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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

The books literally are broken into text message-sized chunks making reading easier, plus Literal has classroom management features for teachers. Give people “book talks” and book tastings. Resource: See Penny Kittle's “ Book Love: Developing Depth Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers 9:02 Idea 5: Challenge.

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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2011, the Dow Jones News Fund honored Sackstein as a Special Recognition Adviser and 2012 Education Updated recognized her as an outstanding educator. You can find all of the books here: [link] ) Sackstein co-moderates #sunchat as well as contributes to #NYedChat. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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How to Know You Make a Difference #LoveTeaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Christie Thompson – Bio as Submitted Christie Thompson, School Counselor A native Arkansan, I relocated to Sherman, Texas, to begin my 20-year teaching career and was awarded New Secondary Teacher of the Year for the district. I then taught English in Plano ISD and earned my Master’s degree in English from SMU.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. I feel like even if the print books are a tad more expensive, they’re worth it, in my opinion,” Mullins said. “I billion to $3.3

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Breaking the Mold – How VR Can Help Teachers

Veative

In her book Teaching, Learning, and Visual Literacy , Billie Eilam states that any attempt to change, reform, and improve education must be imbued with the intimate knowledge of the concrete, contemporary realities of educational practices. Norton & Company, 2018. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 27 (1), 2011.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” Nellie Mae passed on the money to the Portland-based Great Schools Partnership, which used it to coordinate The New England Secondary School Consortium, a coalition advocating for proficiency-based diplomas, among other things.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: Definitely worth a listen.