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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. Digital learning can be engaging and meaningful and prepare students for life beyond school. With strategies and tools, educators can create a balanced and safe digital learning environment.

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

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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. What are six key principles for an effective pedagogy?

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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. Not right-sized.

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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.” She learned that his mother and father were professors and that he had indeed lived in America for a short time.

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What Can Schools Learn from the Successful Transformation of Public Libraries?

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In her 2018 bestseller “ The Library Book ,” author Susan Orlean uses the history of a fire that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 to explore transformations that libraries and librarians have undergone over the last hundred years.

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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. His admission made me emotional, but I quickly gathered myself and told him if he gave me the opportunity, I would help him learn how to read. This ended up being the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

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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. And so of course I wondered, if they moved here, what would he learn about climate change? The book is called “Miseducation.” But many kids in the U.S.