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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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To Meet Students’ Needs! Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased. What Do Educators Want? Educational Technology Support!

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Both Ruiz and Perez say these stats reflect hundreds of compelling individual student success stories.

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A video game makes math and English classes a full-body experience

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The games can also be customized to meet several state and Common Core standards. Early grade students may practice math vocabulary and learning to count, while older students practice math operations, language and vocabulary skills, and sentence structures and spelling. Although the Kinems program has been used in U.S.

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Canoe as the Classroom: Cultivating Culturally Responsible Navigators and Leaders

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These hands-on activities align with Common Core State Standards as well as the Next Generation Science Standards. In 2017, our school population, of a little over 100 students, mirrors the community which we serve: our K-5 student population is over 70% Native Hawaiian and more than 65% qualify for free-and-reduced lunch.

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Eight Ways To Teach Climate Change In Almost Any Classroom

MindShift

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. “It is our intention to make our students engaged citizens,” Fisher says. Before the Flood has an action page and an associated curriculum.

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Why Podcasting Is #Trending Since 'Serial' and Why Your Class Should Be Doing It

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Listen to this example to hear how students used their voices to debunk myths and stereotypes about modern life on Native American reservations: Creating Podcasts in the Classroom The process of creating podcasts addresses many important 21st-century skills and competencies, including communication, critical thinking, creativity and collaboration.

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