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How Mindfulness Can Help Teachers and Students Manage Challenging Situations

MindShift

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Norton & Company. Let’s imagine that this is the moment a parent challenges you in a meeting or the moment you learn that a colleague was diagnosed with a serious illness. meeting confrontation.

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5 In 2014-15, some 2.7

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Searsport had started transitioning to a standards-based diploma in 2002, after receiving a share of a $10-million school reform grant that Gates had made to the Sen. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute , an organization that gives out scholarships to Maine students. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.)

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CAE And Centerpoint Education Solutions Collaborate To Support Mutual College And Career Readiness Goals

eSchool News

Nonprofits will seek opportunities to ensure assessments and curricula measure and teach essential skills most important to secondary and higher education students and institutions. The like-minded nonprofit organizations will share ideas and key learnings, identifying ways to meet the needs of today’s states, districts, schools and students.

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Can Online Learning Level the AP Playing Field for Rural Students?

MindShift

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5

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Wednesday's "Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning" Mini-Conference - New Sessions Added

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. In 2002, with partner Rick Harrell, former President of Futurekids, Inc., To make sure your computer or mobile is configured for Zoom, please visit zoom.us/test.

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Buncee Activities Aligned with SEL Competencies

Buncee

Research shows that “The social climate of the classroom more strongly predicted GPA than teachers’ instructional practices (Griffith, 2002). Here are two easy ways to do that using some great Buncee templates on the Self-Management Buncee Board (secondary) and Self-Management Buncee Board (elementary). You read that correctly.