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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

We are taking the next two weeks–two articles–to answer the questions that should help you as a teacher or administrator decide what type of keyboarding program is best for your school. Week 1 (this article). Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. Is elementary school too early—or too late?

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

Over the next several weeks, I’ll post a wide range of articles to help you integrate keyboarding authentically and rigorously into your classroom curriculum. Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! Utah State University, 2003) is an elementary educator.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

“The parallelism between their play deficiencies, and the objective problems in forming trusting social bonds with others seems very significant,” concluded Brown in a 2018 article. Elementary principals have reported that recess, for example, has a positive impact on academic performance and that students are more focused afterward.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). To read more research-based articles on Teacher Learning, visit the Edutopia website. .

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. Dr. Conner obtained his Bachelor of Arts in elementary education/humanities from Lasell University. Dr. Conner was featured in AASA’s School Administrator magazine for his article entitled What Mentoring Means to a New Superintendent of Color.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Gaggle. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Toca Life Apps and Contextual Therapy

SpeechTechie

Following up on my last post on the "Toca Life" open-ended sandbox-style apps , I recently read a "Clinical Focus" article in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and thought it shed light on how these apps (and others) can be used in context in therapy. I really appreciated the authors' references and examples in this article.