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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

To Meet Students’ Needs! Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. Student Engagement Matters According to educators surveyed, student engagement increases with content that is current and relevant to students’ lives. What Do Educators Want? Educational Technology Support!

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Build Educational Equity and Develop Students’ Confidence

edWeb.net

Throughout the 20th century, she explained, multiple national initiatives streamlined teachers’, leaders’, advocates’, and parents’ goals to ensure more students had access to opportunities to attend public school and could receive a better quality education. Enshrine student and teacher wellness through culturally responsive pedagogy.

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Join #TeachDoNow Summer MOOC

Educator Innovator

TeachDoNow is a free, collaborative learning experience offered by KQED this summer in partnership with Educator Innovator and the National Writing Project. Week 2: July 14 — How can we use Connected Learning principles to promote 21st century learning and address Common Core State Standards?

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Is Your School or District Ready for PBL? 12 Deep Changes Needed for Implementation

The 21st Century Principal

Once they embrace the necessary changes in pedagogy, they realize the need for change in the physical learning environment." Administrators in PBL schools must change their desire to control what is essentially a very messy learning model, yet still maintain safety and operational effectiveness. PBL requires teachers working together.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

This will likely have a significant impact on the K-12 landscape for the next four years when it comes to charter schools, Title programs, and common core standards. As we reflect on the year that was in 2016, the Presidential election continues to loom as the largest event of the year.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Close CEO Using Facebook and Twitter as Online Classrooms: Connecting Educators and Learners Around the Globe - Pierre Moncal and Katrina Ingco - BEEd Special Education Undergraduate 8:00pm A Student-Led Virtual Technology Conference? A New Model for Collaboration!