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College and career readiness activities

Kathy Schrock

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in December 2018 and is re-posted here with permission. One publication I love to recommend to support this process is the Occupational Outlook Handbook. There are tons of sites on the Web to help students with this process.

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Emphasize Flexibility and Adaptability When Grouping Students

edWeb.net

Base groupings on information: Use pre-tests, formatives assessments, learning styles, and even student interest surveys to divvy up the students. Don’t assess and forget: For groupings based on ability or readiness, don’t just plop the kids together and assume they’re all set. Keep gathering data. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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How Better Teaching Can Help Kids Who Can’t Read

MindShift

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 32 percent of fourth-graders and 24 percent of eighth-graders aren’t reading at a basic level. Harper attended a professional-development day at one of the district’s lowest-performing elementary schools. ’ ” he recalls. Bethlehem is not an outlier.

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Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class

The Hechinger Report

Among the dozen districts with enough data to assess Native American student representation, these students sometimes accounted for double or triple the share of suspensions that would be expected based on their proportion of enrollment. “A Related: Inside our analysis of attendance-related suspensions in Arizona.

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