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Value-Added Schools

A Principal's Reflections

What I would like to discuss are ways that schools can provide increased value to students based on changes to the learning culture. A school can and should provide a meaningful learning experience for students. Kids should want to come to school and learn. Value-added schools: Focus more on learning as opposed to grades.

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Why Teacher Self-Care Matters and How to Practice Self-Care in Your School

Waterford

Because teaching is such an intensive job, educators can greatly benefit from learning about and practicing self-care. Now that you’ve learned why self-care can be one of the best stress management strategies for teachers , it’s important to find ways to incorporate it into your daily life. Public Health, 123(11), November 2009, pp.

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David, Goliath, and the Future of the U.S. K-12 OER Movement

Doug Levin

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S.

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Waterford Gets $20M+ Grant for Online Preschool. Its Critics Are Not Happy.

Edsurge

Despite the momentum recently to expand early learning opportunities to children, there are still millions of people who face barriers to that access, specifically in rural and low-income areas,” she says. That’s where Upstart comes in.” Audacious declined to comment on the contents of the letter.)

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. I feel like they learn more,” she said.

Learning 111
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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Can you describe what this is going to look like and what you hope to learn? This is a piece of hard data relating to equity. Joyce : Thanks, Deb.

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Announcing October 21st Mini-Conference: "Libraries as Community Anchors"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He was founding chairman of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition, founded in 2009, as a DC-based advocacy organization promoting government policies and programs to assure gigabit fiber to libraries and other community anchor institutions(CAI’s).