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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

Edsurge

In practice, this meant districts were all but forced to use their limited resources to support teacher training and adopt new curricular materials in the subjects that were federally tested, leaving little funding for social studies and the humanities. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Classroom Makerspaces: Boost Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills By Giving Students Their Own Corner

Waterford

In fact, a case study of classrooms with makerspaces found that they can lead students to developing the following skills in particular:[1]. For older elementary students, makerspaces can also lead students to discover potential academic or career interests.[6] Why create a makerspace for the children in your classroom?

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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

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” Miller’s first graders are a case study in the scale, depth and unevenness of learning loss during the pandemic.

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When Zero-Tolerance Was Failing Students, This School Turned to Restorative Justice

Edsurge

AUSTIN, Texas — Even in elementary school, Luz Annette got into a lot of fights with other girls. Instead, the public charter school has embraced “restorative justice,” an alternative disciplinary approach that exposes students to mindfulness exercises, one-on-one counseling and group therapy sessions with a social worker.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario. How could we make them better?

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

At the elementary school she worked at before Sussex Tech, kids of all races played together, she said. “I As schools seek to better serve an increasingly diverse student population and close racial achievement gaps, Sussex Tech offers a case study in culturally responsive practice.

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