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How to teach critical thinking skills online

eSchool News

This story on how teaching critical thinking skills online during the COVID pandemic, originally published on April 29, was eSN’s No. 8 most popular story of 2020. Our learning model fosters independence and self-advocacy with applications in all areas of a student’s life.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

Edsurge

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

Edsurge

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. In the summer of 2020, I worked with youth organizers in Detroit to conduct listening sessions with youth across the city and state; we wanted to support local organizations in developing their own education justice campaigns.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

Edsurge

It forced school systems to not only rethink their instruction but also figure out how to best use technology to facilitate instruction. Before the pandemic, teachers across the country taught students how to read, how to code and how to determine mathematical concepts like the area of a circle mostly from in front of the classroom.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*. Institute for Student Achievement (ISA). National Association for Gifted Children.

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PROOF POINTS: How a debate over the science of math could reignite the math wars

The Hechinger Report

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting. Timed tests?

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