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Epic Effective Classroom Decoration and Design Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Build your Personal Learning Network (PLN) by adding these experts and resources to your social media accounts. Classroom Caboodle’s elementary Classroom Layout.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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(Updated) The Armed Attacker: A Rare But Catastrophic Event at the Library?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

New attacks at an elementary school in Texas, a grocery store, and just recently, a factory in Maryland, show us this disturbing trend of mass shootings is continuing in the wrong direction. Social media postings and messages about our libraries or our employees need to be analyzed. Steve Albrecht I posted this Library 2.0

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

We also have 16 RESAs, which are Regional Educational Service Agencies, and only four of them have someone who has social studies in their title. When the social studies standards changed in 2015 – 2016, we needed a way to support teachers throughout Georgia without having specific district or RESA social studies specialists to do that.

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

We also have 16 RESAs, which are Regional Educational Service Agencies, and only four of them have someone who has social studies in their title. When the social studies standards changed in 2015 – 2016, we needed a way to support teachers throughout Georgia without having specific district or RESA social studies specialists to do that.

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Take Charge of Your Learning with edWeb.net

edWeb.net

edWeb hosts professional learning communities and free webinars on topics that can have the most impact on education. edWeb’s professional learning communities are an ecosystem that provides free live webinars, online discussions, live chats, archived resources, and continuing education certificates.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - It's All About the GEC (GlobalEdCon) - Amazing Keynotes - Announcing the Student Technology Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Announcing the 2015 Student Technology Conference. We are excited to announce the 2015 Student Technology Conference , a student-directed global conversation about technology in education. This free, online event will be held on Saturday, January 31st, 2015 , and will feature keynote speakers and crowdsourced presentations by students.