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The upside, and the downside, of working ‘as fast as you want and as slow as you need’

The Hechinger Report

Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies? We have found that having grades that continue on for a year has become abstract with students not feeling a sense of urgency to meet deadlines. Nellie Mae is a funder of The Hechinger Report).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm Empowering Our Students to Be Digital Citizens with Kelly Mendoza from Common Sense Media, As schools continue to integrate technology, they face increasing challenges with behavioral and ethical issues such as cyberbullying, inappropriate sharing and plagiarism. Learn more and register here. Learn more here.

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. High schools are also trying to make learning more personalized, so teachers can focus on meeting the needs and engaging the interests of individual students. Ebone Engram, 11, explains her diorama of the solar system. Photo: Sarah Garland.

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

TeachThought - Learn better.

Rather, most large-group instruction or reader-workshop mini-lessons involve small bits of text, typically no more than a few paragraphs. Nor is it possible to meet the argument-related standards at the heart of the ELA Common Core standards. How can you possibly develop comprehension ability of a text this way?

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

TeachThought - Learn better.

Rather, most large-group instruction or reader-workshop mini-lessons involve small bits of text, typically no more than a few paragraphs. Nor is it possible to meet the argument-related standards at the heart of the ELA Common Core standards. How can you possibly develop comprehension ability of a text this way?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

The group also chose to set out guidance for elementary and secondary school social studies instruction, to emphasize that education in the topic must begin in the early grades, Hedgepeth said. Some talked about receiving death threats and being doxxed, while others said they were increasingly fearful of losing their jobs.

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