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Graduation 2020 - Ideas When #RemoteLearning

The Innovative Educator

Graduation in 2020 will be unlike any graduation before it. Elementary school students in Japan created a Minecraft graduation. Get Social Celebrate each graduate on social media with specific information such as a quote, memory, what they'll miss, and what's next. Inspired by that, college students took it to a new level.

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Like No Other School Year

Dangerously Irrelevant

As you may remember, I conducted 43 interviews for my Coronavirus Chronicles series in Spring and Summer 2020. Like No Other School Year is chock full of interesting information about school responses during the pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 027 – Marion-Walker Elementary School. Chapter 2, Learnings. Related Posts.

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Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School Selects Discovery Education’s Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in the 2022-2023 School Year

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. We are excited to begin the school year with these new resources.”.

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PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020

The Hechinger Report

For my year end post, I’m highlighting 10 of the most well-read Proof Points stories of 2020. 4, 2020 with a follow-up story to the first one on this list. The post PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020 appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Ideas for Project-Based Learning at the Elementary Level

EdTechTeacher

In February, I had the opportunity to work with an incredible group of elementary educators from Nauset Schools on Cape Cod. Students will need to research information on their “ugly” animal. For more details and a full schedule of our 2020 Summer Virtual Workshops for Teachers, visit our website at [link]. Driving Question.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). Kiuhara, S.

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What kids stand to lose if 2020 steals kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Kindergarten is designed for young children, who learn best by doing. Kindergarten matters a lot.”.

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