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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

eSchool News

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

Graphite Blog

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities.

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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

The Hechinger Report

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. Related : What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom? No one taught her these strategies.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons. “If When they’re engaged in making activities, students are learning, but “learning just looks different” than the typical classroom, according to Kwan.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

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A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.