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Navigating the digital landscape by fostering classroom digital wellness

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? Listen to an audio version of this post: Because most classrooms integrate technology now, it’s not enough to teach academic standards. Download our free e-book The post Navigating the digital landscape by fostering classroom digital wellness appeared first on Hāpara.

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How This Teacher’s Influence Reaches Beyond Any Classroom

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My interest was peaked because it was not often that I encountered students at the age of 10 that were able to meet these academic standards.” Max and I began to work on writing stories together and reading advanced books.” ” Smith and Max began to have a long dialogue about his future and his past.

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It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How.

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As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. Articles , podcasts and books about burnout are released every day.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

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That’s one thing Katie Worth, a former reporter for the PBS show Frontline, found while researching her new book, “ Miseducation ,” about how schools teach climate science. The book is called “Miseducation.” But many kids in the U.S. aren’t necessarily sure—even ones who have experienced its effects firsthand. That’s a good assumption.

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I Love Being a Teacher, But I Can’t Survive on Compassion

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Louis, I remember walking into the building as books and computers were thrown out of the third-floor window. Most administrators were more concerned with meeting academic standards and metrics than offering holistic support to students who couldn’t meet these standards because of their personal challenges.

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What Do Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World? More Than Tech and Academics

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And it’s the topic of a new book by Stephanie Krauss, called “Making It: What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World.” Her book doesn’t dive into what academic curriculum is better, or whether or not kids need to learn to code. You wrote much of this book before the pandemic. What is the goal of your framework?

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

We also wanted to center each districts’ CS mission and vision and integrate the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Computer Science and the KAS for Technology. A bit of Appalachian ingenuity.

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