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Amidst Opioid Addiction, Plummeting Morale, One Elementary School Reinvents Itself

Edsurge

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. As teachers meet and plan project goals with students, they become partners in learning. In the 2014-2015 school year, our third-graders wanted to improve school lunch.

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Meet the Support Network Addressing Out-Of-School Challenges for Every Student

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Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. And she meets with groups of students during their usual lunch breaks. ROXBURY, Mass. The idea is to make sure no one is falling through the cracks.

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5 Lessons from 2014, A Year in Learning

My Paperless Classroom

So here is a quick reflection on 2014 and the top 5 things I learned in 2014. Meeting with people face to face can make the online collaboration so much more powerful. Without a doubt, 2014 has been a year of collaboration. So here I am at the end of 2014, wondering what the year ahead holds.

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The Limits of Curriculum Choice

Digital Promise

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Starr Sackstein, author of Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students’ Social and Emotional Needs , shares an overview of what is needed so that every student feels respected even as they are given the necessary feedback to improve and level up their learning. (You

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Better Edtech Budgeting: How Yuma Elementary District Makes The Most of Its Money

Edsurge

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. Let’s try meeting all of the needs of our students in math,” Sheppard says. The efforts paid off.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Two!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Klein on "Meeting in the Middle: Avoiding the Exploitative Pitfalls of Global Learning" 10:00pm Amigos Globales/Global Friends - Sindell Perez Fuentes SPOTLIGHT: Globalizing Lessons: Any Standard, Any Subject, or Any School - Michelle Macumber - Learning Center Community Leader SPOTLIGHT: Skyping with the Guided Reflection Model - Dr.