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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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Arkansas’ LISA Academy Renews Partnership with Global Edtech Leader Supporting Student Success

eSchool News

Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The continuation of this partnership helps meet this need, and we are excited for the next phase of this powerful collaboration.” Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros.

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Meet the Mastermind Behind an Innovative, New Way to Teach Math

MIND Research Institute

In elementary school, Matthew Peterson struggled mightily with math. What our approach does is build spatial-temporal reasoning, and then connect that spatial-temporal reasoning to mathematical understanding,” accomplishing what other software companies haven’t. Video produced by NationSwell in partnership with Cisco. By: Sarah Morgan.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Edtech Matchmaking: One Teacher’s Strategies for Choosing Better Technology

Digital Promise

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. Early in my career, I taught elementary students in a computer lab and served as the Technology Teacher Leader (TTL) for the school.

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Fostering a STEM Mindset through Spatial-Temporal Reasoning

MIND Research Institute

Just think of the most innovative companies in the world. 2004), and referenced as a tool to understand DNA structure (Bodner & Shaw, 2004). The jobs of the future are in STEM. Many are powered by scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians. STEM is more than an acronym. Final Thoughts.

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School network takes turbocharged approach to education for refugee students

The Hechinger Report

In 2004, while working as a café owner near Atlanta, she stumbled on a group of boys playing soccer. Emily Futransky, chief academic officer of Fugees Family, the nonprofit that runs the academy, tries to identify instructional methods to help the school meet the educational needs of young refugees.