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New Research on Student Engagement Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

Engagement is such a challenge for schools—now more than ever. Lots of anecdotal evidence is floating around, but right now, we need answers for what produces strong student engagement. We can dig in and find that in some excellent research from the 2020 State of Engagement report.

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Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters

The CoolCatTeacher

Organizing lesson plans, units, resources, links, IEP’s, and IEP meetings can be cumbersome and stressful. In addition to sharing about the tool, you should also check out their 60+ tools for Student Engagement , and I’ll share about their teacher support quiz which will help you better support teachers.

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New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District Renews Multiyear Partnership Driving Student Engagement in Science  

eSchool News

This renewed collaboration ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to drive deeper student engagement in science instruction. Also, all AMSD educators enjoy access to the Discovery Educator Network.

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Classroom Tech Can Drive Student Engagement—But Schools Need to Choose Wisely

Edsurge

The district loaded up on engaging tools to help teachers and students connect and collaborate—TVs in classrooms, whiteboarding devices, and wireless HDMI to name a few. Serendipity struck when Vivi , an Australia-based classroom engagement solution, reached out to Rugg offering a demo. It was failing us."

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MiEN Company Releases White Paper on How Flexible Furniture Creates Active Learning Environments

eSchool News

But one commonly overlooked factor in this transition is classroom design. Kristen Brittingham, the chief learning officer for Modern Teacher, have co-authored a white paper titled “Active Learning Environments Support Student Engagement, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking.”. About MiEN Company.

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To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom

Edsurge

In Baselice’s game, each team of students represents one of the countries that initially started the war, and the objective of the game — played with index cards and a lot of negotiation between the teams — is to understand all the interconnected events that led to conflict breaking out. It can reduce the onus on the teacher,” Miller says.

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A Student Improved a Classroom Tech Solution—So the Company Hired Him

Edsurge

He had learned some coding and development on his own through freeCodeCamp.org , and he had polished some of those skills doing work for a small WordPress related company. That same year, at the suggestion of the school principal, Levinson had started meeting regularly with Sargent to learn how the school’s technologies worked. “We

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