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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Starr Sackstein, author of Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students’ Social and Emotional Needs , shares an overview of what is needed so that every student feels respected even as they are given the necessary feedback to improve and level up their learning.

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How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success

Waterford

Find out what family engagement is, how to nurture it, and how to create a community built on family-teacher relationships in your school. You can encourage families to join your school’s family-teacher association or arrange virtual family-teacher meetings for families with transportation issues. What is Family Engagement?

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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

For edtech to fulfill this potential, school system leaders need to better understand how to center equity in edtech-related decisions. While this basic level of access is an important starting place, it’s time to move towards a more intentional—and equitable—system for selecting the right tools to meet student needs.

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How to direct a districtwide tech transformation on a budget

eSchool News

Fast forward 10 years, and now thousands of scholars in our district are learning to code in elementary school using engaging, hands-on tools like Ozobots , Lego Spike , and VR Labs–and that’s just where their tech journeys begin. Some teachers also felt like we were telling them how to teach. We can (and will!)

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

Edsurge

Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate. She wasn’t the only one. It started with coffee.

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It's Elementary When it Comes to #EdTech

A Principal's Reflections

As a practitioner I am always looking to learn how to better assist educators at all grade levels. Superintendent Scott Rocco provided me with a great opportunity to not only work with teachers in his district, but to also push me outside my comfort zone, which has always been secondary education.

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

As they listen, teachers can also show students how to be judgment-free listeners. This is also helpful by modeling for students how to be good listeners to their peers. Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students.

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