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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.” The post How to do online learning well?

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How to boost math skills in the early grades

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It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. In the past few years, researchers have begun exploring how to take advantage of that powerful preschool bump, especially in math, while also ensuring students who didn’t go to preschool could catch up. and Guam, poured $7.6

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How to Boost Math Skills in the Early Grades

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It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. In the past few years, researchers have begun exploring how to take advantage of that powerful preschool bump, especially in math, while also ensuring students who didn’t go to preschool could catch up. and Guam, poured $7.6

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

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Then in 2010, after two years of research, Sanborn implemented a district-wide shift. Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

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Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. But we do.”.

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The Benefit Of Making The Curricular More Like The Extracurricular

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Even in today’s age of standardized testing and emphasis on academic standards, perhaps even because of this recent emphasis, educators are increasingly aware of the need to nurture students’ complete development. Music, drama, and other arts should be integrated into daily academic work. by Mike Anderson.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

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In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. million in 2010) and a Race to the Top grant ($16.6

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