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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)

Dangerously Irrelevant

I did all of this twice, the first week with elementary educators and the second week with secondary teachers (so 8 days total). I then facilitated 3 follow-up sessions over the next day and a half, working with elementary, middle, and high school administrators and their building leadership teams. All of this work was virtual.

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Summer school programs race to help students most in danger of falling behind

The Hechinger Report

A push to close early learning gaps in Texas. Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Down the hall, students in small groups worked on reading and math. Playing catch-up in districts that were already struggling.

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How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads

The Hechinger Report

Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders to a small, white robot called Sphero. Nationwide, girls who take classes in computer science are a minority , and black girls, proportionately, make up an even smaller group.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

The participants: Large district: Dr. Daryl Diamond, Director of Innovative Learning, Broward County Public Schools, FL. Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center, South Park Township, PA. Howard was a senior robotics researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Small district: Dr. L. and Mark C.

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Is it finally time for year-round school?

The Hechinger Report

In addition to mitigating learning loss, it was seen by school leaders as a way to ease overcrowding by enabling different groups of students to attend at different times, he said, and to help with teacher burnout through more frequent breaks. There are plans for camps, possibly for fine arts, robotics or coding. “We

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

based education advocacy group. “It It became clear quite quickly that an investment in stuff, in boxes that plug in, is not really going to pay off with a lot of learning or classroom innovation unless there’s somebody to guide that process.”. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. education system.

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