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New NWEA Study Points to Instructional Strategies Driving Academic Growth

eSchool News

Chase Nordengren, principal research lead for Effective Instructional Strategies at NWEA, the study zoomed into two schools that have historically shown high growth for diverse populations of students, including through the pandemic. Share students and strategies within a grade level Exposing students to more content 5.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

But with some smart strategies, early outreach, and a welcoming environment, you can do it! Family and Parent Engagement Strategies You Can Try Families and teachers form a support system for students throughout the school year. Topics should include relationship building, advocacy, and culturally relevant strategies.

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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

dollars) over five years to the country’s first federally-funded child care system. The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. Now, an offshoot of that recommendation has come to fruition.

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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

For many schools, this flies in the face of a traditional schooling mindset that was more geared to learners having to buy-in to a one-size-fits-all system where success was determined by how well everyone did under the same conditions more or less. How would you rate the level of learner advocacy in your school or district?

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Why Schools Can’t Talk About Family Engagement Without Talking About Race

Edsurge

For years, the parent advocacy group worked tirelessly to influence education policy and practices in Oakland. Young had already built considerable credibility with the district through earlier advocacy work and a city-wide literacy campaign conducted by the parent-powered organization. The takeaway?

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

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. In terms of communication, the aspect of listening is just as important in leading and sustaining change as the use of verbal and non-verbal strategies.

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Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment

The Hechinger Report

I spoke earlier this month with Alexa Frankenberg, executive director of California’s Child Care Providers United, and Brenda Parra, senior digital strategist for OLÉ about how to effectively organize child care workers and the importance of diverse strategies for doing so. When OLÉ first started its work, what was its strategy?

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