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How Freshman Seminars Can Help Students Starting the Ninth Grade

MindShift

At Maplewood High School in Nashville, every freshman is required to take a semester-long freshman seminar course that helps them think about what they want to do with their lives, and prepares them for what high school will be like. But not everyone’s going to college, so we want them to be prepared for that also,” Cook said.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

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New Jersey recently adopted academic standards that intentionally place climate science in all the different sciences and also in a bunch of civics classes, because in addition to being a science issue, it’s more importantly a question of ‘What are we going to do about it?’ What would you say characterizes a “good” state?

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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districts, schools, teachers and students; literacy-related frameworks and academic standards; the competitive product landscape; target user and buyer personas (such as curriculum director or librarian); and pain points for school administrators, teachers and students. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

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The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. Photo by Jennifer Dev.

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” Minority groups make up only 5.5

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

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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. Ready to be inspired? Get Connected.

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How Schools Can Help Teachers Understand and Address Racial Bias

MindShift

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. Attendance is nearly 95 percent, the number of students meeting or exceeding academic standards in English is on par with statewide levels and the school reported zero suspensions in 2018.