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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data.

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How one state is incorporating data science in every subject – even art

The Hechinger Report

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. One reason is the shifting job market, said Zarek Drozda, director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative based at the University of Chicago.

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Unleashing Metacognition: The Power of See, Think, Wonder

Catlin Tucker

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. The final stage of this thinking routine is “wondering.”

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Teacher Layoffs Are Coming as Pandemic Relief Money for Schools Dries Up

Edsurge

As school boards prepare to approve their budgets for the fall, many are grappling with how to make up for the yawning chasm left by the loss of federal pandemic-relief dollars. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

Secondary 147
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Three Questions to Center Equity in Your Edtech Procurement

Digital Promise

Last year, I worked with my team at The Learning Accelerator and colleagues at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop an Edtech Systems Guide that outlines best practices for equity-driven edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation. hands-on basic training, on-demand how-to videos, etc.)

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Data That Educators Need to Reopen Schools Isn’t Coming. So They’re Collecting It Themselves.

Edsurge

Yet without a coordinated national response to the crisis, reliable data that could help inform policy is scarce. School leaders trying to make decisions about whether and how to reopen physical classrooms this fall are feeling the absence of useful statistics acutely. News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable.

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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

They know how to do distance learning. In this session, we’ll share where we are now, emotional trauma and learning, how effective distance learning compares to face to face learning, how to take your class online, accessibility and equity, assessment, and project-based learning. She received her M.Ed.