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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. educational system for at least a generation. and whiteboard.

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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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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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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

AASA members range from chief executive officers, superintendents and senior level school administrators to cabinet members, professors and aspiring school system leaders. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Connect: www.nassp.org , @NASSP. Connect: www.ccsso.org , @CCSSO. extra-state jurisdictions.

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Senate to tackle NCLB update

eSchool News

A proposed update to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would strengthen state and local control and end federal test-based accountability. the legislation would give more power to states and local school districts when it comes to creating accountability systems and puts a renewed focus on improving struggling schools.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

District leaders will need to have and communicate a clear, powerful vision about where the school system is headed in order to guide the way forward. As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts.

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

percent pay raise — but according to reporting by Education Week, “they also want class-size reductions, changes to the teacher-evaluation system, and more school nurses, librarians, and restorative-justice advisors.”. These systems prohibit states from distributing tax dollars where there is greater need.