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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

Use should be appropriate, tied to classroom content areas, and guided. Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring critical real-world skills like financial education, early literacy, character education, health & wellness, and more to your classroom.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Recent research reinforces this perspective. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Madda et al.,

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One District's Journey From 'State of Emergency' to Student Success

Edsurge

We observed classrooms and interviewed all stakeholders—students, teachers, parents, the community, principals, district office staff. One of the improvement priorities from AdvancED | Measured Progress was that the district needed a standard instructional process. standards-based instruction. well-managed classrooms.

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Pursuing Educational Equity in Selma: Part 1

edWeb.net

A+ College Ready, for example, is an intense summer professional learning program that ensures teachers are prepared to teach rigorous work to all students. This expectation reaches beyond the classroom to community involvement at The Clark Academy. Dr. Valerie Truesdale joined AASA early in 2019 as Assistant Executive Director.

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Transforming Schools and Outcomes by Using a Culturally Responsive Curriculum

edWeb.net

Explaining how this approach can be implemented in today’s classrooms, McTighe suggested framing topics in terms of key concepts and creating “concept word walls” that showcase vocabulary related to the big ideas underlying the topic. And, this sort of culturally relevant approach extends beyond the students themselves. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Focusing on Social Justice as a Path to Equity

edWeb.net

Culturally relevant pedagogy is “good teaching” that must be implemented in each classroom. The goal should be to affirm students’ identities, promote their cultural background, see every student for the person they are, and let them bring their whole selves as a strength in the classroom. Each student should have mirrors and windows.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.