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PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds

The Hechinger Report

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. Many said that their existing materials weren’t connected to their students’ languages and cultures. Sign up for Proof Points and other Hechinger newsletters.

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Testimony in Favor of Texas SB 6 Instructional Materials Allotment

EdTechSandyK

Today I gave testimony in favor of the passage of Texas SB 6 , which institutes an Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) in lieu of the textbook allotment and the former Technology Allotment. Everything I accessed was an instructional material with content relevant to my course of study. Another 37.8%

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How to Build Collaborative Relationships With Paraprofessionals

N2Y

Schedule time to discuss this critical information with them and include them in your planning, so that they understand what you are doing with students, how to manage/address certain behaviors and struggles and what they can do to help. You can even teach your paras how to track data for behavioral and academic goals.

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A Very Useful Guide to Virtual Classroom Collaboration

The CoolCatTeacher

Collaborate with faculty to support them in an instructional design capacity, inspiring and helping them implement engaging curricular units around instructional technology and innovation. Develop training and instructional materials for faculty to enhance their fluency with available technologies and software.

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Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say. play a guess-the-number game with different colored counters.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

Edsurge

At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data. At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data. One recommendation from “Where Teachers Thrive” is ensuring that schools provide teachers with appropriate curricula and materials, rather than expecting teachers to devise or find their own. This is a crisis.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.