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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages. SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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Why Education Power Trumps Voice

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Personalized learning and rigor are not mutually exclusive.” - @erinmote #nsvfsummit [link]. But this year’s NSVF lunch plenary focused solely on parents, a group that often gets forgotten or left out of the conversation according to Innovate Public Schools founder and CEO Matt Hammer. NewSchools (@nsvf) May 18, 2017.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The first thing the group did, Mickens said, was to start tracking the number of public school students in Oakland who already had a device and internet service, and those who didn’t.