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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

Edsurge

If the only approach schools took to address this crisis was hiring more counselors, they would ignore what these Detroit youth organizers are highlighting: the underlying policies and practices in schools that exacerbate the fear and anxiety immigrant students experience in schools.

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Improving reading skills and SEL through text-based discussions

eSchool News

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, director of customer advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Related content: 5 discussion tools to fuel student engagement.

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Taking Our Eye Off the Ball

Iterating Toward Openness

I posted the first installment yesterday, explaining how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. Affordability seems to have become the end goal of OER advocacy, instead of being an important step on the path to improving student learning.

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Personalized Learning Is the Answer. (I Forgot the Question.)

Edsurge

[A short list of organizations includes funders like the Gates Foundation and Next Generation Learning Challenges and advocacy groups like the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and the International Society of Technology Education (ISTE). But making time for conversations was only the starting point.

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Student Engagement and Closing the Opportunity Gap

Reading By Example

Although the professor doesn’t come right out and say it, what she is describing is engagement. Many thinkers in education have provided their definition of this abstract concept. Here’s mine: Students are engaged when they are both highly interested in and committed to their learning pursuits.

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Effective Intervention for Students with Dyslexia

EdNews Daily

Additionally, the structured literacy approach is systematic, with a logical order to the skills and concepts being taught (usually progressing from the simplest to the most complex), cumulative, new learning builds on students’ prior knowledge, and diagnostic, instruction is informed by student data.

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Student Engagement and Closing the Opportunity Gap

Reading By Example

Although the professor doesn’t come right out and say it, what she is describing is engagement. Many thinkers in education have provided their definition of this abstract concept. Here’s mine: Students are engaged when they are both highly interested in and committed to their learning pursuits.