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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

He created the #ObserveMe movement, wrote the book Open Middle Math is president of Grassroots Workshops and co-founder of the website [link].

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

The number of master’s degrees alone that are being conferred by universities is up by 66 percent since 2000 , and has tripled since 1970. The number of all-important graduate school applications from abroad is down for the second year in a row, according to the Council of Graduate Schools, after increasing every year since 2003.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Motivation in Your Students

The CoolCatTeacher

You can even coordinate volunteer schedules, donations, and parent-teacher conferences. Larry’s book: Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges. Larry Ferlazzo began teaching in 2003 after working as a community organizer for nearly twenty years. You can share pictures and links.

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What resources would you suggest for professional book studies on reading instruction?

Reading By Example

Conferring with Readers (Serravallo & Goldberg, Heinemann, 2017). Reading Essentials (Routman, Heinemann, 2003). The Comprehension Experience (Hammond & Nessel, Heinemann, 2011). From Striving to Thriving (Harvey & Ward, Scholastic, 2017). Minds Made for Stories (Newkirk, Heinemann, 2014).

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

Edsurge

So I connected with people who run the Learning and the Brain conference and began to attend. My first book was in 2003 (1*), and that book was all about connecting research with effective teaching. And in that book I launched what I called the Brain-Targeted Teaching model. There's so much more acceptance.

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Register Now for the Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're getting close to our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Additional information will be sent with the final conference information after registration.

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Rethinking How Scholarship Works at MLA17

ProfHacker

Friday at the Modern Language Association conference, I’ll be presiding at a session entitled “ That’s Not How Scholarship Works! Each of these works of scholarly making represents a foray into an emerging digital edge — for instance, Web frames and forms in 1998 , digital video in 2003 , and modal interfaces in 2012.