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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

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With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? They readily folded evidence from the playful assessments into existing weekly goal-setting meetings, advisory sessions and student self-reflections.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. And before that, an advisor for Future Ready Schools and has moderated and presented numerous Future Ready’s Summits and Institutes.

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

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Many districts have signed the Future Ready Pledge , but what comes next? Start with the Standards, then get Creative When Edna Tristan became principal of the brand new STEAM Academy in El Rancho Unified School District, her mission was to tie STEAM into the regular classroom through cross-curricular, project-based activities.