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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Then, we’ll provide a few strategies for improving your cultural competency and even a starter list of diverse books to include in your classroom library or curriculum. For students from underrepresented backgrounds, culturally responsive teaching strategies can help them feel more comfortable in the classroom and improve school success.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

Use these first day of school read-alouds to teach social skills to your elementary students: David Goes to School by David Shannon. Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2002, 167(6), pp. Early Years: An International Research Journal, 2003, 23(1), pp. The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi. Miss Nelson is Missing!

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Five Ways Design and Making Can Help Science Education Come Alive

MindShift

We have to trust that allowing our students to tinker, question and invent, as early as elementary and middle school, will help them to develop positive identities that encourage a lifelong love of science, math and the creative process. 2003; Cornett 1986). Joy and laughter should be welcome in any classroom. Benefit No.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Reprinted from “Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids” by Denise Pope, Maureen Brown & Sarah Miles with permission from Wiley. In fact, friends are of the utmost importance to tweens and teens and understandably so (Berscheid, 2003; Gifford-Smith & Brownell, 2003).

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

The only long-term study of the program, called the Head Start Impact Study, began following enrollees in 2002 and stayed with them through third grade. Bush performs the timeless and bipartisan presidential ritual of reading to young children at Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland in the summer of 2003.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Brandon Wiley Executive Director, ISSN Asia Society Six School-Wide Strategies to Globalize Your School Understanding how to prepare students to succeed in an increasingly global society takes careful planning. Her passion to make a difference in the world through education and technology are clearly evident in her work.