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Tomorrow’s New Normal: What It Means for Professional Development

edWeb.net

Hansen said the new normal of professional development includes flexibility and open-mindedness to meet teachers where they are. Katie has 17 years of classroom and curriculum development and design experience at the secondary level and is a strong advocate for the advancement of the teaching profession.

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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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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

They tended to cite a combination of their own optimism coupled with pressure from state officials, who in turn were pressured to meet the federal educational goals set in No Child Left Behind. She expected much more than ‘You’re going to meet state standards,’” he said. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

Edsurge

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

There is also progress in creating inclusive and engaging print and digital library collections to meet a growing demand for equitable access to school libraries. As a result, students will be much better prepared to engage with emerging technologies and pursue STEM careers later in life. Every child deserves a library.