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From digital citizenship to digital leadership in a South Carolina elementary school

Hapara

I am currently a fifth grade teacher and Digital Learning Coach at Oak Grove Elementary School in Lexington, South Carolina. Being in an elementary classroom, it is hard to help students understand how their digital habits affect themselves and others. The certification training definitely helped us understand the ins and outs of H?para

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Why Santa Fe Broke the K-12 Model and Chose a Different Curriculum for the Middle Grades

Edsurge

And they found MidSchoolMath —much to the delight of Erica Wheeler, Lead Instructional Materials Coordinator for Santa Fe Public Schools. We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This definitely fits into that. You need a teacher who knows how to facilitate that, but these materials are really designed for it.

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The challenges of mobile learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

This is especially evident over the decade, as schools have increasingly adopted mobile learning as a signature initiative using BYOD and 1:1 programs and investing in tablets to provide their students with access to a wealth of relevant educational content and learning opportunities. Designing learning materials for mobile devices.

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Transforming a School District’s Leadership and Literacy Instruction to Increase Equity

edWeb.net

In the Aldine Independent School District just outside of Houston, Texas, the need for change resulted in a dual focus on improving the district’s leadership bench and revamping literacy instruction, in order to provide an equitable education for all students. Transforming Leadership.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

Edsurge

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Linda Edgecomb is the principal of Golden Grove Elementary and a huge fan of Stinky Feet Day. special education) students, it was only 1.12.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

eSchool News

Amidst the tectonic shifts that may be on the global horizon, there’s a comparatively smaller phenomenon brewing in US K-12 education. Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s.

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Those Darn Knowledge Gaps!

Knowledge Avatars K-12

One summer, when I was in elementary school, I was terrified! Our teacher, to her credit, tried to help students to review and learn last years' concepts, but alas had to abandon the effort because the of the pressure to cover new material. For each concept, you need to have instructional materials to teach and to test the concept.