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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

If a topic is of interest to you or your school, you can download standards-alignment documents to help find a fit. Many of these units fit easily into an existing course, adding fun and real-world engagement as students learn. Designed for grades 7-10, it is also linked with Math and ELA Common Core standards.

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10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2019

The Hechinger Report

Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students. After five years of high schools teaching to the Common Core standards, a local education policy consultant noted a sudden spike in the failure rate on high school exams in New York State.

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Practical Applications to Individualize and Personalize Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Digital leadership focuses on transforming learning environments through online course offerings (synchronous and asynchronous), independent studies, and use of OpenCourseWare to provide students with continuous options to learn anytime, anywhere, and about anything.

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5 Free Summer Professional Development Resources from ASCD

The 21st Century Principal

The EduCore ™ digital tool — This digital tool is a repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the Common Core State Standards. educators implementing the Common Core State Standards in both mathematics and literacy.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Around the country, schools using this approach are documenting student success. And this approach is growing.

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As states push for news ways of learning, some kids and parents feel left behind

The Hechinger Report

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based learning. We’ve been down this road before.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - Reinventing the Classroom - Library 2.014 - The Real 1:1 - Reclaim Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, April 2nd at 7pm Student-Centered Learning: Make the Shift! , The Common Core State Standards require students to think critically and be effective consumers and producers of information and media. In other words, they can’t just passively receive learning. Common Core Writing Prompts.