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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

eSchool News

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . VWSD consists of three high schools (grades 9 – 12), three middle schools (grades 7-8), ten elementary schools, and an alternative program.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In 2007, administrators were frustrated by the district’s poor outcomes and low graduation rate.

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OPINION: Four ways that Mississippi is teaching more children to read well

The Hechinger Report

Mississippi’s results are no miracle but rather the outcome of planning, commitment and hard work. Some have taken to calling this the “Mississippi Miracle,” and while that makes a nice headline, it’s not quite right either. Second, examine current practices. Where are your areas for growth? What will it take to get there?

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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3 Tips for Easily Implementing Social-Emotional Learning – by John Gamba

ViewSonic Education

But here’s the rub: Many of the programs that schools rely on to teach critical coping skills, like social-emotional learning (SEL) , don’t produce positive outcomes for students struggling with a variety of needs. 2 Ensure SEL Curriculum is Based on Industry-Recognized Academic Standards. That’s the bad news. The good news?

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. They’re probably going to have poor outcomes,’” she said. But we do.”. And we’ve got to reframe that.”.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. This summer, in fact, we finished the two-year opt-in period for blended learning at the elementary level. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem.

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