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How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

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I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space.

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A Shopping List for Mathematics in the Digital Age

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Embedded professional learning and collaboration: It’s not enough for the application to tell teachers how it works; the more effective ones explain how to integrate the application into the classroom and offer insights into how the tasks meet academic goals. Allison DePiro is a Senior Implementation Specialist for CueThink.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

She invested $19 — the cost of hosting a website — and created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, in tables clearly organized by grade level and subject matter, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm.

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St. Lucie Public Schools Purchases Reading Horizons to Improve Reading Performance

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Lucie, FL) September 11, 2018 — St. Lucie Public Schools in Florida has purchased Reading Horizons , a leading provider of literacy solutions, for all 26 of its elementary schools for this school year. Lucie Public School teachers have been geared up to use Reading Horizons in the classroom.

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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. During the summers of 2018 and 2019, more than 1,600 students who had failed freshman English or Algebra I were randomly assigned to one of two versions of summer school. But there was a downside. It’s hard to know what to do.”.

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What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is about book choice as well, but it’s about the choice to say no (how to say no, how to tell when you should say no, what are the ramifications of saying no, what to do when you maybe should have said no but said yes instead, and how to turn a no into a consenting yes). Supreme Court Case such as Roth v.