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

eSchool News

Offered by Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, LETRS provides educators with the deep knowledge required to be literacy and language experts in the science of reading. It approaches adult learning in a really respectful way and meets them where they’re at,” she said. About Lexia Learning.

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Effective Instruction and Support For Emergent Bilingual Students

edWeb.net

The feedback they receive, which may be vocal, facial, or written, lets the speakers how well their sentences work, and then the speakers can integrate that awareness into their knowledge base, and either try again or continue using what worked well. Integrating Technology.

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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

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. Professional learning opportunities are puzzles that include establishing knowledge bases, developing skills, instilling trust, and belief in the process and, most importantly, allowing time for practice. Bruce holds an M.B.A

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

The Hechinger Report

The only way we are going to compete with companies in places like India, China and Mexico, with much lower labor costs, is through knowledge.”. Whitworth says his firm is able to beat those companies by providing consistently high quality products to clients with niche needs. Anyone can get machine tools,” Whitworth says.

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

Neo LMS

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? In today’s knowledge-based economy, employees are challenged by new situations at work every day, so they need to constantly learn and improve their skills in order to be successful.

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