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Mentoring Minds - instructional materials to develop critical thinking skills

Educational Technology Guy

Mentoring Minds is an educational publishing company that develops K-12 instructional materials to help students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. The company's main goal is to provide materials that help students increase their critical analysis and reasoning skills, along with problem solving skills.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. But unfortunately, the classroom studies they found didn’t keep track of the minutes.

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Outlier by Savvas Named to TIME World’s Top EdTech Companies 2024 List

eSchool News

Outlier by Savvas meets this need by offering high-quality online dual enrollment courses that broaden students’ academic horizons from the convenience of their high school classroom.” The ranking is based on the research and analysis of companies across two focus areas: financial strength and industry impact.

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The power of AI in education: Enhancing instructional coaching for student success

eSchool News

However, it is essential for educators and instructional coaches to embrace emerging technologies like AI, as doing otherwise would mean doing our students a disservice. With the assistance of AI, instructional coaches can gain a deeper understanding of effective teaching techniques and those that may need refinement.

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Learning enters the metaverse with “Mission: Mars” Roblox experience

eSchool News

Museum of Science President Tim Ritchie said: “The Museum’s entry into the metaverse is part of our aspiration to reach 100 million people in museums, classrooms, and online by 2030, breaking down barriers to engagement and creating greater equity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

But these reading gains are meaningful for a real-life classroom experience, not a laboratory experiment or a small pilot program, which involved more than 7,000 third graders over two years. How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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Using open educational resources to empower differentiated instruction

Hapara

Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. So what does that mean?