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Certell’s Poptential™ Addresses 21st-Century Wars With Free Memorial Day Teaching Resources

eSchool News

A Poptential mini-lesson focuses on the flight paths of the hijacked planes and highlights the October 2001 U.S. Iraq War of 2003 Explained —Believing that Iraq was amassing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that could be used in future terrorist attacks, the United States and the United Kingdom joined forces to invade Iraq.

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3 ways Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers) paved the way for edtech

eSchool News

Regardless of whether Mister Rogers’ puppets, trains, and soothing voice touched your childhood personally, he was inarguably a very “good neighbor” to millions of preschool children during his nearly 40 years of public broadcasting from 1963 to 2001.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

December 2003. Intercultural Education, 2001, 12(1), pp. Culturally Responsive Teaching for American Indian Students. Teaching To and Through Cultural Diversity. Curriculum Inquiry, 2013, 43(1), pp. Phuntsog, N. Culturally Responsive Teaching: What do selected United States elementary school teachers think? Siwatu, K.O.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000. Here’s the U.S.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. Inkeri, you’ve been teaching for 15 years. Can you tell us about your education background?

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What Your School Needs to Know About Trauma-Informed Practices

Waterford

14] Because of the way childhood trauma affects the brain, it can seriously inhibit a child’s well-being—especially if the child has no access to support. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2003, 12(2), pp. Developmental Psychology, 2001, 37(1), pp. Pediatrics, January 2012, 129(1), pp. Van der Kolk, B.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Information becomes content when there is a situation to apply it (Nonaka, 1999, Yaklief, 2010), but does not require a depth of understanding to access or transfer. Once created, individual, groups, departments, or the organization can control the dissemination and access to a larger number of people.

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