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Excellent Free STEM Strategies from TGR Foundation and Discovery

The CoolCatTeacher

Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. Every STEM educator should take a look at these resources and integrate them into their blended or online learning environment. How can we ensure STEM is more than just a buzzword? What Future STEM courses are coming next?

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Our research-backed micro-credentials are digital certifications that verify an individual’s competence in a specific skill or set of skills, regardless of where and how they learned them. Students are able to recognize ways that they get “stuck” in coursework, and learn ways to become “unstuck.”.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

Edsurge

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Fast forward to September 2022, and I am finalizing modules on Canvas, our learning management system, to continue to deliver the same quality professional learning, but in an entirely different format.

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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

Edsurge

The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. PD has a bad reputation in education circles, and it isn’t because teachers are resistant to professional learning. On the contrary, teachers want professional learning that is practical, engaging and relevant.

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Empowerment and ownership need and should be associated with learning to increase relevancy, value, meaning, and outcomes. The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students.

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Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching

edWeb.net

A decorated educator of 21 years, Monica has received honors and awards from a wide variety of organizations for her leadership, advocacy, and classroom instruction. She is the author of Weeds & Seeds: How to Stay Positive in the Midst of Life ’ s Storms and Promises and Possibilities: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.

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Three Strategies for Advancing Antiracist Practices

MindShift

He took the pressure off students of having just one shot at demonstrating what they learned in tests and used a variety of assessments instead. Many students preferred having the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery with the letter and show authentic learning.