will require fundamentally new ways of thinking and acting. It will also require academic proficiency.

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