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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. Initiatives such as Brown v. Digital Equity.

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Multiple Choice

Digital Promise

One of the key elements of the curriculum-design approach known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is student engagement — creating opportunities for students to become engaged and stay motivated, to believe that what they’re learning is important, and to feel capable in their learning. Read the original version here.

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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

Appreciating that volition, engagement, and teaching excellent are all tied together, creating essential guidelines for every school’s planning for PD. The training in this area is mostly academically focused, such as common core standards and STEM.

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Three simple steps for creating lesson plans

Hapara

Lesson plans serve as a teacher guideline for what students will learn, why they are learning a skill and how they will learn it and demonstrate their proficiency. The first step to planning an effective lesson is to decide what skill you will teach using the Common Core or state standards specific to your content area and grade level.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. Students engaged in a group history project, for example, might need to demonstrate that they have learned to collaborate and investigate. 442, teachers said.

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