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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

While the pandemic has undoubtedly played a monumental role in decreasing morale, other factors continuously play a role, such as leadership, mandates, lack of time, systems that are in place, a toxic culture, inadequate pay, or trying to maintain a work-life balance. However, this is easier said than done. & Ryan, R. Newstrom, J.W.

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Why most schools won’t ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic

Dangerously Irrelevant

school systems to reconsider even a small iota of what they do. Tragically, we continue to see traditional systems of education being shoehorned into virtual or blended delivery systems (tip: having kids complete electronic worksheets from home is not systemic ’transformation’). Review of Business, 21 (3/4), 37-41.

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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. As a flurry of schools have shifted to a pass-fail grading system for the current semester, some institutions have balked at the prospect of accepting these non-letter grades. Dude, Where’s My Credit?

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. But what exactly is a competency-based education system, and what role does technology play in the design and support of this system?

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family and Parent Engagement Strategies You Can Try Families and teachers form a support system for students throughout the school year. Schools can enact strategies to help families overcome systemic barriers like lack of transportation, long or irregular work hours, lack of access to childcare, so they can become more involved.

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SCORM: What is it? A Complete Study

Kitaboo on EdTech

SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. Hence, if an eLearning course is published in the SCORM format, an internationally accepted format, it will be recognized by all learning management systems (LMS). This is where SCORM comes into play. What is SCORM?

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PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

The Hechinger Report

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores.

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