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5 Steps to Get Started with Spaces EDU

Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler

Use a FREE Spaces EDU account to engage and interact with students. Here are 5 steps to get started with Spaces EDU. The post 5 Steps to Get Started with Spaces EDU appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Teaching Early Geometry Concepts

Ask a Tech Teacher

I spend a lot of time every week reading about current thinking in education. An article over at The Tech Edvocate caught my eye on early math. Math is a fundamental process in learning, not just adding and subtracting but to develops skill in problem solving and critical thinking. Scientists think that the sophistication of stone toolmaking almost a million years ago showed the symbolic and spatial thinking ability already present in our ancestors–a million years ago!

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Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain

TeachThought - Learn better.

The feeling that I get observing students learning for themselves and assuming ownership of their experience is pure joy. The post Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain appeared first on TeachThought.

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Blurring the lines between education and workforce

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students.

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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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Jefferson County Public Schools Raises Math and Reading NWEA MAP Growth Scores with FEV Tutor

eSchool News

WOBURN, Mass. – June 23, 2022 – Students in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) who participated in online tutoring sessions with FEV Tutor , the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, demonstrated accelerated rates of growth relative to national norms in both math and reading on the NWEA MAP Growth Assessments. Students who participated in higher dosages of FEV Tutor showed the greatest gains, surpassing national RIT growth norms as well as the growth of non-participants and s

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Top Sites and Resources to Support LGTBQ+ Students

techlearning

It’s estimated that nearly two million American youth aged 13-17 identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

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How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

MiddleWeb

In The Power of Regret, creativity and motivation author Dan Pink finds that regrets can make us stronger and more effective in our work. Professional learning consultant Cathy Gassenheimer encourages educators to consider how Pink’s four types of regrets relate to our lives. The post How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Kajeet Awards $550,000 To 22 Organizations for Purchasing Connectivity Solutions That Drive Digital Inclusion in Education

eSchool News

MCLEAN, VA. (PRWEB) JUNE 23, 2022 — Kajeet® , a leading provider of wireless connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver secure, reliable and managed IoT solutions to over 3,000 businesses, schools and districts, and state and local governments, today announced the 22 recipients of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant. To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any

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MEGA 2022

N2Y

We’re excited to be exhibiting at the Alabama State Department of Education’s 2022 MEGA Conference in Mobile, Alabama! We look forward to hearing from you and sharing proven ways for you to support your students with disabilities. Come by our booth to explore our new collaborative IEP development solution, Polaris, and discover how it ensures every student has a clear, expertly guided path to success.

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What’s keeping districts from spending COVID relief funding?

eSchool News

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). But why aren’t schools spending the money? The answer–or, more accurately, answers–offers a glimpse into the complicated state of post- COVID education. Districts received funds based on their Title I funding, and ESSER funds must be spent by September 2024.

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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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Why Do Students Struggle with Mathematics?

N2Y

More students don’t meet mathematics standards than meet standards in the U.S.—and the percentage not meeting standards goes up at checkpoints in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades! This performance greatly impacts the future of these children, limiting their potentials for employment and advanced education. To improve math performance across the U.S., it is important to tackle this systemic problem by implementing evidence-based instructional practices (EBPs) on key mathematics constructs f

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Lexia Learning’s Founder, Robert Arthur Lemire, Dies at Eighty-Nine

eSchool News

BOSTON (June 23, 2022) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, is saddened to announce that the company’s founder, Robert A. Lemire died on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Lemire was eighty-nine and passed away following a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Lemire created Lexia Learning in 1984 after watching his son struggle to learn to read.

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Improving Students’ Mental Health Systematically and Individually

edWeb.net

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Today’s students face an unprecedented combination of challenges and issues that can interfere with their well-being and disrupt their learning, but there are also new opportunities to provide districtwide support for their mental health while helping individual students learn to help themselves. Ways to implement and align school district programs and a personalized approach for each student were discussed during the edLeader Panel, “ Improve Men

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Saint Louis University School of Education and BloomBoard Partner to Help School Districts Elevate the Careers of Paraprofessionals and Address Teacher Workforce Shortage

eSchool News

ST. LOUIS, MO (June 23, 2022) — Saint Louis University School of Education and BloomBoard have partnered to announce a new initiative to help superintendents and school boards address the current crisis of teacher recruitment and retention. The initiative will include the development of collaborative strategies with school districts and educational leaders to enhance the number of PK-12 teachers to meet the needs of today’s students. .

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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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Schools Are Looking for Evidence From Their Edtech. Are Companies Ready to Provide It?

Edsurge

Schools are awash in technology in a way never before seen, thanks to the mad dash toward digital that was prompted by the pandemic a little more than two years ago. But how well that technology works to improve outcomes for kids—or when it works, for whom, and under what conditions—remains a mystery to, well, everyone. That’s mostly because the research and evaluation necessary to find out hasn’t been conducted.

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Aperture Education Creates New Tool to Support School Districts that are using the Harmony SEL Curriculum

eSchool News

Charlotte N.C. (June 23, 2022) — A new tool from Aperture Education helps schools and districts use data from Aperture’s DESSA SEL assessment alongside the popular Harmony SEL curriculum in a more strategic way to support students. The Harmony SEL Crosswalk identifies the areas in which the DESSA aligns with Harmony’s curriculum. This helps schools and districts understand how to differentiate support in Harmony lessons to have the most impact on students.

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Updated Conference Keynote Panel + Final Call for Proposals - "Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022. Urban libraries are uniquely positioned to support the resiliency of their local communities and to deliver vital services to help individuals live their best lives.