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Why most schools won’t ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic

Dangerously Irrelevant

school systems to reconsider even a small iota of what they do. Tragically, we continue to see traditional systems of education being shoehorned into virtual or blended delivery systems (tip: having kids complete electronic worksheets from home is not systemic ’transformation’). from McLeod, S., & Dulsky, S.

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Third indication U.S. educational system is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

educational system beginning to decay? American fourth-graders, on average, had worse reading skills than they did five years earlier, in 2011, with scores slipping seven points on a 1,000-point scale. educational system is deteriorating appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Is the U.S.

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The Pivotal Role Movement Plays in Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The concept of brain breaks got me thinking about a growing trend in education – as kids progress through the K-12 system, there is less and less movement. She found that once the breaks were implemented the inappropriate behavior diminished, establishing a functional relationship between breaks and classroom behavior. Adams-Blair H.,

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family and Parent Engagement Strategies You Can Try Families and teachers form a support system for students throughout the school year. Schools can enact strategies to help families overcome systemic barriers like lack of transportation, long or irregular work hours, lack of access to childcare, so they can become more involved.

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How To Sustain Powerful Digital Learning for the Future

Digital Promise

The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools has implemented and advocated for equitable access to technologies to close the digital learning gap since its inception in 2011. The school system, which already offered an online learning academy for grades 9-12 prior to the pandemic, moved to develop an option for younger grades.

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How to Support Teacher Innovation Within a Strict State Accountability System

Edsurge

Far too many policy makers, elected officials and “educrats,” my term for educators who are hellbent on maintaining the status quo, protect this antiquated, broken and egregiously dysfunctional system with life and limb. After weeks of conversation, the group presented me with their suggestions to change our broken system.

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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

Edsurge

But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. Khan’s system does come with an off-putting warning, though, noting that it “makes mistakes sometimes.”

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