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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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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

To address this divide, it is necessary yet insufficient to ensure all schools have access to the internet and devices. 1 McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, & Hamilton, 2003; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2000; Rowan, Correnti & Miller, 2002; Wright, Horn, & Sanders, 1997. To learn more about our findings, read the full report.

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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

When students see failure as an opportunity to find out what they do not know and to adjust their learning strategies rather than as an indication of self-worth, they’re more likely to persevere. Educators can practice these five strategies for cultivating a growth mindse t to help them translate high expectations into student success.

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The 9 Qualities of A Good Teacher

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. At the relational level, effective teachers share mutual respect with their students and treat them with dignity, kindness and appreciation providing them with equitable access to learning resources.

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Speak Up 2021 Congressional Briefing: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual School

edWeb.net

Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. While some of these were tangible—like the need to equip all students with tech tools and WiFi access—it’s the more systemic changes that are catching educators’ attention. Director of Brand Strategy and Creative at Blackboard.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”