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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. Dave Rawnsley – Principal – Burnaby North Secondary School. focus on higher-order learning. address Core Competencies.

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Today's CTE Investments Help Boost Students' Success

EdTech Magazine

Tue, 08/06/2019 - 12:12. Even students studying culinary arts need experience using digital point-of-sale systems. There is a renewed focus on CTE amid broader debates about the value of college and the student debt crisis as well as the need for viable post-secondary alternatives. Andrew.Steger_zKQu. It makes sense.

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4 Surprising Benefits of Gaming for K–12 Students

EdTech Magazine

Mon, 01/14/2019 - 15:23. It’s all about creativity and collaboration,” says Ron Pirayoff, director of secondary education for Saddleback Valley USD. BETTER SPATIAL ATTENTION: One study found that playing action video games improves the ability to locate a target stimulus among distractions — a test that predicts driving ability.

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LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (December)—Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Reimagining the Canon for Racial Justice

Educator Innovator

Our December text for the 2019-20 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN Marginal Syllabus examines how a book, Miles Morales: Spider-Man , by Jason Reynolds, exemplifies possibilities for a new type of literary canon. December Topic: Disrupting the canon with Spider-Man for racial justice.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05

Dangerously Irrelevant

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. At Legacy High School, Tom Schmidt and Ben Johnson, the secondary assistant superintendent, talked to us about how they divided the day into 22 modules, or ‘mods,’ which has allowed for tremendous flexibility.

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Crunch the Numbers—EdTech Data You Can Use Right Now

eSchool News

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23. .”

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Secondary Traumatic Stress for Educators: Understanding and Mitigating the Effects

MindShift

The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue. One of the handful of studies of STS in schools found that more than 200 staff surveyed from across six schools reported very high levels of STS. How Schools Can Acknowledge Secondary Trauma.