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5 Ways to Empower Girls

The CoolCatTeacher

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Lynn Colón – Bio As Submitted Lynmara Colón brings the perspective of a teacher, assistant principal, and principal positions she has held since joining education in 2003 to her work in literacy. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.

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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. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Sometimes the problem is that students aren’t excited by the problems.

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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. shakes fist in air in mock fury] So, sniffing a bit with nostalgic ennui, I Googled them and EUREKA! When I first started teaching with these CD''s in elementary school they were a wonderment!

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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. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. And then I ended up Googling them … and it went downhill from there!” The findings highlight the myriad ways young people are using their devices.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. So in 2015, he assigned Harper to visit all of Bethlehem’s elementary schools and find out how children were being taught to read.

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Something NEW is coming to Truth for Teachers…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I always try to pick guests and topics that appeal to a wide range of teaching contexts from K-12, but I do hear from time to time that there’s a bigger focus on elementary teachers, probably because that’s my own background and also there are just more elementary teachers practicing than there are secondary teachers.