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S'Cool Tools of the Week: Refugee Libraries Toolkit, 21Teach

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If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. But the site’s collection of reading lists, guides for doing policy outreach, and refugee camp case studies are useful for any high schooler or social studies teachers looking to bring messages of tolerance into the classroom.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

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The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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5 principles for rigorous technology evaluation

eSchool News

A new policy proposal notes that while education technology holds great promise to improve K-12 educational outcomes when correctly implemented, methods to rigorously evaluate education technology tools have not kept pace with the tools themselves. Next page: Five principles to help evaluate ed-tech tools.

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IXL, Brightspace, Tales2Go

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If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. IXL was great for skill breakdown and practice, easy to find standards based on common core. Dawn’s district as a 1:1 device policy and uses project-based learning. Cory has a classroom with 1:1 devices.

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

eSchool News

As a teacher leader who has had this conversation with teachers, administrators, policy makers, and parents, I recognize an important distinction to which we must pay attention. People outside the profession often want to see a greater sense of urgency about our work.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Four

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

11:00am Conceptualizing Violence and Leveraging Skype to Promote World peace - Dr. . para generar aprendizajes colaborativos en el aula - William H.

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

MindShift

” Finn is not just a proud grandpa; he’s a long-established expert on education policy with the Fordham Institute and Hoover Institution. issue, plus case studies on gifted education from a dozen countries around the world. educating its top performers? .” It contains an analysis of the U.S. Europe and Asia.

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