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States need to strengthen reading instruction policies

eSchool News

Key points: States should take steps to strengthen teachers’ reading instruction See article: The science of reading, beyond phonics See article: What’s next for literacy learning? Adopting a strong elementary reading licensure test. Setting specific, detailed reading standards for teacher prep programs. Given that there are 1.3

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Remote Learning Teaching Tips

A Principal's Reflections

teachers in mid-March to collect and share best practices, ideas, and common approaches to remote learning. More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Like teachers, they are working crazy hours to help keep learning going.

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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data. Micro-credentials are a solution to this need.

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Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms! Teachers Use Online Forms to Gauge Student Learning. Kathy Dyer is manager of innovation and learning, professional learning at NWEA, a research-based nonprofit organization for student assessments.

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Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources 

eSchool News

Easy-to-follow instructions guide students through data collection, measurement, data analysis, and interpretation, while feedback provided by both open-ended and auto-graded questions reinforces correct ideas.  The school system has 13,000 students enrolled throughout the city and approximately 2,100 staff members working each day.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When teachers engage in this collaborative culture, they share best practices, develop interdisciplinary projects, and contribute to professional learning communities, leading to more innovative teaching strategies and cohesive learning environments. A meta-analysis. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., link] Coulter, S.

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Building Connections Between Home and School through Family-Teacher Partnerships

Waterford

An Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.” Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.” Wairimu, M.J., Macharia, S.M., and Muiru, A. “An Journal of Education and Practice , November 2016, 7, pp.

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