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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Including families in the planning of these events can help them be invested in the classroom.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

Read on to learn what toxic stress is and how it can impact a student’s physical and mental well-being. Then, discover tactics for spotting and preventing toxic stress in your classroom. More students in your classroom may be suffering from toxic stress than you know. How to Use Stress Management Techniques in School.

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How well does your state support children with dyslexia?

The Hechinger Report

Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. Department of Education.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. In 2010, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics with a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as earning an ELL (English Language Learner) endorsement for K-8 students.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

edWeb.net

We talk a lot about the fact that kids are coming into our schools and they know how to use technology, but they don’t know how to use it in a productive and effective way,” said Smith, “And it’s our job to be able to give them those tools so they use them effectively, efficiently, and productively.”. Jamie holds a B.A. About the Host.

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OPINION: How one city removed the police from schools, and why others should follow

The Hechinger Report

When she exited, he followed her back to her classroom with a hand on his gun. They’re often called for minor classroom issues like a student talking back to the teacher or being caught with no hall pass. Also in the halls were four white students, whom the SRO ignored to wait for the student of color outside the bathroom.

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How to Bring Authenticity to Learning that Happens in School

MindShift

Laid out most fully in his 2010 book Making Learning Whole , the idea goes something like this: Let students do something big and useful, from start to finish — perhaps a simplified version, but keep it intact. Imagine, for instance, a classroom art teacher who wants to mount an exhibition of student artwork.

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