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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Formative Assessment Strategies There are different categories of formative assessment, including observational assessments, checks for understanding, and formative feedback.

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Embracing diversity in the classroom: Strategies for inclusive education

Hapara

More willingness to listen to other viewpoints instead of scorning or fearing what is unfamiliar is another indicator of inclusive education. Research from the Brown Center for Education Policy at Brookings found that Black students are 5.8 Why is diversity an issue for schools? percent more likely to be suspended multiple times and 2.2

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Edsurge

To address such challenges, a concerted effort must be made to ensure that newer technologies are implemented thoughtfully and responsibly, with a focus on enhancing the educational experience for all students. Ecosystem Evolution We need to build an ecosystem that works best for all educators and supports learners.

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Cultivating Independent and Collaborative Meaning-Making

Catlin Tucker

They are modeling strategies, processes, and skills. Fostering meaning-making requires that educators cultivate learning environments and design learning experiences that encourage students to question, analyze, synthesize, and apply information in new contexts. They are unpacking complex texts and topics.

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Student and Teacher Motivational Needs in the School Setting

User Generated Education

Looking at theories of motivation can create a broader perspective as well as give educators additional ideas for meeting their own and their students’ needs. Resources: Addressing Our Needs: Maslow Comes to Life for Educators and Students [link]. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Education – [link]. Source: [link] ).

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4 key ways schools can strengthen and advance cybersecurity strategies

eSchool News

In our own school corporation, we have adopted four key practices that enable us to continuously strengthen and advance our cybersecurity mitigation and prevention strategies. This enabled district leaders to see a side-by-side cost comparison of using a hosted, cloud-based firewall service versus an on-prem solution.

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Plagiarism search tools comparison

PlagiarismCheck

To show the difference between the three options, we have put up a comparison list to spotlight the main differences. Using free plagiarism checking tools is a bit more time saving strategy; however, there is no possibility to export/share the report. Once again making it teachers’ work to put all the comments and explanations.