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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

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BOSTON (April 21, 2022) – Hemet Unified School District in Riverside County, California, has adopted LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs for its teachers and administrators. It also offers professional learning sessions led by national LETRS experts.

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Most Parents Think Teachers Are Fully Prepared to Deliver Science of Reading-Aligned Instruction; Educators Are Less Optimistic

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So, even though they use Lexia resources, the science of reading was not part of their knowledge base when they first entered the profession. With a complete offering of professional learning, curriculum, and embedded assessment, Lexia helps more learners read, write, and speak with confidence.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

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Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. It allows each person to contribute with shorter deadlines and individual deliverables and makes it easier to assess each person’s contribution. Make space for students to truly work as a team. Collaborate with teachers in your school.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

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Focusing on how students learn rather than what they learn will eventually lead to changes in conceptual frameworks of “teaching” and instructional practices. Principles of learning that are emerging from cognitive science will begin to infiltrate the education space. Jacob Bruno, vice president of professional learning, NWEA.

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

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Smith recommends using the community and its knowledge base to obtain information, anticipate issues, and develop solutions. He has started having small-group discussions with school principals to learn about key issues and what can help to resolve them. Tom was also a member of Chiefs for Change. Join the Community.

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Effective Instruction and Support For Emergent Bilingual Students

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The feedback they receive, which may be vocal, facial, or written, lets the speakers how well their sentences work, and then the speakers can integrate that awareness into their knowledge base, and either try again or continue using what worked well. Integrating Technology. Watch the Recording. Join the Community.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

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Limited or no access to the internet has particularly undermined their remote science learning experiences. Principal among them is pairing professional learning with quality materials to advance teacher practice in the classroom. Assessment. If you think of an old assessment item like, ‘How many protons are in hydrogen?’”