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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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As the importance and benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) have become more widely recognized, many teachers have struggled to combine this type of learning with their required curriculum. Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, and a former eighth grade English teacher has spent 11 years in the classroom.

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Principals Need to Know Literacy

Reading By Example

When I first became a principal at an elementary school, I thought I had the requisite knowledge to be a literacy leader. During my first school year as a principal, I did engage in monthly professional learning with the faculty, also around literacy.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

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According to the CoSN report, the standard definition of hurdles is a roadblock that forces schools to slow down, prepare themselves, and then make the leap. Super-Connected is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net for school superintendents, district leadership, and aspiring district leaders. About the Presenters.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

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Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”. Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities? The Construct of True Anti-Racist Education. Tonia Durden, Ph.D.,

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. But it’s still one that, to borrow from Tressie McMillan Cottom yet again, constitutes “lower ed.”