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How a Two-Generation Approach Can Build Success for Students and Families

Waterford

These could include: Extended library hours before or after school. Two Generations Together: Case Studies from Head Start.” National Association of Secondary School Principals. Next, ensure that they have resources for at-home learning. Loaning out WiFi hotspots and laptops to students over weekends or nights.

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

Edsurge

For example, using “ We the People ,” one of the EAD’s seven themes, elementary grades can study, in age-appropriate ways, how America has defined who is an American in the naturalization process by reading picture books and working with corresponding primary sources.

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OverDrive Education Provides Free Resources to Schools Receiving COVID-19 Relief Funds

eSchool News

This is a generation-defining event for American primary and secondary education,” said Angela Arnold, OverDrive Education General Manager. Case studies of schools that expanded their digital libraries using ESF. Proposal template for educators seeking district approval for the use of ESF. Important ESF-related websites.

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Give me some credit, please! (Exploring plagiarism through a series of clever case studies by Jen)

NeverEndingSearch

Jennifer Bigioni is now the School Library Media Specialist at Princeton (NJ) High School. Designed as a professional development experience for secondary teachers, Jen’s workshop has school-wide value for opening conversations about academic honesty. So I asked for permission.

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How One Student Email Could Have Been Life-Changing

Gaggle Speaks

Without hesitation and regardless of the time of day, our team quickly notified Robert, the lead Gaggle emergency contact at Hesperia Unified and the district’s Director of Secondary Education, Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, and administrators at the student’s high school.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Video-based reflections : Using video to reflect upon teaching practice has been shown by several studies to improve teaching practice or student achievement ( Allen, Pianta, Gregory, Mikami, and Lun, 2011 ; Brantlinger, Sherin, and Linsenmeier, 2011 ; Roth, Garnier, Chen, Lemmens, Schwille, and Wickler, 2011 ).

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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.,