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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. I always look forward to this final exercise.

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3 Great Special Needs Digital Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. The app includes exercises in nine different difficulty levels, enough to challenge any student, as well as explanations for both teachers and students. – See more at: [link]. Insider tips.

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Gaming the System: EscapEDX

Knowledge Avatars K-12

And we run our companies like this. EscapEDX players gain 21st Century, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Common Core, and Bloom's higher-order thinking skills. In it, he said, "You'll never come up with anything original -- if you're not prepared to be wrong. They have become frightened of being wrong. We stigmatize mistakes.

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McGraw-Hill Education launches free project-based literacy instruction

eSchool News

In an effort to reach all students with meaningful literacy instruction, McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has launched SRA FLEX Literacy Projects Jumpstart, a free introduction to project-based literacy intervention for grades 3-12. classrooms.

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Class Tech Tips: Classroom Tips for Teaching Vocabulary with Keyword Searches

techlearning

This exercise can happen as a pre-publishing activity before they even jump into the tool. I've had the pleasure of working with this company. If students are looking for something very broad or very specific, it can be challenging to find the perfect image or icon. Then they can develop a list of potential search terms.

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Free K-2 Earth Environmental Education Curriculum Now Available

TeachThought - Learn better.

Materials include a teacher’s guide, posters, handouts, practice exercises, videos, and songs. Each unit is aligned with Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the McREL Standards Compendium. Hilton Foundation, and Southern California Gas Company, along with others.

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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

The benchmarks are similar to those used in the more than 40 states that, along with the District of Columbia, adopted the national Common Core standards a decade ago. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading. Miller asked. “No!”