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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. In the Bristol school district and elsewhere, some administrators feel overwhelmed — and wary.

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Thursday's Microschool Summit - Stories of Starting Schools | Schedule Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

After getting a master’s degree in nuclear fusion (MIT), Kelly held engineering and marketing roles at various technology companies. He is the founder and CEO of Prenda (prendaschool.com), an education company that helps people run microschools out of their homes. He started a microschool around his kitchen table in January 2018.

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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. “I have some bright students, and a lot of them felt chagrined that they weren’t able to deduce this,” said Colglazier, who videotaped the episode last January.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

Edsurge

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . If you try to have regimented exercises, every single person has to do the exact same thing. Boyer has received the Students’ Choice Award as a Faculty Member of the Year for 13 straight years.

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