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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Then, we’ll provide a few strategies for improving your cultural competency and even a starter list of diverse books to include in your classroom library or curriculum. For students from underrepresented backgrounds, culturally responsive teaching strategies can help them feel more comfortable in the classroom and improve school success.

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

In this article, we’ll go over what differentiated instruction is and how using this learning strategy can provide your students with the resources they need to succeed. Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. What is Differentiated Instruction?

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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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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. Each year I share my predictions about these trends. Here’s a look at my 2023 predictions.) In reflecting on this year of AI, I, too, have been connecting the dots.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2007 $273,100,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click. For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement. In 2007, Thomson’s higher-ed publishing division was acquired for $7.75 Estimated revenue for the U.S.

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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

Edsurge

Odd as his presence may have seemed, it was not out of the ordinary for the Church, which first devised a social media strategy around 2010. In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. (Think “social media director” for the Catholic Church.) I was lucky.