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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

While this basic level of access is an important starting place, it’s time to move towards a more intentional—and equitable—system for selecting the right tools to meet student needs. This is up from an average of 703 edtech tools during the 2018-2019 school year, representing a more than 200% increase in just three years.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

Edsurge

As an English as an additional language (EAL) support teacher at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand, I co-teach in four early elementary classrooms, supporting multilingual students who are developing their academic proficiency in English. To my surprise, people were interested and they voted to meet before school at 7 a.m.

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students. Group discussions can be held during Google Meet or Zoom sessions. April, 2018. August, 2018. Journals help students practice expressing themselves in writing.

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How Brain Research Helped Retool Our School Schedule for Remote Learning

Edsurge

In the fall of 2018 our school made a big shift. Opportunities for things like quality feedback, deep learning and metacognition were limited, as was time outside of class for working independently and meeting with teachers. Once again, we turned to research. Online learning has reminded us of something Dr.

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2018, 51(1), pp. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School. Higgins, K.,

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Tapping into the potential of AI smart speakers to boost parental engagement

Neo LMS

A version of this post was originally published in Teach Secondary Magazine , July 2019. said Erin Ermis , a fifth grade teacher at an elementary school in Wisconsin, regarding her experiences with Alexa-powered devices in her classroom, at ISTE just last year. She was like another person in our class.

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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

Edsurge

Current Grade School year (2021-2022) Last Full, Cohesive, COVID-Free Grade (2018-19) 12th9th11th8th10th7th9th6th8th5th7th4th6th3rd5th2nd4th1st3rdK2ndPK1st- One of us, Glenn, teaches 10th grade history, and the last time his students had a non-mask wearing, COVID free school year was in seventh grade.

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