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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

eSchool News

BOSTON (April 21, 2022) – Hemet Unified School District in Riverside County, California, has adopted LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs for its teachers and administrators. It also offers professional learning sessions led by national LETRS experts. About Lexia Learning.

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Effective Instruction and Support For Emergent Bilingual Students

edWeb.net

The last two school years have been a challenging time for many students who were learning English while speaking a different language at home. Peng used the term “emergent bilinguals” to describe these students, who she defined as “developing skills in a native, heritage, or home language while learning a new language.”

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.) In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. The focus was on learning.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar , with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

Edsurge

For this week’s podcast, EdSurge connected with Couch to talk about some of those frustrations, his time at Apple, and where he sees the company going next in education. And that we would be able to build a learning environment based on technology that would eventually be all digital, that would meet the needs of all students.

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Learning to learn: A skill set for the 21st century student

Neo LMS

The 21st century student and learning to learn. Fast Company collected a few jobs of the future that might have a plausible existence, but who knows how the world will look like in 2036? I think that schools should rephrase their purpose statement and include “learning to learn” in it.

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A state embraces the idea that not everyone needs to go to college

The Hechinger Report

“If you look at what amount of jobs require Algebra II, for example, it’s maybe 8 to 10 percent, and on the flip side there are all of these employability and occupational skills that students don’t learn and aren’t tested.”. Related: Push for career-technical education meets parent resistance. Robert Lerman of the Urban Institute.