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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. During this process, students observe closely, interpret their observations thoughtfully, and generate questions that spark curiosity and drive inquiry.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities.

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Digital Content Distribution in Education: Top 7 Tips to Creating a Successful Strategy

Kitaboo on EdTech

As someone in the field of education, it’s possible you’ve kept your business away from digital marketing as much as possible. Today, it is not only imperative for educational institutions to jump on the marketing bandwagon, it’s also become crucial for content creators (whether they are educators or publishers) to market educational content.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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#AskExcelinEd: How do credentials meet the market in Florida, Indiana and Kentucky?

ExcelinEd

Many states are working toward this goal by improving the quality of career and technical education (CTE) programs and have looked to industry-recognized credentials as one component of this improvement. However, there is limited research on education and labor market outcomes associated with earning an industry credential in high school.

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Give me some credit, please! (Exploring plagiarism through a series of clever case studies by Jen)

NeverEndingSearch

Designed as a professional development experience for secondary teachers, Jen’s workshop has school-wide value for opening conversations about academic honesty. Second, pedagogically, it prevents teachers from being able to properly assess what students know and the depth of that understanding. So I asked for permission.

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Lessons Learned While Creating Long Lasting Change in Providence Public Schools

Edsurge

This case study was originally published on Getting Smart. As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Read the full Providence Public Schools case study here. Looking Ahead While Instituting Change.