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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

1 McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, & Hamilton, 2003; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2000; Rowan, Correnti & Miller, 2002; Wright, Horn, & Sanders, 1997. The Effect of Teacher Coaching on Instruction and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence. To learn more about our findings, read the full report. 2 Kraft, M.

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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it’s not just about the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. His analysis indicates that low math performance is common throughout U.S. More analysis is needed to see if there’s a stronger link between school closures and test score changes. These were the lowest U.S. More than a third of U.S.

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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

It uses a classroom contract to keep the discussion respectful and encourages close-text analysis. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 2003, 47, pp. Socratic circles can be a useful way to dig into a topic and discuss it at a deeper level than the usual class discussion. Affinity Mapping.

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Research-based Strategies for Teaching Sight Words

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These include: Contextual Analysis: Rawlins & Invernizzi underscores the significance of deriving sight words from familiar texts. This counters the common practice of rote drill with flashcards, which she finds ineffective due to the lack of context and sound-to-spelling analysis. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 57(3), 807–810.

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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

The zone of proximal development in Vygotsky’s analysis of learning and instruction. The role of purposeful work goals in promoting meaning in life and in schoolwork during adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Research, 24, 423– 452. doi:10.1177/0743558409336749. Chaiklin, S. Kozulin, B. Gindis, V. Ageyev, & S. Miller (Eds.),

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Teacher Burnout- Symptoms, Causes, and Strategies to Prevent It

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A meta-analysis for exploring the diverse causes and effects of stress in teachers. Journal of School Psychology, 53, 337-357. Mearns, J., & & Cain, J. Relationships between teachers' occupational stress and their burnout and distress: Roles of coping and negative mood regulation expectancies. Montgomery, C., & & Rupp, A.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”