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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

To put into practice what I discussed above, I am going to have my gifted 3rd-6th grade students do the following Hyperdoc starting with our first meeting together. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ). Knowing our students is fundamental to real differentiation ( 6 Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students ).

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307: Elevating Media Literacy Through Screen Language: Insights from Sherard Duvall

The Thinking Stick

Join him on a journey where the power of human connection meets the magic of screen language. After graduation in 2001, he took a job first as Production Assistant at Columbia’s Mad Monkey, then in 2004 as an editor at Genesis Studios in Cayce, South Carolina.

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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. Postgraduate enrolments have more than doubled since 2009-10. Although lower than the global average of 36.7%

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. Here is a run-down: 2001. February 2009. September 2009 – June 2009. My colleagues and I survive a number of meetings with various District staff who have no answers about the future of our jobs or our school community. June 2013. August 15, 2013.

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PROOF POINTS: 5 Questions for Daniel Koretz

The Hechinger Report

Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. Alice Rivlin was the director, and she asked for a meeting with me and my immediate boss. Daniel Koretz. Credit: Jill Anderson/Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

Meet Informal Mentoring When I think of informal mentoring, I recall a scene in the Blue Bloods “Highway to Hell.” Ask them to sit with you at the faculty meeting. So, Just because you’ve sat through seemingly one thousand staff meetings doesn’t mean you have to pass along the poison. 25) Learning Policy Institute.

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. Here is a run-down: 2001. February 2009. September 2009 – June 2009. My colleagues and I survive a number of meetings with various District staff who have no answers about the future of our jobs or our school community. June 2013. August 15, 2013.