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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

I refer to those epiphanies, when the metaphorical light bulb above a student’s head switches on, as “luminations.” Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!”

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When a Tiny Fraction of Teachers File Most School Discipline Referrals

Edsurge

That’s in no small part because of what he says is a first in this field of research: access to data with a uniquely high level of detail that allowed the team to track how many office referrals were issued by individual teachers. After the top 5 percent of referring teachers were added, that ratio jumped to 3.4

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What I Learned From an Experiment to Apply Generative AI to My Data Course

Edsurge

I wanted to experience what it feels like to use the tools my students have access to. They needed to substantiate their selections with references from existing literature, interpret the results, provide relevant policy recommendations and produce a positionality statement. See the task analysis and variables below.)

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Beyond Homework: The Evolution of the Flipped Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Among these is the flipped classroom model , a strategy that leverages video instruction to mitigate potential obstacles that make it challenging for students to access information presented live. Video Analysis Worksheets : These are worksheets with open-ended questions that encourage students to think more deeply about the video content.

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How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance

The CoolCatTeacher

This must-read report is funded by GoGuardian and includes a meta-analysis of best practices in engaging distance learning. Readers describe the series as “useful,” “helpful,” “applicable,” “reassuring,” and “accessible.”

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Practice vs. research in education? Why teachers need to do both

Neo LMS

Sure, I’m not referring to teaching in an academic setting here. For example, an English teacher might stumble upon this meta-analysis that looked at 41 summer reading programs across 35 studies and found that lower-income students from kindergarten to eighth grade benefit the most from these programs.

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VHS Learning Is Awarded Teaching with Primary Sources Grant from Library of Congress 

eSchool News

History curriculum and professional development supporting discussion-based primary source analysis online and in other learning settings. During the grant project, VHS Learning will design 33 primary source analysis lessons within a cohesive, newly-developed U.S. History curriculum.” History curriculum. Copyright Office.