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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

When surveying the research , effective teacher professional development is content-focused with active learning, supports job-embedded collaboration, uses models and modeling, provides coaching and expert support, gives opportunities for feedback and reflection, and is of sustained duration (Darling-Hammond). Look at Courses.

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

Edsurge

They were at a family coding event and had been working together to brainstorm an idea for a story, draw it on paper and try out different ways to recreate it using KIBO , a tangible robotics platform programmed using interlocking wooden blocks. He pressed the green triangle on top of the robot to run the program again.

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Using Neuroscience to Launch a Research-Informed School Schedule

Edsurge

Increasing time for students to meet with teachers and their peers during the school day for academic enrichment and healthy socialization. In 2017, the CTTL’s student research fellows began collecting qualitative and quantitative data by surveying the ultimate end users of our daily schedule, the students.

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Increasing digital equity in rural areas

Education Superhighway

Unfortunately, high-speed Internet wasn’t available at Garrison School until 2017. Prior to the 2017-2018 school year, the school received a fixed amount of Internet access every month. It also means the school can finally open its robotics lab this coming year. The challenge. What does 1 Mbps per student mean in practice?

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For Teens Knee-Deep In Negativity, Reframing Thoughts Can Help

MindShift

I can sign up for the photography or robotics club and meet people that way.” Copyright 2017 NPR. This tendency can lead to chronic anxiety, depression and anger, and can interfere with relationships and success in school. To see more, visit [link].

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. A wave of pilot programs appeared in classrooms across the city.

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

The Hechinger Report

While national surveys indicate that adolescent drug use has fallen across the board in recent years, some 1.3 Most classes meet in a large central room that feels part art studio, part living room. Social worker Karin Burke-Lewis meets each student two to three times per week. Limited course offerings. Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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