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Phonics vs Phonological Awareness: A Guide Informed by the Science of Reading

Waterford

Read on to discover the difference between phonics and phonological awareness, as well as how they’re connected. Plus, find school and classroom resources for teaching both skills to early elementary learners.

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Choice Boards 101: Strategies to Ensure Classroom, Professional, and Virtual Learning Success

A Principal's Reflections

As of late, I have been working with quite a few districts on personalization through a variety of blended learning strategies. My experience in this area began over three years ago, thanks to having the opportunity to coach teachers and administrators at Wells Elementary School. Ownership of learning shouldn’t just be for students.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. The post How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

But it stands to reason that we must help students know how to effectively use these tools so they do not hinder and that they help But do they know how to use technology effectively? And how much is too much? Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

Edsurge

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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Shoot, I Did It Again: 3 More Ways to Implement Video in Professional Learning

Edsurge

More and more schools and organizations are wanting to integrate video as a professional learning tool for teachers. At Edthena , a video coaching and professional learning platform, we work with many organizations working with video for the first time. Teachers share the video with their group.

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

Dangerously Irrelevant

Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. We met virtually for 2 hours every day for 4 days.