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7 tips and ideas to make the eclipse engaging for students

eSchool News

This upcoming eclipse event is an exciting opportunity to incorporate phenomenon-based learning into your instruction and engage your students through inquiry. Here are some tips for making the most out of this rare occasion as you study it with your students. The data above were collected in Oregon during the 2017 total eclipse.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

0:15 Big Picture Stats 0:54 Andrea Yon's story 1:24 World Literacy Foundation study of the economic and social cost of illiteracy Sponsor: Today’s sponsor, Literal is an app to help students in grades 6-12 engage with reading. If this event has passed, find another online event and join in. Stream by clicking here.

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Your 2017 ISTE Cheatsheet Is Here—and Jam-Packed

Edsurge

We’ve put together this quick cheatsheet of the keynotes, workshops and events the EdSurge team is most excited about. The event, now in its 11th year, has no set schedule, and will be hosted by Learning Revolution’s Steve Hargadon. The event is hosted by Chicago educator Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon. Not sure where to start?

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Texas’ Corpus Christi Independent School District Expands Partnership with Discovery Education by Selecting New, TEKS-Aligned Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in Science

eSchool News

CHARLOTTE, NC —Texas’ Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education , which has supported student learning across the school system since 2017. Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide.

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May Round-up: Online Book Study for Literacy Essentials #litessentials

Reading By Example

For the second year in a row, this blog has facilitated an online book study. In 2017, we read Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change, 2nd edition by Jennifer Allen (Stenhouse, 2016). The following links go to the five most recent posts from May for the study: Building Trust. Can I contribute to this study?

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How to Recognize and Understand Conspiratorial Thinking

edWeb.net

These stressors have led many to believe in unfounded explanations of events, situations, or conspiracy theories. While adults are highly susceptible to conspiratorial thinking, the most vulnerable population, our students, make decisions and develop mindsets about events and situations that may not give an accurate picture.

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The Fight Against ‘Fake News’ in the Classroom Gets a Boost

Edsurge

The NLP, which most often works with teachers of social studies, English-language arts, history and the humanities, developed a condensed curriculum on news literacy that teachers could use with students, Miller says. The journalists were one part of that.

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