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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. A challenging exercise for students using the hashtag concept is to develop a relevant hashtag for a particular event or lesson concept. “Two hundred, three hundred one thousand,” they probed.

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How to Introduce Historical Thinking Skills to Your Students, and Why You Should

Waterford

Historical thinking is a “tool for helping students at practically any level learn how to formulate and support arguments based on primary sources, as well as to understand and challenge historical interpretations related in secondary sources.”[2]. How would the circumstances of the time have affected the document’s content?

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Our Research Shows Educators Are Experiencing Trauma During the Pandemic. Here’s How We Can Reduce the Burden.

Edsurge

Since the onset of the pandemic nearly a year ago, educators have been tasked with addressing new, multi-layered challenges due to the primary and secondary trauma associated with COVID-19. Finally, coordination of supports for educators will be important in addressing the secondary traumatic stress they have experienced over the past year.

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Post-Lesson Reflection: What Do Students Think They Learned?

Catlin Tucker

At the secondary level, I like the learning blog over individual documents. By the end of the five-minute exercise, I had a clear sense of what they felt confident about and what they were struggling with. A learning blog encourages students to capture their reflections in one online location that is easy to access and review.

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STUDENT VOICE: I had fewer opportunities after California banned affirmative action

The Hechinger Report

In anticipation of the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action, the court must exercise caution to avert detrimental impacts on the educational aspirations of Latino and Black students. I was just four years old when affirmative action was banned in California over 25 years ago. As a result of this, my aspirations were low.

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Understanding the MTSS Tiered Framework

Lightspeed Systems

As primary and secondary schooling takes up a large portion of a child’s life, it’s at school where struggling children are frequently identified. Teachers will invest time and effort into discussing student needs, creating plans, providing differentiated support, and documenting their results.

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Giving Students Flexibility With Competency-Based Education

Digital Promise

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. Interestingly, what I saw were classrooms that on the surface looked quite traditional, with students working on the same lesson or exercise. I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad.