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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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Mathematics, Everywhere for Everyone

Digital Promise

But today’s math assignments can be confounding for parents who learned math in a pre-Common Core era, or in a different country — or who still harbor math anxiety from their own days at school, or never fully learned to connect the dots between everyday actions and math lessons. Five Strategies for Connecting with Families.

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

eSchool News

As we collectively elevate teaching so that it may sit comfortably alongside other highly respected and important professions, we must think carefully about how to provide higher-quality, effective continuing education for teaching. Others find ourselves supported by just one or two afternoons of professional development per year.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

Children in early elementary school have had their most formative first few years of education disrupted by the pandemic, years when they learn basic math and reading skills and important social-emotional skills, like how to get along with peers and follow routines in a classroom. Heather Miller, first grade teacher. “So

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

To see the conference schedule in your own time zone, and for instructions on how to click through and enter a session, please go to our schedule page. And special thanks to Blackboard Collaborate for the terrific conference platform. Sessions: Below is the full list of conference sessions in US-Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Four

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

From theory to PowerPoint instructional design in a STEM lesson. Richard Close Planetlines Connect Students Around the World - Daniel Kinzer Director of Experiential Learning School 8:00pm Alternativas lúdicas basadas en TIC para la ensenanza del cálculo en el bachillerato - Mr. . para generar aprendizajes colaborativos en el aula - William H.

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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.,