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VHS Learning Earns MSA-CESS Reaccreditation 

eSchool News

Boston – VHS Learning has once again received accreditation from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CESS), a worldwide leader in accreditation and school improvement. VHS Learning has been accredited by MSA-CESS since 2008. VHS Learning has been accredited by MSA-CESS since 2008.

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Principal for a Day at Jackson Elementary

MIND Research Institute

This is an experience where local business leaders and other community members are invited to visit a school, tour classrooms, meet students and teachers, and learn about the great things being done in education. I arrived at Jackson Elementary with a smile on the morning of March 22. The highlight of my day was meeting Ms.

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Prompting for Expectations: Including pre-corrections, which guide students to meet expectations Prompting for expectations involves proactive reminders and guidance to help students meet the expected behavior or academic goals. Student-Centered and Teacher-Centered Classroom Management: A Case Study of Three Elementary Teachers.

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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

The program brings high school students to the campus for half a day, for a tour of the education school and to meet with officials. As we know, white women dominate K-12 teaching, particularly elementary,” says Maureen Kelleher, editorial director at Georgetown University’s FutureEd.

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Educators as Purveyors of Hope

User Generated Education

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). People with learning goals are actively engaged in their learning, constantly planning strategies to meet their goals, and monitoring their progress to stay on track. Gallagher & Lopez, 2008; Snyder et al.,

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. The number of programs is increasing to meet demand from parents and communities, with 180 dual-language public school programs in New York City alone in 2015.

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The Gift of Teacher Time

Digital Promise

In her latest book, Where Teachers Thrive , Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Susan Moore Johnson describes 14 schools studied between 2008 and 2015. They had developed in-house systems for important responsibilities, such as hiring new colleagues, developing curriculum, meeting as teams, and enforcing school-wide norms and rules.

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