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Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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How School Districts Are Using Upgraded Audiovisual Tools to Improve Learning

EdTech Magazine

Now, through the federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, KCS was about to receive more than $114 million to spend on a wide range of learning improvement projects. One of the issues that had bubbled to the top during the assessment,” recalls KCS CTO Freddie Cox, “was disparate access to classroom AV.”

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ParentSquare Wins Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence Best of 2022 for Secondary Education

American Consortium for Equity in Education

The annual award recognizes edtech solutions that excel at aiding educators, students, and teachers ParentSquare, developer of the premier unified school-home engagement platform for K-12, announced today that it won this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of Keep Reading ParentSquare Wins Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence (..)

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Native American students have the least access to computer science

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

eSchool News

Students should be learning the contextual background of a subject and working on the skills they need to critically analyze social studies content. Students also need practice with primary and secondary sources before diving in and analyzing and finding their own. Because the curriculum in a class like AP U.S.

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How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning

Neo LMS

While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Current distance learning settings have made this crystal clear. Read more: Best practices for supporting parents with remote learning.

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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We took our school from a physical school on a Friday to a distance learning campus by Monday. And the learning continues. They know how to do distance learning. Higher ed could learn some things, but we are specifically addressing K12.