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How a $5 lesson can help districts avoid a multi-million freefall when ESSER funding expires

Education Elements

Working in groups, the students were given $5 and 2 hours to make the highest possible return on their money. At the end of the challenge, each group gave a 3 minute presentation to share their process and results with their peers. They had a week to plan their strategy with almost unlimited creativity.

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Edsurge

This allows us to meet as a whole group for a 20-30 minute math and science mini-lesson at the beginning of the period, before dividing the students into small groups for the rest of class. Small group interaction, made easier by smath. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. .

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Personalized learning can be a tool for equity or a barrier to it

The Hechinger Report

A former teacher herself, Finegan said educators have to fight the urge to let students bow out of assignments that make them uncomfortable, like group work that requires collaboration with their peers. I never offer alternative curriculum to special education students,” Tigert told attendees. “I I scaffold the same content.

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Communicating Through Change: How a CA District Is Supporting Families in the Year Ahead

Edsurge

ENGAGE EQUITABLY: Communication Resources for Schools at a Time of COVID-19 & Beyond (Brooklyn Lab Charter School/Donavan Group). Communications Planning for Innovation in Education (Education Elements/TLA). “(Do Communicating About Reopening Measures with Families (The Parabola Project).

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Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This Saturday, March 4th (Sunday, March 5th, in parts of the world) is the 2017 STEM + Entrepreneurship Conference , this year's annual student-organized global conference, being held online and featuring student presenters and a student keynote speaker (with a couple of adult keynote speakers who shepherd youth projects thrown in for good measure)!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The center, as the name suggests, does legal work for civil rights and low-income groups. Immigration and Education. Via Inside Higher Ed : “A University of Virginia working group convened after white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville , Va., But for some groups, it actually backfires.”