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Friday 5: Virtual field trips

eSchool News

When COVID mandated at-home and hybrid learning, many educators turned once again to virtual trips to keep students engaged in learning during pandemic-related instructional challenges. These trips can help students get a front-row look at STEM outside of the classroom. Make real-world issues more relevant for students.

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Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen

The Hechinger Report

Nearly one year ago, Tennessee school districts warned thousands of parents that because of a new state law, third grade students could be held back a year if they are not reading on grade level by spring. But of the roughly 44,000 third grade students who scored low enough to be at risk of retention, just under 900 students , or 1.2

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How to Improve the Teacher of Color Pipeline? Ask Teachers of Color

Digital Promise

Black, Indigenous, students of color make up more than 50 percent of the K-12 student population, yet the number of non-white teachers in schools is only 20 percent. With support from the Walton Family Foundation, we aimed to take a different approach by centering teachers of color in creating solutions for recruitment and retention.

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It’s time to pay student teachers

eSchool News

My classroom, where I planned to continue teaching after student teaching, even counted toward my student teaching requirement. When she started as an assistant teacher in my classroom nearly five years ago, she was nearing the end of her teacher preparation program with only the student teaching requirement to complete.

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It’s 2018, not 1918. Basic skills are not enough.

Dangerously Irrelevant

On Tuesday, Lewis said the current system already penalizes students by not actually preparing them for success. If we don’t frame future readiness and life success as more than basic skills, we’re doing our students and graduates a grave disservice. That is bad news for Americans because we charge a lot for our labor.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

It’s her job to guide teachers on how to help struggling readers at the 600-student school. This story also appeared in The Washington Post Only a few months remain before Tennessee third-grade students take a state reading test — students who don’t pass could be held back a year. And the clock is ticking.

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OPINION: Algebra success isn’t about a ‘perfect’ curriculum — schools need to invest in math teacher training and coaching

The Hechinger Report

There has been much talk and concern in recent months about making higher-level math more accessible to high schoolers, particularly low-income students from Black and Hispanic communities. They created a new lesson structure that focused more on getting students to help each other solve problems than on getting direction from teachers.

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