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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When I facilitate training sessions on playlists, I use a backward design approach to guide teachers through the process (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). Students get to make key decisions about their learning and enjoy a higher degree of autonomy when working on a choice board.

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5 Ways Online Learning Can Open Doors For All Students

EdNews Daily

I am presently working with an M.Ed In 2005, Dr. Bennett was selected as the Polk County Teacher of the Year. I also always encourage students to develop mentors in their lives, those who they can turn to and gain godly wisdom. Can you share a favorite story about the program? student who lives in Puerto Rico.

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10 edtech experts you should follow

Hapara

After helping teachers transition to online learning during the pandemic, she began writing about her experiences, including a chapter on online learning in Like No Other School Year. She also wrote a full guide to online and digital learning, A Teacher’s Guide to Online Learning. .

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Coping with COVID in the Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

She graduated with a BS in Education in 2005 and set out to teach in the gorgeous green Pacific Northwest, where she and her husband lived. Over Spring Break we set up Google Classroom pages, learned how to do Zoom, and created packets of papers for students’ families to pick up and drop off outside the school weekly.

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How to Work Remotely When Your Office Closes for Coronavirus — Or Any Time.

Edsurge

at least half-time grew 115 percent between 2005 and 2017. I am presentable if my president, provost or a student wants to have an impromptu video conversation. Humanizing remote work is just as important as humanizing online learning, but more on that later! Census Bureau and U.S. no T-shirts or pajamas).

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. With only two days a week to present new material, algebra I teacher Eliza Pierce has had to skim — the class isn’t diving into the really hard problems, she said. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning.

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