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How Inclusive Education Positively Impacts All Students : A drop in the ocean – by Sujatha Sriram

ViewSonic Education

Why Inclusion in the Classroom is Necessary As the Right to Education Act 2008 states, every child has the right to education. In my experience, activities incorporating sen sory breaks, emotional freedom techniques ( EFT ) , and brain exercises are great ways to build inclusion in the classroom, as they can be applied to all students.

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5 critical ingredients in a school safety plan

eSchool News

As the halfway point approaches, there have already been 69 shootings this school year, up from 18 in all of 2008. Conduct tabletop exercises of real-life scenarios. There are many reasons for this. First, school shootings have increased in frequency and scope.

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New ‘Horizon Report’ Looks Back on What Past Predictions Got Wrong

Edsurge

The value of the Horizon Report and the value in any foresight exercise is not to perfectly predict what’s going to happen, but it’s really to recognize that every choice that we make today is an implicit bet on the future.” Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause.

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Teaching and reading literature in the digital age

Neo LMS

Reading the report (now 17 years-old) is an exercise in digital whimsy; an almost amusing retrospective on how institutions of the day regarded digital media: “Reading a book requires a degree of active attention and engagement. Not only was reading declining, but the decline was accelerating, most prominently among 18-34 year-olds.

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A Tiny Thanks Goes a Long Way — in Helping Students Forge Social-Emotional Connections

Edsurge

Jennifer Saarinen, teacher at Kickemuit Middle School Fauteux, who started at Leadership in 2008 as a math teacher, found he was spending just as much time teaching social-emotional competencies as he was teaching math. She says that the exercises help students connect with peers who they normally don’t interact much with. “It

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Instructure Co-Founder Goes After Digital Courseware With His Next Edtech Startup

Edsurge

That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He Among her wishes is that the company continues to grow its content library, and add a graphing feature to support more types of math exercises. He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.)

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

Back to school crafts, get-to-know-you activities, and team building exercises are all great ways to encourage a friendly classroom environment. Education Digest, September 2008, 74(1). One of the most common predictors of difficulties for students in transitioning back to school life is a lack of friends.[2] Retrieved from education.cu-portland.edu:

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