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Blending with the Station Rotation Model

A Principal's Reflections

For me, the journey began back in 2011 when we first introduced the flipped approach at New Milford High School, where I was principal, with resounding success. Over the course of many years, my work with Wells Elementary School provided a foundation that I pull from to this very day.

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Arts-based Teaching in Elementary Schools

EdNews Daily

With efforts like Rhode Island School of Design’s championing of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, the arts remain at the forefront of dialogue about best practices in elementary education). Arts-based Teaching Models in Elementary Schools. Goldberg (2011) advocates teaching about, with, and through the arts.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Reading comprehension and information retention improve when students write about what they read (Graham & Herbert, 2011). Review of Educational Research , 90(2), 179-226. Shanahan, T.

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How to use Notion

The CoolCatTeacher

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Lumio: Making Review and Practice Easy

The CoolCatTeacher

In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. . Reviewing course content requires that students reflect on the content. El Bojairami and Driscoll (2019) found a positive effect on course content reflections of engineering students. On the Fly Editing.

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Empowering girls with STEM education to build tomorrow’s tech industry

eSchool News

Some progress has been made–for example, the number of women earning science and engineering bachelor’s degrees increased by 34 percent between 2011 and 2020–yet there’s still much ground to be made up.

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How to Know You Make a Difference #LoveTeaching

The CoolCatTeacher

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