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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

How to sign up for classroom or field trip volunteering opportunities. You may even want to start a Facebook group or Twitter account for parents. [11] 11] If you can figure out how to reach the majority of parents early in the school year, you’re more likely to promote long-term parent engagement. The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi.

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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

5] You can then continue to send messages through text or social media groups, too. For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. Avoid using educational jargon, which can confuse parents who aren’t as familiar with elementary teaching terms.[7]. How to Keep Family Engagement Strong After Parent-Teacher Conferences.

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5 things to know about high-dosage tutoring

eSchool News

Research shows that tutoring is one of the most effective ways to increase academic achievement, including among students from lower socio-economic households–one of the groups disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about how to implement high-dosage tutoring programs in schools and districts.

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teachers don’t have time to teach each child how to do this, so, much of keyboard learning is done by self-directed games. Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! So, at what age and how should we deliver keyboarding instruction? Dr. William L. Morgan (Ph.D.,

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.”

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Research-based Strategies for Teaching Sight Words

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Grapheme-phoneme correspondence [ 10 ] is the understanding of how letters or groups of letters represent the sounds of a language. Group Similar Words: Group sight words with similar patterns together. Graphophonemic awareness: Development in elementary students. Flashcards: Use flashcards to review sight words.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

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 ). Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work.

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