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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

This is a podcast for all education trailblazers seeking the cutting edge of professional growth. As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices.

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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

The cure is much simpler: Disguise learning as play. Using the websites below, kids will think they’re playing games while actually engaging in the leading [mostly] free games and simulations in the education field. It won’t feel like learning, but will improve their critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Edgenuity Acquires Compass Learning to Expand Online, Blended Learning Reach

Marketplace K-12

Former Kaplan CEO Making Big Moves in Education Market. K-12 Dealmaking: Investor Weld North, Learn Launch Make Big Moves. The post Edgenuity Acquires Compass Learning to Expand Online, Blended Learning Reach appeared first on Market Brief. Most Math Curricula Found to be Out of Sync With Common Core.

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Check out the top 25 edWebinars of 2021

edWeb.net

The high quality of our programs is thanks to our sponsors and partners who host the programs and invite the most innovative and influential educators to present on so many timely topics. The Brain and Reading: Why Learning to Read Is Hard and What to Do About It. How Educators Can Respond to Students Experiencing Trauma.

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

Edsurge

Weld North Education is named after the Harvard dormitory where its founders first met in 1982. Little did they know then that the first word in its name would become a fitting pun for the private equity firm’s consolidation of education companies. But that figure would make Weld North Education one of the largest U.S.-based

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

edWeb.net

Anti-racist education in early childhood classrooms is far more than a multicultural lesson or two. It requires educators to deeply understand how institutional racism comes to be and manifests in environments where young students learn. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Many teachers believe their classrooms are bias free.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Politics. Via Education Week : “ Maine Gov. Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” Education in the Courts.