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Many community college students never earn a degree. New approaches to advising aim to reverse that trend

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Lewis, a second-year student at Chattahoochee Valley Community College who is working toward a medical assisting degree, chatted about her academic progress. Shannon” is one of three new success coaches at the small two-year college in Phenix City, Alabama.

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18 manageable ways to differentiate when kids have gaps in their learning

The Cornerstone for Teachers

We assess young students for phonemic awareness and if they can rhyme words and segment and blend sounds. But as the years get further away from infancy and clear-cut 6 months vs 9-month goalposts, it becomes difficult to say what this 10 year old child *should* be doing. This is reality.

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17 Hero Awards finalists demonstrate their commitment to education

eSchool News

Jim Perry came to education as a second career and has brought such dedication and fresh perspective to his staff, students, and district at large. Jim wanted to support student well-being and resilience in the face of the disruption and set-back in social-emotional learning that COVID created. Jim embraced EmpowerU immediately.

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The Power of “Yet”: How to Unlock a Growth Mindset

Brainscape

I’d sit down with a tune in my head and pretty quickly figure out its basic chord structure but by the 20-minute-mark, I’d become furious at my inability to get it perfect right away. What do we know about personal development and nurturing a growth mindset? you name it, it sucked.

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MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

The Hechinger Report

From the time she was in elementary school, Isabella Cross has dreamed of going to an Ivy League college to become an engineer. This story also appeared in The Washington Post But in her “little no-name town,” as she describes it, selective universities and colleges rarely came to recruit. And a lot of them never get out.

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