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To Retain College Students, Look to Academic Support and Campus Activities, New Report Finds

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A new report on the effects college programs have on student retention attempts to answer that question. For its new report, Civitas dug into the data it helps colleges collect on students’ daily activities to figure out which programs most correlate with better retention from year to year.

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3 Ways Districts Can Rethink Teacher Professional Development

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I sat through many sit-and-get lectures and inapplicable seminars and, while I hate to admit it, I often brought papers to grade because I felt that was a more valuable use of my time. Recently, microcredentials and digital badges have entered onto the professional learning scene.

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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

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Classroom teachers can help facilitate that through the introduction of sentence stems, blogging, and Socratic seminars. Digital Badging. If you can make this change about the students and not about referrals or school report cards, it will work. More on that here.). Goal Setting. Providing Support.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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More than 50% of teachers report they have one computer for every student (on average) and that changes for the better every year. Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. Not anymore.