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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing deepens learning and positively impacts academic performance, improves our students’ ability to establish and maintain relationships, and helps students manage their complex emotions. Handbook of Writing Research , 2, 194-207. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

The Hechinger Report

Confronting financial pressures during high school may ultimately leave students better prepared to manage their resources in the future: Money is the top stressor for a majority of adults, and, according to the National College Health Assessment, is the second leading cause of significant stress for college students.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. Many students go on to create such guides themselves, learning how to edit wikis and take screenshots, or capture, narrate and edit in-game footage in the process.

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Financial Literacy for All

Kathy Schrock

The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Charitable Foundation offers a online comprehensive financial literacy program designed for students in grades 3-12. Students engage with financial literacy concepts through innovative self-paced modules featuring custom videos, animations, and interactive activities.

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Financial Literacy for All

Kathy Schrock

The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Charitable Foundation offers a online comprehensive financial literacy program designed for students in grades 3-12. Students engage with financial literacy concepts through innovative self-paced modules featuring custom videos, animations, and interactive activities.

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10 Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ultimately, they build a convincing case for ditching or minimizing homework with strategies for improving learning through differentiation and student agency. A Handbook for Beginning Teachers. At the end of each chapter are training activities to help the reader reflect on and apply the ideas to their own students.

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The seminal handbook for teachers and educators who want to bring Maker Education into their schools and classrooms. “Many of the students expressed trepidation or anxiety about how their participation in the [Maker space] ‘counted,’ and some expressed reluctance to change material they had worked hard to complete.”