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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. The school already had a focus on ‘Big Ideas’ that were cross-disciplinary, blending what students would Know , Do , and Understand.

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Three simple steps for creating lesson plans

Hapara

History class: By the end of class, students will be able to explain how technological advancements during WWI affected soldiers, as evidenced by creating a main claim and supporting that claim with primary and secondary source documents. Choose how students will experience instructional content. para Dashboard.

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Optimal Engagement & Learning with Asynchronous Research Presentation: @LisaVardi’s 8th Grade American Studies Students Use @Flipgrid to Teach Their Classmates About Individuals Who Have Changed History During #BlackHistoryMonth & #WomensHistoryMonth

techieMusings

This year has undoubtedly forced us to reexamine assignments and assessments, reimagine what collaboration and projects look like, and create new avenues for students to actively participate in all aspects of class, whether at home or in the classroom. STEP 1: RESEARCH USING SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SOURCES. STEP 2: WRITE A SCRIPT.

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Practical Applications to Individualize and Personalize Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The Independent OpenCourseWare Study (IOCS) that I co-created with Julie Meehan when I was principal at New Milford High School represents an uncommon learning experience for secondary students that allows them to fully utilize OCW to pursue learning that focuses on their passions, interests, and career aspirations.

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

You are feeling confident that, after 20 minutes or so of prep time, students will engage in a lively discussion on the theme of regional identities in the post-Civil War era where they acknowledge one another’s contributions, weave in conflicting viewpoints and dig deeper into the source material to arrive at new conclusions.

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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

The Hechinger Report

Yet “even as they teach their students to back up their claims with evidence, they don’t have much evidence to back up those claims.”. It’s not that we don’t know what our students are learning as much as it is that we’re having to talk about it, document it, represent it in a broader way for a larger audience.”.

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