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What are executive functioning skills and how can students strengthen them?

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What are executive functioning skills for students? The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University writes , “Research on the developing brain shows us that early childhood experiences build the foundation for a skilled workforce, a responsible community, and a thriving economy.” Sound familiar?

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School Needs a Redesign, and Educators Can Lead the Way

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You wouldn’t be absorbing a trove of new content, but you would be learning skills critically important to thriving in our rapidly changing economies. You’d be learning to step toward resilience, agility, designing with others, creative collaboration. Meow Wolf isn’t alone in looking for creatives.

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Achieving Collectively What We Can’t Do Alone

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It can already be difficult for them to achieve their highest visions for preparing all learners for life beyond school. Are students faring better on particular campuses or in particular majors? One of those opportunities is to cultivate systemic interdependence between education and other sectors.

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CASEL Announces 2020 Award Recipients for Excellence in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Research and Practice

eSchool News

Zins Awards for Social and Emotional Learning Action Research. xSEL Labs) for the 2020 Zins Awards for Research. Joe Zins and Mary Utne O’Brien helped to establish the field of SEL and did groundbreaking, collaborative work to advance SEL research, practice, and policy. “Joe ETS) and Clark McKown, Ph.D

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A Resource-Packed Guide on How Digital Learning Can Connect Youth to Opportunity

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Shawn Grimes Prodding kids to become agile digital-media autodidacts is one way Digital Harbor fulfills its mission of preparing youth for a future that will have jobs and careers that don’t yet exist. Then they are told: Build a robot that draws.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Today, over 2.9

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise. Kelsey is the Research Communications Manager at Digital Promise. Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco.

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