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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

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How Is Parent Empowerment Different From Family Involvement? You may already be familiar with parent involvement and engagement, or listening to and working with parents in the classroom. When parents involve themselves in the classroom, for example, their students are more likely to express self-confidence and a motivation to learn.[11]

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How to Use the Dual Capacity-Building Framework to Strengthen Family Empowerment

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One study even found that when teachers focus on parent involvement, student achievement in the entire classroom improves.[14] Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya. Child Development, May-June 2010, 81(3), pp. El Nokali, N.E., Bachman, H.J.,

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

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In this article, we’ll go over what differentiated instruction is and how using this learning strategy can provide your students with the resources they need to succeed. Then, we’ll provide a few ideas for differentiating your classroom instruction and show you how Waterford curriculum can help you provide personalized reading instruction.

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Building Connections Between Home and School through Family-Teacher Partnerships

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You may already be familiar with family engagement , or listening to and working with families in the classroom. When their families are involved in the classroom, students are more likely to express self-confidence and a motivation to learn.[1] Child Development , 2010, 81(3), pp. What are Family-Teacher Partnerships?

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

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Classrooms in the United States are more diverse—culturally and linguistically—than ever before.[15] Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities.

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Edtech Incubators are Fading. Here’s What Will Replace Them.

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That’s so 2010. Then there were the former educators who wanted to take ideas that had worked in their classroom and scale them for tens of thousands or millions of students. Edtech startup incubators? That’s the conclusion reached by Barbara (“Bobbi”) Kurshan, a long-time veteran of the education technology world.

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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

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Odd as his presence may have seemed, it was not out of the ordinary for the Church, which first devised a social media strategy around 2010. In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. (Think “social media director” for the Catholic Church.)