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When Students Lead Parent-Teacher Conferences, Everyone Benefits

Edsurge

It’s conference season—the time of the year when parents and teachers meet to discuss each student’s progress. The teacher offers an overview about the student’s performance, and then they explain the report card or other set of data. I remember watching a 7th grader lead a bilingual conference. There is another way.

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Formative Assessment: Collecting Data & Designing Differentiated Learning Experiences in Class or Online

Catlin Tucker

Teachers learn so much from listening to their students engaging in conversation or observing them as they work through a problem or task. The path of the playlist can be differentiated or personalized to better meet students where they are at in terms of content knowledge and skills.

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Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment

Edsurge

Prioritize early evaluation With so many options being showcased at trade shows and conferences or on social media, it’s tempting to make your mind up before the search has even started. Administrators involved in upgrading technology attended conferences to see what their peers were doing and what was available in the market.

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Should students read 20 minutes a day?

Reading By Example

, written by Erica Reischer for The Atlantic, cites two studies that demonstrate the potential negative effects of assigning reading to students and using reading logs (a common practice when assigning daily reading). Still, I understand teachers’ interest in holding students accountable for reading regularly. Reader Responses.

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Google Earth in Every Grade: Create and Explore! – SULS0113

Shake Up Learning

A former special education teacher, Tammy is passionate and has presented at various national conferences about finding web-based technologies to make the curriculum accessible to all learners. Schoolytics helps you measure, monitor, and manage student engagement and assignments. Click To Tweet. And my favorite part?

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PROOF POINTS: New poll points to college and career benefits of Greek life despite criticism

The Hechinger Report

Leaders of the advocacy organizations who funded the poll, the North-American Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Conference, said the results are evidence that their chapters are good at developing people skills and provide support networks to help students overcome frustrations and disappointments.

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How This Company Gives Voice — and Value — to Virtual Collaboration

Edsurge

Then it gets stuck up on the wall in the classroom, and at parent-teacher conferences, parents will come through and see it. In comparison to the “red checkmark” experience, students get this feeling that, “Okay, I did that wrong, but here's a teacher who cares about me, cares about me succeeding.”

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