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The 4Cs: How esports promotes student development

eSchool News

4 tips for creating an elementary esports program For more news on esports, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub I first started trying to get an esports program at my school in 2011. You have students who are marketing the event to their peers and classmates, you have students working as team statisticians.

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

Encourage families to attend school events or set up playdates with their students’ friends.[3] 10] Finding ways to encourage positive communication between parents and teachers should be a focus for any back to school event. Make sure to keep parents updated on school events. Child Development, 82(1), January/February 2011, pp.

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?Teachers Can Now Use IBM’s Watson to Search for Free Lesson Plans

Edsurge

IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. The tech giant began last year by pulling in more than 100 top-level education leaders for a daylong event demoing the tech. Litow says. If you could focus in on math, that would be the moonshot.”

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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other world events, teachers and families may all be more overwhelmed than ever. For elementary students, options for experiential learning may be limited. Child & Youth Care Forum, Jan 2011, 40(4), pp. Weissberg, R.P., Durlak, J.A., Dymnicki, A.B., Taylor, R.D., Buckley, P., and Doyle, E.

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Live Event Wednesday - EPA WaterSense/WasteWater Curriculum Materials

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This Wednesday, March 2nd, at 12 noon US Pacific Time / 3 pm US Eastern the EPA WaterSense and WasteWater Education will present a free hour seminar to introduce home school, elementary and high school teachers to the curriculum materials available from USEPA to promote March 14-20, 2011 "Fix A Leak Week!" No registration is required.

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The Reading League Journal – The Perfect Storm: Mississippi’s Momentum for Improving Reading Achievement

ExcelinEd

A perfect storm is a “combination of events or circumstances creating an unusually bad situation” (“Perfect Storm,” 2020). In 2011, 78% of 4th graders scored below proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Go big or go home. Mississippi was once in the middle of a literacy crisis.

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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

On Friday November 4 th , over 350 guests and 140 volunteers gathered at the OC Fair & Event Center to join our inaugural Taste of Math event. As part of the evening's events, we awarded three very special partners who have made a huge impact on our organization as well as math education.