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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

Before you know it, parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner. It’s easy to let the conference season catch us by surprise, but did you know that parent-teacher conferences are one of the best ways to boost parent engagement? Encouraging Parental Involvement Before Conference Season.

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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

The “Open Middle” math problem format is NOT talking about middle school math, although it applies to middle, high school, elementary, and even college math just the same. Sometimes the problem is that students aren’t excited by the problems. However, math can be exciting.

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Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers

The Hechinger Report

She’d been teaching Spanish to elementary and middle school students, but he felt she was ready to take charge of a classroom of her own. Wilson conferred with Anderson, confirmed that she had submitted all the requisite documents and then pushed back on the state, without success. “It Paul Wilson, principal of a K-8 public school.

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Live Thursday Dec. 9th with Julie Young from Florida Virtual School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is a frequent national conference speaker and has played an important role in charting the course of virtual K-12 education. In 2003, she was inducted into the USDLA “Hall of Fame.” In 2003, her school was named as one of the WebSmart Top 50 organizations by Business Week Magazine.

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‘It’s really hard to parent from behind bars’

The Hechinger Report

She worked physically demanding jobs until 2003 when she was injured, went back to school for office administration and found a job working for an attorney. Growing up in Texas decades earlier, she struggled too. She married at 14, had five children, endured abusive relationships and spent a few years in prison on drug charges.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Many schools have reduced or even eliminated recess for elementary school children, and several have cut back on free play and play-based learning in the early grades such as kindergarten and first grade (Zygmunt-Fillwalk & Bilello, 2005). Unfortunately, time for free play within school hours has also declined.

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May 31 - Interview with James Bosco on Digital Media and Participatory Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1961. At the national and international level, Bosco was the 1997 chairperson for the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) National Conference and he served as the chair of the CoSN board in 1998.