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

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With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? If you ignore content, then the assessment is never going get used in the classroom,” said Kim. But what else was she learning in this maker space?

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. And before that, an advisor for Future Ready Schools and has moderated and presented numerous Future Ready’s Summits and Institutes.

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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

NeverEndingSearch

After seeing Cathi’s message on the Future Ready Librarians’ Facebook Group , librarian Kim Borden, from the Penn Argyl (PA) School District, responded to the call. Gym teachers and art teachers may be similarly concerned about their programs and their spaces may be used as classrooms. Kim Borden has a plan.

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Magic of the Everyday: Southern CA Educators Share 10 Best Teaching, Technology Practices

Edsurge

Many districts have signed the Future Ready Pledge , but what comes next? Avera would teach them the tools in the morning, then take over one of the teacher’s classrooms in the afternoon to demonstrate the lesson. What resulted were flexible classrooms that moved with the needs of the class that day.