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Clark County School District Gives Educators in 241 Elementary Schools Access to Lexia’s LETRS Professional Learning

eSchool News

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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20 Texas Education Leaders to Follow on Twitter

MIND Research Institute

These educators use Twitter as an effective tool to engage others in conversation and share their knowledge—all in an effort to teach the state's future leaders. In no particular order, here are some of my colleagues' and my favorite educational Twitter accounts from deep in the heart of Texas. Administrators to Follow on Twitter.

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From Challenge to Triumph: The Learning Pit Concept Explained

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is the Learning Pit metaphor? They don't like the outcome. It works pretty well for higher elementary and middle schools particularly, as in that video does. How can this illustration be used with students to help them learn?

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4 Tips for Reigniting Creativity in the Classroom

Digital Promise

As a math teacher, he realized he had been fostering creativity in his students by encouraging them to try different ways of solving problems and share with the class what they learned, regardless of outcome. To combat this, Morgado offers grades on process instead of the outcome.

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5 Tips That Foster Collaborative Professional Learning

EdTech Magazine

A few years ago, a group at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction that paid for notebooks and software for creating a professional development program for elementary school teachers. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. .

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4 Ways to Get a K–12 Student Help Desk Going

EdTech Magazine

A majority of administrators from elementary schools (64 percent), middle schools ( 83 percent ) and high schools ( 85 percent ) report they have already implemented one-to-one devices or see it as a primary goal, according to a 2018 K–12 leadership survey from the Consortium for School Networking. . by Jennifer Brown.

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Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula

EdTech Magazine

When we did this research, we were looking to figure out what are best practices for creating a computer science program at the elementary level. . So, is that investment in computer science programming having the intended outcome? This means asking what outcome you anticipate from an elementary computer science program.

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