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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

9,16] If educators are unaware how to teach and support multicultural students, they will fail to reach a significant portion of their school. Yet, there is hope: over 96% of elementary school teachers view culturally responsive teaching as important when working with diverse students.[7] Hosea Plays On by Kathleen M.

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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

In my previous blog on the subject , we explored some of the better online resources for the elementary school teacher hoping to blend their elementary school classroom. Why is digital PBL so rare in foundational and elementary phases? In 2013 Leslie M. 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study. Why is that, indeed?

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Example: Teach students how to critically evaluate media representations of race. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Encourage students to analyze and question what they see. Everett, S., & Carey, C.

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

Jon is a Google Certified Innovator (#GTAWA 2011), has been a Lead Learner for a Google Teacher Academy (#GTAMTV2), is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and has facilitated over 10 Executive Briefings and led sessions in Final Cut Pro for the 2013 Apple Institute. So I taught my kids how to self-correct. The difference is pedagogy.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. You know, Charlottesville is the center of Albemarle County.

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

Starting in 2002, the foundation has dedicated more than $40 million of those dollars to early education initiatives, and the results have been transformative, said foundation CEO Maria Jimenez-Laura. By 2013, the last year for which data is available, the gap between the two groups had shrunk to just 10 percent.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

By the end of the 2013-14 academic year, Whitmore Lake had lost about 25 percent of its enrollment, dropping from 1,300 to 960 students. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. We had to figure out how to survive.”. Jobs were cut at nearby auto plants. The district offered employees buyouts and didn’t fill vacancies.

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