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 Minnesota’s Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Public Schools’ New Partnership Powers the Creation of Dynamic Digital Learning Environments Supporting Science Education 

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Pivot, which  joined the Discovery Education family of services  in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy. The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight. About the Presenters.

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Lexia Learning Launches Customer Advisory Board to Deepen Educator Insights, Relationships, and Collaboration

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Dr. Mary Grace is the assistant superintendent for education services at Anaheim Elementary School District in California. Marie Morse is the elementary manager of school leadership & instruction at Worcester Public Schools in Massachusetts. Previously, she was the principal of Union Hill School Elementary in the district.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

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It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. McGhee says.

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

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Creating a digital presence is more critical than ever before and it is best accomplished with local needs in mind. High School Crediting Sources Administrators Research Tools Librarians Book Awards & Lists Elementary Home Middle School Newsroom. Divided into two sections, WA Digital TeachKit. We welcome your suggestions.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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EdSurge analyzed data from the state report card on every elementary school in the first personalized learning implementation cohort. One of the major components of this reform was enacted in 2012 when the district received $19.3 Schools like Memminger Elementary had as few as 8.9 Graphic credit: Jenny Abamu.

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Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Distributed Practice

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being able to recall the studied information), but there has been some interesting recent work showing the utility of distributed practice for higher-order learning. Haley Vlach and colleagues found that distributed lessons improved elementary school children’s ability to generalize their learning about food chains to new biomes.

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