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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

The CoolCatTeacher

Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. eSpark is free forever for teachers.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. It could be years before complete national data is available, Roza said. What’s behind the apparent imbalance? Follow the money.

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Tic Tack Toe in the Blended Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

The other day I was conducting some learning walks with the administrative team at Wells Elementary School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD). Unlike our learning walks in the past, the teachers at Wells Elementary did not know I was going to be in the building on this particular day.

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Science-backed scalable tools improve student mental health

eSchool News

Schools and colleges can work with a trusted third party to host the survey on the third party’s server, to ensure student confidence in their data remains unassociated with their academic records. Mental Health Screening and Academic Outcomes in Elementary School.” Where are we, and where do we go now? link] Belfer, M. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01855.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). GPT models are trained on large amounts of text data and are able to generate natural language text that is coherent and grammatically correct. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues.

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PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020

The Hechinger Report

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. How the last recession affected higher education.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Then the 2008 recession slashed school art budgets even more. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. Schools with low test scores felt pressure to devote more time to reading and math.

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