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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

To promote CT professional development for teachers, we held four workshops, called CT Boosters, to provide teachers with examples and guidance around the integration of two key CT practices, data and analysis and algorithms. A bit of Appalachian ingenuity. Four examples of snowpeople glyphs created by second-grade students.

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How to Improve Student Engagement at Scale

eSpark

Your class could volunteer and summarize their experience in a group presentation. Students participate in a writing workshop. Students present on a local issue at a town meeting. Most teachers simply don’t have enough time or energy to write rigorous lessons that both engage students and meet a diversity of academic needs.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students.

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How to boost math skills in the early grades

The Hechinger Report

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Turning this around isn’t something you can do during a couple of workshops,” said Ayala. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. —

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

After the Denver Zoo’s James Garcia, who had been seeking a way to help Peruvian scientists save the frogs, saw students present a robot they had built at a local workshop, he asked if they could construct an underwater model. Today the group has swelled to 13 members and includes girls.). “We

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The Benefit Of Making The Curricular More Like The Extracurricular

TeachThought - Learn better.

Even in today’s age of standardized testing and emphasis on academic standards, perhaps even because of this recent emphasis, educators are increasingly aware of the need to nurture students’ complete development. Music, drama, and other arts should be integrated into daily academic work. by Mike Anderson.

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How to Boost Math Skills in the Early Grades

MindShift

Turning this around isn’t something you can do during a couple of workshops,” said Ayala. Children sat together in small groups at tables and on the floor with large sheets of paper and markers spread out between them. Ayala, the district’s first woman and first Latina in the top spot, rolled up her sleeves.

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