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9 Ideas for Ending the School Year Well

The CoolCatTeacher

So, I adopted this approach in my own classroom and so has today's guest fourth-grade teacher, Alana Stanton. Over the last seventeen years, Alana has created some traditions in her classroom and today she shares them. She currently writes for her blog, More Than A Lesson where she shares the stories of her classroom and her heart.

Course 417
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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

Edsurge

Now, having gone to the trouble to design course resources that can be accessed remotely and feeling accustomed to turning on a webcam in the classroom, he has continued to embrace a teaching practice that is known as “HyFlex,” a portmanteau of hybrid and flexible. Students discovered the flexibility,” he says, “and now they're demanding it.”

Course 138
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A Skilled Services Career Might Be The Best Economic Option For Many Students

EdNews Daily

Then, in 2006, lawmakers revised the act, choosing instead to call it the Carl D. In fact, many CTE programs lend themselves well to STEM-related careers, and students can later continue their education with a four-year degree. Between 2006 and 2014, the number of students enrolled has dipped by 11.4 Back in 1984, the Carl D.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

He’s held a teaching credential in the state since 2006, based on passing the state’s biological sciences and geosciences teaching exams, state records show. To make up the gap, states are putting teachers without a strong science background in front of classrooms. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom.

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

techlearning

Reeves, 2006) Being able to identify the “go-to” or most trusted person in a network to leverage their relationships with others to effect change is more likely to result in change than working from the superintendent down, although you need both approaches. We take a team approach, but our mindfulness initiative stems from the top.

Survey 46
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How Hydroponic School Gardens Can Cultivate Food Justice, Year-Round

MindShift

Quigley is one of dozens of students at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School who in the past year built a high-tech, high-yield farm inside a third-floor classroom. The survey did not ask if gardens were traditional or hydroponic. For example, a 2006 study of efforts to address food insecurity in Burlington, Vt.,

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