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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. During my career, students and their families have trusted my knowledge and expertise to create opportunities to learn and build community. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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It’s a simple idea: learning as navigation, choosing among concepts and strategies that either pave a path forward or trap you in the puzzle at hand. Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” says Saskia Levy Thompson, a program director at the Corporation’s Education program, where she manages the New Designs to Advance Learning portfolio.

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Teacher tricks: Grading & assessment

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Today we’ll look at grading and assessment, and how technology can assist teachers to streamline the process, as well as extract more valuable information on how students are tracking on their learning pathways. Learning Management Systems : These are a spectacular way to automate and regulate the assessment process.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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We are both pursuing the same goal,” says Sphero CEO Paul Berberian, which he describes as providing students with playful tools that nurture creativity as they learn to use and build with technology. In 2015, Sphero secured a licensing deal with Disney to sell robotic toys modeled after droids from the Star Wars franchise, BB-8 and R2-D2.

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MasteryConnect Cuts 30 Percent of Staff, Brings Co-Founder Mick Hewitt Back as CEO

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MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3 K-12 edtech companies, with $741 million coming in 2015 alone. ( That’s less than half of the $2 billion total raised in 2015. billion in U.S.

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Six Steps to Project Based Learning

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In 2015, the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act signaled the end of one-size-fits-all instruction. The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Project based learning occurs over weeks and, in some cases, months. 1) Essential Question.

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Counselors Couldn’t Keep Up With Our Growing Mental Health Crisis, So Peers Stepped Up

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I was originally hired in 2015, to support the only counselor at our school, which served 500 students at the time. In December 2015, Jessica’s eighth grade year, we launched our peer mentoring program after five months of planning. At Westgate Community School, a K-12 school in Thornton, Colo.,

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