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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

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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. What is Seesaw? Who can use Seesaw?

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

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Many of the Webster upperclassmen simply walk by the City Year members, but several younger students stop and engage in conversations about a shared love of video games or binge-watching YouTube clips. The system uses attendance, behavior and course-grade data to identify ninth- and 10th-grade students who are at risk of dropping out.

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

The Hechinger Report

A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. Secondary school superintendents joined their counterparts from the elementary school level to compare notes across schools, hoping to identify common problems and patterns. He replayed the video. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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

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If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? Advertising does this, the news does this, so does professional mentoring, documentaries, books, videos and of course mothers and fathers. By LeiLani Cauthen.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

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To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. You are conducting an experiment and you realize your data has been corrupted…”). Their goal? Darling-Hammond says the format is rarely used outside the U.S,

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

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First Comes Plans, Then Comes (Effective) PD Stephanie Avera, secondary TOSA, and John Morgan, Director of EdTech, of Capistrano Unified School District decided it was time to rethink technology PD. For each session they start with the academic standards, then get creative with devising projects that can bring the lessons to life.