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Best Practices for Teaching Math to Unique Learners: Visual Representations

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Early elementary school teachers commonly use lines, circles, or other basic shapes to represent quantities to be combined when teaching addition. Middle elementary school teachers typically introduce the concept of multiplication with arrays and equal groups. To many, the use of visuals is an elementary school practice.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. Joseph Pirozzi at Franklin Elementary in Syracuse, N.Y.,

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Choosing The Right Adaptive Learning Tool

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Unique Features: Julia Cope, third-grade teacher at Bonita Elementary in Newman-Crows Landing USD, values the variety of reports for both teachers and parents. NWEA’S MAP GROWTH ( nwea.org ) Jenny Lynn Hatter, Chief Academic Officer of Harrison County Schools, reading to elementary students. I love Stride and so do my students.”

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Examine the question, "How can I integrate technology to meet the CCSS?"

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? “We never looked at brain research. We had never, ever looked at it.

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Can testing save arts education?

The Hechinger Report

High school art teacher Karen Ladd and her colleagues meet in Concord, N.H., to compare artwork created by their students for tests and to try to find common ground in scoring it. We’re all pretty glad that Monet and Da Vinci didn’t’t go to a school that said, ‘You need to [paint] in this way to meet a rubric.’”.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Moreover, per this ideology, without the aid of algorithms and “personalization” technology, human educators and traditional institutions have historically failed to meet the needs of individuals as individuals. ” The agendas of other foundations – big and small – often echo those of Gates.