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Ensuring Equity for English Learners (ELs)

Catlin Tucker

Therefore, it is essential to assess their language abilities and design instruction that meets their needs. This ensures they are exposed to grade-level academic content while developing their English language skills. Equality vs. Equity: Are We Meeting ELs’ Needs?

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What is pedagogy? Understanding the foundations of effective teaching and learning

Hapara

Further, it’s based on educational psychology, philosophy and theories of learning. In simple terms, pedagogy is how educators approach instruction and learning, use curriculum and plan to meet goals. It includes teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Bechtel could readily recite the definition of satire. also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district.

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

Edsurge

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. It’s not about memorizing everything you should have learned, it’s about moving you forward so you pick things up along the way.

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Arkansas Department of Education Names Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading™ Foundations an Approved English Language Arts Foundational Skills Program for Grades K–2

eSchool News

Schools and districts in Arkansas can now confidently use our program—alongside our online i-Ready® program—to meet all their Grades K–2 reading assessment, instruction, and curriculum needs.” To learn more about Magnetic Reading Foundations for Grades K–2, visit CurriculumAssociates.com/Magnetic-K-2.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

Edsurge

It’s a simple idea: learning as navigation, choosing among concepts and strategies that either pave a path forward or trap you in the puzzle at hand. Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” says Saskia Levy Thompson, a program director at the Corporation’s Education program, where she manages the New Designs to Advance Learning portfolio.

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