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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

1st Grade digital PBL: a case study. Today I will share with you a more specific example of how an elementary school in California, Woodcrest Elementary School, of the Fullerton School District, has created wonderful digital learning environments for its K1 learners, specifically in the area of literacy.

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

Key benefits of Measuring Up include: introduction of concepts by connecting what students will learn to what they may already know and to real-world examples. For example, the National Dropout Prevention Center conducted a year-long study of the Measuring Up program and its impact on student outcomes. Pick what interests you.

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If You Want Equity in the Classroom, Above-Average Readers Need Intervention Too

Edsurge

In 2010, New Jersey adopted Common Core standards. Learn more about Marlboro Township's impressive results and download a case study. For purposes of example, in a seventh-grade class in early September, 25 students log into Achieve3000 and participate in a 40-minute activity called LevelSet™.

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Professional development should make teachers feel urgent, not small and isolated

eSchool News

In 2015, the Board introduced ATLAS — an online platform that gives educators at every level the ability to study the practice of National Board-certified teachers through in-depth case studies and instructional videos.

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10 Big Hurdles to Identifying and Educating the Nation’s Smartest Kids

MindShift

issue, plus case studies on gifted education from a dozen countries around the world. For example, only 2.45 Finn is a fan of the Common Core State Standards, because they are rigorous, but he acknowledges that the standards are strictly sequenced, which makes it harder to skip ahead. Europe and Asia.

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

GlobalSpeedChat--A Worldwide Collaboration of Students - Jennifer Hesseltine & Kim Preshoff, Teachers in New York A Case Study in Global Business Awareness - Connecting Students to the World Marketplace - Penny Lorenzo, JD Agentes De Cambio - Pedro Aparicio M.S. Barrios, Ed.D.; Beebe, Ph.D.,

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

A relative handful of new or redesigned high schools around the country are organizing themselves around the Maker approach, including the pseudonymous Collaborative Design School that served as the case study for this paper. Popular ‘Maker Movement’ Incompatible With Common Core, Authors Contend.