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Arts-based Teaching in Elementary Schools

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With efforts like Rhode Island School of Design’s championing of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, the arts remain at the forefront of dialogue about best practices in elementary education). Arts-based Teaching Models in Elementary Schools. Creativity is an essential component of, and spurs innovation.

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

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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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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. Of course we’re supposed to move on, but then you still got people who are not over those historical wounds”: Cultural memory and US youth’s race talk. Everett, S., & Carey, C.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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It deftly, artfully captures just how inundated children — specifically, three girls over the course of one year — are these days, thanks to social media and all the other byproducts of carrying a small computer in your pocket everywhere you go. It would also, of course, improve their lives. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.

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Yet it wasn’t until RTI was funded through the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act in 2004 that more districts seriously began to consider adopting the framework. It is important to note that secondary and elementary assessment systems will be different.

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Summer Learning Programs Struggle — and Devise Solutions — as Staff Shortages Persist

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Entsminger, an elementary school principal outside of Chicago, says his district was not able to serve nearly as many children as usual with its summer program this year, and the reason boils down to staffing. Hathaway founded the program in 2004 to help a few of his students who wanted extra support in math and science. It’s brutal.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

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On paper, Weld North Education is made up of three companies: Edgenuity, a provider of online K-12 courses; Generation Ready, which offers K-12 professional development services; and Imagine Learning, which offers math and literacy software for elementary-grade students.