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Ensuring Equity for English Learners (ELs)

Catlin Tucker

Recognizing and valuing their diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences fosters a sense of belonging and enhances engagement in the classroom. Equity recognizes that ELs require additional assistance and accommodations to overcome language barriers and thrive in the classroom.

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? Are there teacher-friendly examples and professional development to support such work? We had just the right person on our team to help teachers imagine themselves bringing CT lessons into their classrooms.

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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

Hapara

The three core principles of digital citizenship and examples Digital citizenship expert and author Mike Ribble wrote about the three principles of digital citizenship. Digital access Digital etiquette Digital law Examples: Even if your school provides 1:1 devices, learners may not be able to work online if they’re at home.

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

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: Educators often hear that what they do in the classroom needs to be based on pedagogy. Whether you’re new to teaching, need a refresher or are based outside of the classroom, understanding the foundations of good teaching is important. Their strategies should be tied to pedagogy.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

Edsurge

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. After dinner, we sat together and reflected on what has kept us all in the classroom, despite the challenges of the education profession. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use.

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How to Improve Student Engagement at Scale

eSpark

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers. Students vote on what books they’d like to read as a class.