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K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

Two years ago, IT Services Director AJ Phillips needed to persuade her school board to purchase new network infrastructure, so she tapped her prior experience as an elementary school teacher and presented a show-and-tell. I told them we were at 1 gig in 2013, we went up to 2 gigs in 2015, and now we need 10 gigs,” Phillips says. “We

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Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension in Your Classroom

Waterford

The early years are vital to a child’s long-term achievement in reading, so teaching vocabulary and content knowledge in preschool and in the elementary grades is essential. 4 Free Downloadable Chapter Books for Elementary Students. Language Magazine. September 2015. They go hand in hand. Rapaport, A. and Nation, K.

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Drones Take Flight as Latest K–12 Learning Tool

EdTech Magazine

The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . Alex writes for CDW’s Tech magazines and websites. by Alexander Slagg.

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Do You Know These Innovative Women Leaders Who Are Founding Schools and Making History?

Edsurge

2015 Broad Fellow. 2015 Pahara Aspen-Fellow. 2015 Michigan Charter School Teacher of the Year. magazine's 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30. magazine’s 30 Entrepreneurs under 30 and in Forbes magazine as one of the country’s top ten most promising women entrepreneurs. Jen McMillan and Kyle Smitley, Detroit Prep.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools.,

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Online Learning During COVID-19

edWeb.net

When Project Tomorrow surveyed students in 2015 about what they envision schools will look like in 2020, one student described school as being the place where there would be more educational videos, online class discussions, online games, and texting between teachers and students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Join the Community.