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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

I also know that that I too have a lot to learn, even though I’ve been teaching online since 2006 and have collaborated globally for years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Morningside College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the University of South Dakota.

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5 Ways to Create Relevant Cultures of Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Utility value is purely academic and emphasizes the importance that content has for the students’ future goals — both short-term and long-term goals (Ormrod, 2006). Recently I observed a great example of this during a coaching visit with Kay’s Creek Elementary School in Farmington, UT. Think of it as a school within a school.

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9 Ideas for Ending the School Year Well

The CoolCatTeacher

Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. For more on this, read my 2006 Post About How a Disney Cruise changed my views on education.) Alana Stanton - Bio As submitted. And so, as I'm ending the school year, I try to think of ways I can be present with my students and in the classroom.

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How to Design the Classroom for Effective Education with Michael Cohen

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been collaborating globally since 2006 and have seen the power it has to help children be more accepting of people different from themselves. Empatico uses live video, file sharing, a partner classroom at least 300 miles (or 483 kilometers) away, and specially designed activities.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. Since 2006, it has awarded states more than $900 million to create data systems that can track students over time, and is working on an effort to help states share employment data. Yet many states struggle to answer a basic question: Is career education working?

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STUDENT VOICE: Young Afghan girls are finding ways to keep learning

The Hechinger Report

Like a walking dead”: Being a teenage girl who wants to study under Taliban rule By Mahsa Kosha I was born in 2006. Through the club, we sought to provide the girls with interactive STEM and humanities lessons, in topics such as biology, chemistry and English and engage them in continuing their education, even when they couldn’t go to school.

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