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Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

Conflict: It’s great for drama, and an inescapable part of human progress, but it can make for fraught situations in the classroom. Conflict can happen even in the most supportive, positive, and open classrooms, disrupting your students’ ability to learn. But there are concrete steps you can take to settle problems in the classroom.

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Using Book Creator for Differentiated Learning

EdTechTeacher

Differentiated instruction gives students multiple options for taking in information, making sense of their ideas and then expressing what they know (Tomlinson, 2001). In this book, you will find examples and practical tips on how Book Creator can be used to differentiate lessons for students in your classroom.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Sesame Workshop Launches VC Arm; PowerSchool Buys Interactive Achievement

Marketplace K-12

Recent deals in the K-12 market include not only moves by huge players like McGraw-Hill Education, but also activity by Sesame Workshop, PowerSchool, and EverFi. Established in 1997, Apple acquired the PowerSchool platform in 2001. Here’s a breakdown of mergers, acquisitions, fundraising and other deals in the school space.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

When I taught fifth grade, a new Shapegram greeted students in our Google Classroom for their morning message every Wednesday. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website. I live in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and after 12 years of self-employment, I returned to classroom teaching for the 2018-2019 school year.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. And professors have other ways to share their classroom tips: Publishing research about their teaching in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? The assessment takes the form of a team quiz to be undertaken during a flipped classroom tutorial by students using the technology Socrative. Lancaster and Strand, 2001; Brink, 2013; Opdecam and Everaert, 2012). The Process. Lancaster, K. and Lau, A.

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Today’s Reasons Why We Need Students to Write for Authentic Audiences

Educator Innovator

NCLB, enacted in 2001, was built upon deficit beliefs about culturally and linguistically diverse students. Together we designed, implemented, and documented original and responsive Writing Workshop units of study that culminated in publication out in the local community and digitally.

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