MindShift

DECEMBER 31, 2018

More than 1,000 educators, from elementary teachers to university professors, responded to NPR’s callout with stories about how they incorporate the Harry Potter series into their curriculum and classrooms. Changing how some classrooms look — and feel. This year marks their third year doing an all-encompassing Harry Potter theme.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 27, 2013

On Friday I was looking pensively at my boxed sets of the Living Books CD-ROM collection in my school library. Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. I am so glad though that that kind of creativity and artistry has come back to the consumer.the student, and the school library!

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

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 ). Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed. 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. The engineering model is asking personalized learning to introduce a kind of foreign object into the classroom, and the interaction between teachers and students can be a bit diminished. And I would say Amplify is increasingly a curriculum company.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

The award-winning classroom teachers at my table wondered too. The key mission is to provide a professional learning community where librarians can leverage technology knowledge and expertise to improve school library programs, increase access to information, and foster strong teaching and learning environments in a connected world.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 11, 2011

Time to beg, cajole, tease, torture (audibly), and plead to get our Library Media materials back. Some of my kids might not return a book because they LOVE it and they can''t buy it to keep for their personal libraries. It was a nonfiction book on display in the library that was near their editing Macintosh. And, That''s OK!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Jaisalmer, India — Once a year, history lecturer Vijay Kumar Ballani and his colleagues go door-to-door in this rural village, imploring parents to send their children to a cinderblock complex that lacks classroom space, bathrooms and desks. Inside a classroom at a government school where there aren’t enough desks. A good life’.

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MindShift

MAY 13, 2015

One recent Friday, Fernandez covered his classroom with photos of Latino, African-American, Asian and other minority adults, all involved in a variety of jobs. Isay began StoryCorps in 2003 after years of producing radio documentaries that relied on dialogues for content. New Jersey State Library).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms. Teachers are restricted to the math problems that Heffernan’s team has uploaded to the ASSISTments library. That could make catching up a lot more cost effective.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Since 2003, Georgia State has raised its graduation rates by 23 percentage points, which adds up to more than $60 million. The ID records included when students entered classroom buildings, returned to the dorm at night, checked out library books or bought a coffee. Renick argues that the data system more than pays for itself.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 31, 2021

I remember as a teacher checking out stacks of professional development books from the library and reading them poolside in the summer over my break and creating new activities to do with my kids. . Even after I left the classroom and started doing instructional coaching, teaching was still my hobby. My focus became broader, I guess.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

All agree, however, that media literacy is an important component of learning -- whether as its own focus or a cross-curricular literacy woven deeply into every classroom. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 24, 2016

These ideas were on my mind when working with a client who a) could use a dose of engagement and b) needs support around the idea of using strategies in the classroom. Later, I will be able to duplicate and edit this comic to promote generalization to other levels in the app as well as, of course, more importantly, classroom contexts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day. Johnson said that much of that money went to one-time startup costs, such as stocking the library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!),

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. Cultivate a mindset on using new tech apps, invaluable during the pandemic: Google Classroom, Google Drive, Kahoot!, Upgrading HVAC systems and roofs and windows.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom . In their book about the research, The Political Classroom , Hess and McAvoy argue that schools, in order to fulfill their democratic mission, should be political (though not partisan). All around, classroom political discussions can be fraught with minefields.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Known as “America’s Favorite Teacher,” Stephen is responsible for creating the first edible classroom in the world, which he has evolved into the National Health, Wellness and Learning Center.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." Via Mark Guzdial’s Computing Education Blog : “University CS graduation surpasses its 2003 peak, with poor diversity.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Ithaka S+R and OCLC Research launch project to examine how universities and their libraries are changing.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

Still, none of the school’s staff are bilingual or immigrants, and only two taught English as a Second Language previously, although almost all had English learners in their classrooms. The two schools share the gym, cafeteria and library. as a refugee from Cameroon in 2003. Here the teachers slow down. Here we have respect.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” But they pass through innumerable hands before they ever reach a classroom. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Triangulate: Try to verify the information in multiple sources, including traditional media and library databases. Frank Baker on libraries and media literacy. What exactly are you reading?

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The burden of proof that schools and libraries are being offered a competitive price falls on the applicants themselves. Who has benefited?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We also use a lot of maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Good Bye Lenin! ” (2003, Germany, directed by Wolfgang Becker)—Black comedy with a semi-romantic storyline that is easily the best teaching device for explaining the Cold War in Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Brazilian crime drama spanning two decades.

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