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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.

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

The Hechinger Report

By observing lessons and spending more time with students, administrators may be better informed about challenges in schools, and better equipped to support principals. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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

The Hechinger Report

Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their nondisabled peers, and when they are given the same opportunities to plan out their postsecondary lives. But too often, schools aren’t providing students with the appropriate help.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

She also learned how to keep students with disabilities on task and break down lessons into smaller, easier bits of information for students who were struggling. Students with disabilities who are placed in general education classrooms get more instructional time , have fewer absences and have better post-secondary outcomes, research shows.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

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For us, they’re informative for other reasons: To see language and patterns is to see priority and thought. For additional information regarding their application to technology, please refer to www.ed.gov/ocr/letters/colleague-201105-ese.pdf and www.ed.gov/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf. College enrollment. 105-244, 20 U.S.C.

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

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There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact—whether through changing academic standards, testing tools, teacher accountability and technology implementation—to make them a reality. Sure, there is much talk in D.C.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

And at the helm of these spaces, school librarians must negotiate how best to support students with library resources, adapt to new technological advancements in education and pass on the fundamental tenets of digital and information literacy to students. What are the emerging technologies in a library? Holzweiss asked. As the U.S.