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Building Connections Between Home and School through Family-Teacher Partnerships

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How to Create Opportunities for Family-Teacher Partnerships The importance of partnering with families in schools is clear. Click here for more ideas on how to build family and community engagement in your school, from homework and after-school clubs to onsite family resource centers and more. Wairimu, M.J., Macharia, S.M.,

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Increasing Equity Through Student, Family, and Community Engagement

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One specific implementation of this approach is the Tomorrow Bus, a mobile innovation lab that goes to district schools and provides a range of hands-on learning activities and supplemental instruction, with older students participating in the guidance and support of younger students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

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In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. You can personalize learning just fine without technology.

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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

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The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. In June 2016, the Alliance, in partnership with the U.S. A former teacher, Sara holds a B.A. About edWeb.net.

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New, free digital citizenship curriculum helps students become responsible tech users

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The higher grade levels have more complex discussions of the factors that can lead to bullying, different forms of bullying, and how to de-escalate harmful situations. The lessons at each level encourage students to be upstanders and teach them how to address situations as they occur. Join the Community.

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Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching

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She is the author of Weeds & Seeds: How to Stay Positive in the Midst of Life ’ s Storms and Promises and Possibilities: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Medha Tare has more than ten years of experience conducting applied research in the learning sciences. Army for six years and attained the rank of Staff Sergeant.

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Going Schoolwide with Reading Engagement: How We Got to Now

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For two years, we received training in how to teach a variety of text features as readers and writers, such as topic sentences, supporting details, and transitions. Staff members who have spouses teaching in other schools sometimes mention that the student writing produced is comparable with secondary level work.