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HP Teaching Fellows Support Students with Social-Emotional Learning

Digital Promise

Tara Bova is a second grade teacher at Barbara Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a member of her school’s Trauma-Informed Team, Tara is a passionate advocate for SEL in classrooms and uses talking circles, restorative circles, and mindfulness exercises daily to refocus and help her students feel safe and grounded.

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4 K-12 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2018

EdTech Magazine

Last fall, Microsoft also introduced a batch of relatively affordable mixed reality headsets that cut down the number of sensors needed to provide an immersive experience. In the vein of VR, Lynch also notes that virtual laboratories, which allow students to try lab exercises with no pressure of getting it right, will likely start to emerge.

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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

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Still, GitHub may prove a difficult learning curve for coding beginners and elementary-grade classes where introductory lessons tend to focus on individual exercises and projects (like making games), notes Vaidyanathan. billion acquisition offer from Microsoft. The deal is expected to be finalized later this year.

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Assessing Creative Writing Is Hard, So Here Are Three Ways To Avoid It

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These steps might be: Here’s what you write for a starter exercise. She trains coaches who work with the state’s elementary school teachers to improve reading and writing instruction. The answer was something more robust than Microsoft Word’s tracked changes or Google Docs’ version history, but along those lines.

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The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

The Hechinger Report

Sometimes the exercise prompted her to follow up with individual concerns. With the shift to digital learning, she collects that data through private weekly Microsoft Forms – using memes to illustrate moods – and has expanded her questions to include what they’re grateful for.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. I said if we're not careful, our institutions will take Steve's vision of a mental bicycle and turn it into an exercise cycle—something that's boring and doesn't go anywhere. So I wrote a paper. It was called How the Apple was Lost on the Way to School.

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Some parts of teaching are BETTER with remote learning. Here’s how to leverage that.

The Cornerstone for Teachers

In terms of specifics, she said, “Our district is using the Microsoft teams platform. I think about this one a lot particularly for the elementary level, where going to the bathroom and getting a drink can take 15 minutes of the school day because the whole class has to make a trip at once. That’s something to consider for sure.

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