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4 Essentials for Every Teacher: How to Design Lessons, Engage Kids and Manage Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Subscribe to the Show Watch the YouTube Version of the Show Gretchen Bridgers – Bio as Submitted Gretchen is a two-time National Board certified elementary school teacher from Charlotte, NC. In 2010, she received her masters degree in Curriculum and Supervision from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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DLEMS 00: Deeper learning in elementary and middle schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. Driving Question What do students, teachers, and leaders do in ‘deeper learning’ elementary and middle schools that is different from their traditional peers? Related Posts Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

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Can ‘Math Therapists’ Make a Dent In America’s Declining Math Performance?

Edsurge

Huinker, who was once Robinsons instructor, argues that math-specific instructional coaches like Robinson are crucial, especially for elementary school students. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. That experience helps Robinson to empathize with those shes coaching.

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Assessments that Work: How to Create Assessments that Help Students Learn More

The CoolCatTeacher

He has been awarded a Leadership-in-Education Award from the Texas House of Representatives; was presented the Mary McLeod Bethune Heritage Award for Education by the NAACP in 2010, the Dr. June James NAACP Education Award in 2016 and the Leadership Legacy Award from the Future Schools Network in 2019.

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One state tried algebra for all eighth graders. It hasn’t gone well

The Hechinger Report

In 2006, a state education bill required for the first time that the states eighth graders take Algebra I, starting in the 2010-11 school year. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade. Department of Education.) Minnesota legislators took notice. Today its about 1.5

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

4] Even though the technology is likely to change from their early school years to the time they start their first career, teaching digital literacy in elementary school is a great way to get students started. Lessons that involve digital citizenship can help a student use technology responsibly well beyond their elementary school years.

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Screen-free students: How Spokane Public Schools is helping kids engage in real life

eSchool News

Forty-one percent of teens with the highest social media usage struggle with mental health issues, and between 2010 and 2020, anxiety among adolescents skyrocketed by 106 percent. The policy prohibits cell phone use in elementary and middle school and limits it to lunch and periods between classes for high school students.