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Different Ways to Show Learning

A Principal's Reflections

We were also exposed to learning style theory and the many benefits it had on meeting the diverse needs of students. A recent review of the scientific literature on learning styles found scant evidence to clearly support the idea that outcomes are best when instructional techniques align with individuals' learning styles.

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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

If you’ve been in the educational field long enough, you’ve probably come across Fleming’s learning styles theory. For over forty years, researchers have sought to classify how different students learn and what teachers can do to support them. What Are the Four Learning Styles? How would you discover a student’s learning style?

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Listen Now. Enhanced Transcript.

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Curriculum Associates Featured on Inc. Magazine’s 37th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

techlearning

magazine today revealed that Curriculum Associates is number 3,181 on its 37th annual Inc. With a focus on reading and mathematics, the company offers an integrated print and digital solution for K–12 diagnostic assessment and instruction, making blended learning a reality in the classroom. NEW YORK, August 15, 2018— Inc.

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What school librarians make (revisited)

NeverEndingSearch

Back in November of 2010, I wrote a response to a superintendent’s proposed elimination of school libraries in New York State. I am here to ensure that all my students have equitable access to the tools they need to learn and create. I promote learning that is both lifelong and life-wide. It is the center of our school.

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Data, Policies, and Plans for the Journey to Equity

edWeb.net

Access to gifted/talented programs and advanced courses is also unevenly distributed in regard to race, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores reveal similar inequities in regard to student outcomes. Under his leadership, student learning in Riverbank USD improved and opportunities for students have expanded.

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Live Thursday Dec. 16th with Writer Alfie Kohn (note early time)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country''s most outspoken critic of education''s fixation on grades [and] test scores."