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How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. Second graders will learn about early India and China with this digital textbook. Learners will study geography and contributions of both civilizations, while also reading poems and folktales.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

Edsurge

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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Contact Tracing? Sports? Experts Explain School Reopening Research and Recommendations

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In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its operational strategy guide for K-12 schools, a collection of prevention strategies and implementation tips for safe in-person learning. That same month, the U.S. What follows is a sampling of their remarks. That could be a random sample of teachers and students.

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When the future of learning includes teacher training, too

The Hechinger Report

Fourth grade teacher Milton Bryant works with students in a small group during a blended learning session at Ketcham Elementary School. Some districts have taken a page from the “flipped learninghandbook, asking teachers to read background materials or watch videos in advance of actual seminars. Photo: Nichole Dobo).

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

In Toppenish School District in Washington State, serving Yakima County, however, the transfer of a student to online learning for 10 to 20 school days is used as a top-tier disciplinary sanction, according to its student handbook. The district did not respond to requests for comment. “I Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class

The Hechinger Report

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out. Racism is so blatantly written into the policies,” said Clea McNeely, a University of Tennessee research professor who studied attendance policies in a nationally representative sample of 97 school districts.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

. — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”. Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school.