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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

We decided to write a book to provide every teacher with the strategies and tools to confidently pull all parts of the writing process into the classroom. Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Kiuhara, S. A., & MacKay, M.

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Transforming summer school with high-dosage tutoring

eSchool News

Today’s students have different summer learning needs, and we have better tools and methods to teach them. I would submit that in 2022, after two years of extraordinary learning loss, a transformation shouldn’t wait any longer. It’s time to start using them. The old model of summer classes in school buildings every day from 9 a.m.

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Differentiating in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

During the spring of 2020, I connected with the Juab School District in Utah and began what would be two years of longitudinal work to help them take personalized learning to the next level. Little did I know that my visit to Red Cliffs Elementary was going to blow my socks off. The pandemic derailed our planned first face-to-face day.

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18 Distance Learning Tools with Sound Privacy Practices

Graphite Blog

With so many great edtech tools available, deciding which to use with your students can be a big task. One important question school administrators and educators ask when choosing new classroom technology is: How does this tool protect student privacy? But answering this question is the tricky part. Adobe Spark EDU. Khan Academy.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. Among low-income students it’s worse. Only one in five students is reading at grade level.

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How one state is incorporating data science in every subject – even art

The Hechinger Report

The top skills in demand today are data analysis, data interpretation, being able to communicate about data,” Drozda said. “It’s With the rise of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT that rely on data sets, students also need to understand how to use AI in a responsible way, he added.

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Dollars and sense: Can financial literacy help students learn math? 

The Hechinger Report

Since 2020, nine U.S. Since 2020, nine U.S. In many cases, to make a decision, you have to do calculations, so I think math is a very powerful tool. In 2020, the NAACP issued a resolution calling for more financial literacy programs in K-12 schools. The Washington, D.C., That figure rises to 14.2