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K-12 staffing shortages threaten reading instruction–AI can help

eSchool News

The challenges facing K-12 leaders as they start the new school year are enormous. For instance, the latest test results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that fourth graders’ average reading skills have dropped by five points on a 500-point scale since the start of the pandemic—the biggest decline in more than 30 years.

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How K–12 Schools Can Overcome Common One-to-One Device Hurdles

EdTech Magazine

School-issued laptops became a valuable bridge to learning and community when schools switched to remote learning during the pandemic lockdown. Now that students are back in the classroom with their devices in tow, educators are beginning to unlock their potential for in-person learning through one-to-one programs. “Teachers no longer have to fight for labs and carts, nor do they have to book time for shared devices,” says Keith Onstot, technology integration curriculum developer at Bellevue Sch

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How Schools and Districts are Supporting Digital Equity

Digital Promise

The post How Schools and Districts are Supporting Digital Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Can Brain Fitness be Education’s Moon Shot?

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark During global Brain Awareness Week, some seven years ago in March 2015, The Kennedy Forum convened experts at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, MA to consider perspectives and review (then) recent findings on brain research. Representatives from the fields of neuroscience, pediatrics, psychology, mindfulness, neurocognitive behavior, education, healthcare, research, and technology gathered to explore ways to effectively convert brain health and fitness knowledge

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

Hapara

Wolf Creek Public Schools faced many challenges in their expansive division, including achievement level gaps and high student needs. So, they decided to make a change to address the needs of all learners. . Nestled in the rural territory of Alberta, Canada, Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) consists of 29 schools that serve over 7,300 K-12 students, including 10% or 750 who self-identify as First Nations, Inuit or Metis. .

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Matters of Principal: Supporting Staff

EdNews Daily

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay In our previous column, The Pillars of Principalship, we stressed the importance of establishing foundational pieces that will provide the underlying support and structure for all stakeholders and all day-to-day school operations. Administrators must now focus on both establishing new and enhancing existing working relationships with all staff members.

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The Problem with Education’s Problems: (Part 3) Achievement Loss

EdNews Daily

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. In part one, we addressed the teacher shortage and found that it is not the problem, it is a challenge. In part two, we addressed student attrition, loss of enrollment to any alternatives, and found that it too, is not the problem.

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What Should Colleges Do to Help Students Find Jobs?

Edsurge

What should the college career center look like in this moment of seismic shifts in the job market and the economy—and growing skepticism of whether going to college pays off? Colleges have been rethinking how they provide career services, especially since the pandemic forced more services online. And it turns out a lot is at stake for colleges: After all, if higher ed is an engine of opportunity, it’s not enough to just get students to and through college.

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When it Comes to Wanting Nothing, Timing is Everything

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik I read a piece in one of the weekly education publications; a superintendent had been quoted warning of the funding cliff coming in two years. This supe seemed to be making the best of it, not spending his stimulus money so he could avoid the unavoidable cliff. I couldn’t tell whether the supe was taken out of context, but I have to believe he was.

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What Students Need in Civic Education Now

MiddleWeb

In Becoming Active Citizens Tom Driscoll and Shawn W. McCusker offer a compendium of the latest approaches and ideas in civic education. Their ideas equip teachers across academic disciplines with the tools to navigate this ever-changing landscape, writes Sarah Cooper. The post What Students Need in Civic Education Now first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Give Us More Tools to Make Sense of K-12 Data, School Superintendents Say

Marketplace K-12

Superintendents are looking for tools or technology that help them make better use of data, according to a new survey from the Data Quality Campaign. The post Give Us More Tools to Make Sense of K-12 Data, School Superintendents Say appeared first on Market Brief.

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Fun Math Games to Help Students Practice Math Concepts and Skills

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

We all know that games and fun learning activities are more conducive to meaningful learning experiences and a higher level of students engagement and participation. This is even so with subjects that are notoriously known for being dry and boring such as math. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class.

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How schools can become air quality champions this year

eSchool News

The COVID-19 pandemic affected every aspect of our lives for more than two years, but perhaps the hardest hit population were children who suddenly found themselves unable to go to school. This was disruptive not only from an educational standpoint, but socially, as well. That’s why school districts have done everything in their power so that children can experience a normal 2022–2023 school year.

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Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!)

Shake Up Learning

The post Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Remember using popsicle sticks with students’ names to randomly call on students in class? Did you know there is a random student selector in the Google Classroom mobile app? Use this to randomly select students to call on in class. It’s super simple but ONLY available in the mobile app!

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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"Hispanic Heritage Month Symposium" - Tuesday, October 11th, an SJSU iSchool Online Event

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The School of Information at San José State University is the founding sponsor of the Library 2.0 conference series, a partnership we have had for 12 years. Please consider attending their free upcoming symposium. Hispanic Heritage Month Symposium Unifying the Information Community OCTOBER 11, 2022 - 10:00AM - 12:00PM DR. ROMELIA SALINAS ROMA CALATAYUD-STOCKS DR.

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MIND Research Institute Debuts InsightMath, a Neuroscience-Based Elementary Curriculum

eSchool News

IRVINE, Calif. — MIND Research Institute , a neuroscience and education social impact organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world’s most challenging problems, today announced InsightMath, a core elementary curriculum that transforms student learning by teaching math the way the brain learns will launch in Spring 2024.

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEL can sometimes feel like “one more thing” we have to do, and can sometimes feel inauthentic to students. This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content.

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SkriLab Receives ISTE Seal of Alignment

eSchool News

(Warsaw, Poland) – Skriware, an international edtech company providing schools with equipment and lesson plans that enable practical and hands-on education in the spirit of STEAM, earned the Seal of Alignment from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) for its educational laboratory, SkriLab. This seal of alignment, and Skriware’s sales and marketing partnership with New Ascent Education, marks the company’s expansion into the U.S. education market.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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Engaging Animal Sounds!

SpeechTechie

Try this Google Earth "quiz" on animal sounds from NPR's Science Friday to engage your students! I have mentioned before and on the Talking with Tech podcast that quiz-like activities can be a great way to build semantic knowledge and structure a conversation. In addition to prompting attentive listening, this one will let you play animal sounds, sometimes hilarious, and discuss: -descriptive attributes from the photos -animal groups and families -geographic locations and descriptions of setting

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A LOOK AT INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED CREDENTIALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

American Consortium for Equity in Education

A LOOK AT INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED CREDENTIALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; Dr. Amber Northern of The Fordham Institute gives us the facts and the research living up to expectations , etc ** Everything we do is linked at the home website of The American. Keep Reading A LOOK AT INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED CREDENTIALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. The post A LOOK AT INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED CREDENTIALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education

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Senators call for stronger rules to reduce off-the-books suspensions

The Hechinger Report

WASHINGTON (AP) – Two Democratic senators urged the Department of Education to strengthen regulations against excluding schoolchildren from class because of behaviors related to a disability – a practice known as informal removal. This story also appeared in The Associated Press. Since the pandemic began, parents of kids with disabilities say the practice has been on the rise, denying their kids the legal right to an education.

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EQUITABLE COVID RELIEF FOR SCHOOLS

American Consortium for Equity in Education

EQUITABLE COVID RELIEF FOR SCHOOLS CCSSO’s Austin Estes is Director of CCSSO’s COVID Relief Data Project .at [link] ** Everything we do is linked at the home website of The American Consortium for Equity in Education at ace-ed.org: 1.Teacher-Retention.com and Teaching. Keep Reading EQUITABLE COVID RELIEF FOR SCHOOLS. The post EQUITABLE COVID RELIEF FOR SCHOOLS appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.