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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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What Giving Students Choice Looks Like in the Classroom

MindShift

Excerpted from “ Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement ” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. Read the companion piece, “Why Choice Matters to Student Learning,” for more about the research on student engagement and choice. Student choice, therefore, helps me to help them.

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Going Schoolwide with Reading Engagement: How We Got to Now

Reading By Example

This is a follow up to a previous post about our school’s collective efforts to increase student engagement in reading, especially in their dispositions around talking about and sharing their reading lives. Our students’ work, collaboratively assessed through grade level and vertical teams, has shown great gains.

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25 Ways to use Google Forms in the Classroom (with examples!)

The Electric Educator

You have probably used Forms to create a survey or give a quiz, but that's not all Forms can do! This makes it easy for a teacher to identify which students do not have a permission slip on file. Book report generator - Writing reflectively is a key component of the common core standards.

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How to Integrate Online Professional Development Into Your School’s PD Culture

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Whether educators need to learn how to use edtech tools, analyze student data or implement Common Core standards, online PD can offer educators support when and where they need it. We embed research-based best practices into our courses to model effective instruction and target student needs.

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