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Six Steps to Project Based Learning

eSpark

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 1) Essential Question.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? Causing others to know something is, in fact, at the core of every single industry. By LeiLani Cauthen. Are you a teacher? Maybe you are all of these things and more.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

Edsurge

We reflected and determined we had an opportunity to change the way we assess students to look and feel more like the in-classroom experience,” says Michelle Gough, a senior vice president for Project Lead the Way and its chief legal and assessment officer. Is it important to measure those skills? The answer is yes, and they can be measured.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

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.

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In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs

The Hechinger Report

At 8:00 on a chilly spring morning in this rural Vermont town, while most kids his age are filing into classrooms and preparing for a day of school, 17-year-old Silas Woods rolls up the sleeves of his plaid button-down shirt and hoists a tire up to a mini Cooper, suspended a few feet above ground in the corner of the noisy Duxbury Auto Shop.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like?