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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

For example, at many post-secondary institutions, a teaching space is considered to be a Smart Classroom if it merely comes equipped with nothing more than a microphone, computer, video projector. and whiteboard.

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VHS Learning Celebrates Twenty-Year Partnerships with Schools and Educational Consortiums

eSchool News

Catholic Independent Schools, Everett, Massachusetts, joined the VHS Learning network of partners in 2001. The four partners are: Anna High School in Anna, Ohio, partnered with VHS Learning (then known as “Virtual High School”) in 1998. The school is in a rural area and serves more than 350 students.

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Data-Driven Instruction for the Real World

Edsurge

But when secondary goals don’t align, teachers and school leaders find themselves in a contentious relationship. Since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, data in schools has become so many things—a carrot for more funding, a weapon used to dismiss teachers and a four-letter word.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

Edsurge

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. And the coursework, I never felt I learned terribly much from any of my classes, but it was very much secondary.

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Kids Use Play To Communicate. Here’s Why Adults Need To Pay Attention.

Edsurge

12, 2001, the day after the attacks on the United States known as 9/11. For example, many of the children that I have worked with over the years in Chicago and Baltimore have had first and secondary experiences with gun violence. From there we can begin to figure out how we can best serve their specific needs.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Connect: www.nassp.org , @NASSP.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Intercultural Education, 2001, 12(1), pp. Indicator 6: Elementary and Secondary Enrollment. Culturally Responsive Teaching: What do selected United States elementary school teachers think? Siwatu, K.O. Preservice teachers’ culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy beliefs. February 2019.

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