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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah began his teaching career in 2001 and has worked as a Spanish Teacher, English Teacher, Technology Teacher, EdTech Coach, and Blended Learning Coach. In 2013, he was honored to represent the profession as the ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year. You can read his blog at medium.com/@senorg.

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Meet the Support Network Addressing Out-Of-School Challenges for Every Student

Edsurge

City Connects has been around since 2001, but has even earlier roots in a two-year partnership between Boston Public Schools and researchers at Boston College from diverse disciplines, including psychology and special education. At Mendell, City Connects has had a continuous presence since 2013.

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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. Eventually Czar, along with his longtime business partner LJ Chisholm, became part of NonStop Hip-Hop Live, the crew that established the nonprofit Love Peace and Hip-Hop in 2013.

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

In the study conducted during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years, more than 2,000 ninth and tenth grade students in Chicago public schools were randomly selected to receive an entire class period of math tutoring every day in addition to their regular algebra class. One student might be weak in fractions, another in division.

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How to reorientate education from knowledge acquisition to knowledge & skill mastery

100mentors

In a recent research, Google found no correlation between GPAs and success in a workplace ( Bryant, 2013 ). People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment” ( Bryant, 2013 ). Waterman, Schwartz, Goldbacher, Green, Miller, Philip, 2001 ).

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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. 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. September 2010 – June 2013. June 2013. August 15, 2013.

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

edWeb.net

to determine what programs will assist with meeting learning goals. The Clearinghouse not only provides access to programs that meet the different ESSA criteria, but users receive further guidance on successful implementation. Prior to coming to ODE in 2013, he worked at nonprofit research centers in Rhode Island and Ohio.