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

Ask a Tech Teacher

Statistics say over the summer, kids lose over two months of math skills, two months of reading skills, and one month of overall learning. Efforts to prevent summer learning loss propel often-unpopular year-round school initiatives and all manner of summer school and summer camps that focus on cerebral topics. Worry no more.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Go to coolcatteacher.com/modern right now to sign up for the Modern Classrooms essential course for free where you will learn about the strategies, research, and resources that can drive student-centered, self-directed learning in your classroom. Thank you both for joining us today.

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Edgenuity Acquires Compass Learning to Expand Online, Blended Learning Reach

Marketplace K-12

Edgenuity today announced its acquisition of Compass Learning, bringing together two well-known ed-tech companies whose digital offerings will now span kindergarten through 12th grade. headquarters and the Austin, Texas, offices of Compass Learning. headquarters and the Austin, Texas, offices of Compass Learning. Company Exec.

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Check out the top 25 edWebinars of 2021

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The Brain and Reading: Why Learning to Read Is Hard and What to Do About It. Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Remote and Hybrid Learning. Culturally Responsive Teaching and SEL: Build Trust, Promote Health, and Move Students to Independent Learning. Learn more about approval in your state on our state map.

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How one district improved its personalized learning by failing forward

eSchool News

The Ben Davis Extended Day (BDED) blended learning program is an extension of one of the district’s high schools, Ben Davis High School. Ultimately, the teachers decided as a group to research and implement Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) with their students.

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

Edsurge

Today, Weld North Education consists of two main offerings: Edgenuity (formerly known as e2020), a provider of digital K-12 courseware for physical and virtual schools, and Imagine Learning , which provides online supplemental programs for math, English and Spanish. Last year, Achieve3000 acquired a competitor, Actively Learn.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

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It requires educators to deeply understand how institutional racism comes to be and manifests in environments where young students learn. Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities?

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