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CFY becomes PowerMyLearning

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Sixteen years ago, Dan Dolgin and Elisabeth Stock started this organization because they were both deeply concerned about education in our country, and the need to ensure that the paths they both had as students, which had provided them with such amazing opportunities, should be open to everyone – no matter their zip code. ​.

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Time Is the Greatest Challenge to Teaching STEM. Families Can Help.

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For 14 years, Julia Moak, a fifth grade science teacher in Miami, has switched on the lights in her classroom at the start of every school day. A generator then converts it into electrical energy, which rapidly moves through power lines and into her classroom, converting to light energy. An unnoticeable moment, you might think, but Ms.

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Want Students to Remember What They Learn? Have Them Teach It.

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D’Angelo witnessed in her classroom? I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships. But could it really explain what Ms.

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What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle

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Fostering persistence is a hot topic among educators—and has been a topic for decades. Further evidence of this trend includes the hundreds of teachers supported by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching who are trying out classroom strategies to help students persist through difficult in-class assignments.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

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The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. What The Trials Showed.

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Empowering Superintendents to Connect Technology and Learning

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The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom. Technology allows teachers to expand their lessons outside of the classroom and make connections beyond their communities. Imperative 1: Strengthen District Leadership and Communication.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps for Game Based Learning

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I''ve done posts on educational iOS Apps and Educational Online Games but I have never combined the two and curated a list that specifically deals w/ GBL. The resources below will vary from drill and practice to all out epic adventures in 3D virtual worlds, to help Gamify a classroom. Gamification).