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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

eSchool News

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We We are looking forward to supporting Virginia Beach’s students and parents, as well as their dedicated educators, with this new initiative.”.

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

ViewSonic Education

As someone who dedicates a big chunk of his day to helping EdTech entrepreneurs build and market solutions designed to close gaps in America’s K-12 schools — we see it and hear it all the time: Too many solutions that look good at first blush fail to deliver on the promise of sustainable real-world impact for students. That’s the bad news.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

Schools that are in the bottom 10 percent of performance in the State, or who have significant achievement gaps, based on student academic performance in reading/language arts and mathematics on the assessments required under the ESEA or graduation rates (as defined in this document). Student performance data .

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

In the current technological landscape, though, librarians are positioned to provide students engaging, dynamic library resources as instructional designers. As instructional designers, librarians collaborate with teachers to develop learning materials to reach students best.