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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia. Example #1: An autistic student using VR. Example #2: VR and Beowulf. Example #3: A student designing fashion in VR. Example #4: Pam’s experience in VR with Field Trips.

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How The English Language Learning System Is Failing in America

TeachThought - Learn better.

During my seven years of teaching at Raven Elementary in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I saw a significant increase in the number of Hispanic students and ELL students, so I know the shortcomings of our system firsthand. For example, my ELL student who lit the trash can on fire witnessed his father’s murder. affiliate].

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different.

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Excite, expand, equitize: Using data to support reading

eSchool News

Our students can choose to read digital magazines, non-English content, Battle-of-the Books texts, and books from wide variety of curated collections. For example, in following the data on average-time-per-book by format we learned that our students were spending more time in audiobook texts than in ebooks.

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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

NeverEndingSearch

In fact, in the face of our unprecedented situation, PSLA President, Cathi Fuhrman recently shared a space for sharing Reopening Plans or Protocols and a space to view the submitted examples. From Kim Borden’s Plainfield Elementary School Library Reopening Plan and COVID Response. Being proactive feels so much better.

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Should we test all 2-year-olds for autism?

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families. Sign up for our newsletter.