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Helpful Tools to Ease Learners Back into Math, Reading, and Writing

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Then follow up with differentiated instructional activities. Grades 2-12: This site, developed by the University of Texas at Austin, has CCSS-aligned downloadable performance tasks for elementary through high school including rubrics and student work samples. Khan Academy Kids. Read our review of Khan Academy Kids.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. What can that look like?

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018

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Socrates - A cutting-edge new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction through game based learning. Elementari - A fun site for digital storytelling and project based learning where students can create: digital stories, portfolios, or choose-your-own adventures.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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With students on my roster performing at a range of grade levels from elementary to beyond high school, I decided against bundled curriculum and textbooks and instead committed to building an in-house curriculum tailored to my students’ needs. Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class.

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PROOF POINTS: How can tutors reach more kids? Researchers look to ed tech

The Hechinger Report

Another tutoring researcher, Philip Oreopoulos at the University of Toronto, is studying whether once-a-week Zoom tutoring sessions at home are sufficient for some students when combined with practice problems from Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that provides free online learning.

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Helping Learners Move Beyond “I Can’t Do This”

User Generated Education

I work part-time with elementary learners – with gifted learners during the school year and teaching maker education camps during the summer. Giving learners tasks a little above their ability levels is actually a definition for differentiated instruction. Focus on mastery of learning; mastery of skills.