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Secondary Teachers Transform Their Practice

Battelle for Kids

3) It is common knowledge among secondary English teachers that many students don't read assigned texts, often relying on SparkNotes to successfully complete assignments and prepare for assessments. Gallagher, 2003, p. Why is this happening?

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PBL, Special Needs, and the Secondary Classroom

Battelle for Kids

Driving Question: How can we secondary teachers design PBL instruction so that ALL learners succeed? MNTHS) in Manor, TX is a Project Based Learning (PBL) public school that first opened in August 2007. Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 3. I was a first year science teacher when I started that year.

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College Students Are Spending Less On Course Materials—And More On Tech

Edsurge

And it’s part of a steady decline in spending on course materials since the 2007-08 school year, when students were coughing up $701 on course materials. This year’s spending on textbooks and other course materials represents a 26 percent fall from the previous year, when students spent $456, or $53 per course. What’s driving the decline?

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6 findings to inform your state’s principal preparation

eSchool News

The report updates a prior 2007 study, Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World, led by Darling-Hammond. It also examines survey results and statewide policies to understand the extent to which principals have access to high-quality learning opportunities and the role of policies in increasing access.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2) .

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Researchers have pointed to the introduction of smartphones — the iPhone was introduced in 2007 — and the rise of social media as the culprit. Many of the other measures continued on an upward trajectory, but teens started reporting that they were growing increasingly anxious and depressed. What happened then?

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing. Recent survey data shows that 90 percent of secondary students are part of a 1:1 device program. He talked about how he dropped in on a calligraphy class, and from that knowledge he created the idea of different types of computer fonts some 10 years later.

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