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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. I’ve seen what happens when you don’t have teachers in the classroom. But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools.

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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

Edsurge

On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. It is a perfect inquiry-based tool you can use in your classroom and with your students. He is a 2016 Global Teacher Prize Top Ten Winner. million teachers.

Classroom 174
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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. Six months before she graduates, she is not about to hide her feelings: She hates school.

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

techlearning

Chatterbox offers excellent instruction for language learners—from online tutoring for individuals and groups, including Skype sessions for young students in classrooms around the world, to conversational practice to supplement and accelerate classroom language learning for university students and others who want to learn.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The article is accompanied by a photo of a classroom full of Asian students – as if Asian is not American. “How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom” by The New York Times’ Natasha Singer – through some pretty shady practices, no doubt. “ What will universities look like in 2030?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. ” Via Getting Smart : “Using Robots to Teach Elementary Students About Human Nature.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.”