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Building a Sustainable City

User Generated Education

Healthy Commons. Healthy Commons are that upon which we all depend and for which we are all responsible (i.e., air, trust, biodiversity, climate regulation, our collective future, water, libraries, public health, heritage sites, top soil, etc.). They will assume the rights, responsibilities, and actions to care for the Commons.

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Maker-Enhanced Writing Workshop: Character Development

User Generated Education

Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred. Common Core State Standards – ELA. The YWP also helps K–12 educators facilitate NaNoWriMo in schools, libraries, and community centers around the world.

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5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

eSchool News

It is the time of year where we analyze the data from the first two months of school, tweak instruction to meet student needs, and accelerate our efforts to help our students achieve as much growth as possible. It provides sentence starters and lessons are based on Common Core Standards.

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How Genrefication Makes School Libraries More Like Bookstores

MindShift

For 12 years Jennifer Taylor watched kids come into the library at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt, California and struggle: “We’d have rows and rows of books, and they don’t know what to pick.” Little did Taylor know, she’d stumbled upon a hotbed of controversy in the world of library science. Jennifer Taylor).

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Aligning Video Coaching to Instructional Vision? Here are Hartford Schools’ 5 Key Learnings

Edthena

This vision for high-quality teaching includes 6 core elements: being data-informed, collaborative, student-centered, culturally relevant, and differentiated, and having high expectations. Those 6 themes are based on Connecticut’s Common Core of Teaching , used by Hartford Schools as their teacher evaluation rubric.

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Why teachers don’t need to ban ChatGPT or AI tools in the classroom (and what to do instead)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Initially, teachers entrenched in traditional teaching were outraged at the prospect of students skipping library day in favor of a few searches on a computer; journalists predicted that computers would never replace aspects of the traditional classroom (such as this Newsweek article from 1995 ).

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

This is done through its standards-aligned assessment library or teacher-created assessments developed from a bank of over 60,000 standards-specific questions. Data on Measuring Up. For more data, click this link to find a list of academic and case studies. What are Common Core keyboarding standards?

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