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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

A flexible classroom is a learning environment that utilizes an “agile physical setup that will accommodate both independent and group work,” according to a CDW white paper on constructing modern classrooms. It’s important that kids be allowed to do the same.”.

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Mentoring Minds Launches Mobile App to Support Instruction and Student Success

eSchool News

Word Play Activities: Boost vocabulary connection with a pool of fun and engaging exercises. Learn With Us’ blog: Enjoy quick access to our blog for articles, white papers, and upcoming webinars and events. Print them out or “flip” your device to reveal! This module also features printable graphic organizers! per year.

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Is Your School Modern? Check Out These 10 Principles to Find Out

The Innovative Educator

This is the question educators and authors Will Richardson and Bruce Dixon answer in their white paper 10 Principles For Schools of Modern Learning: The Urgent Case for Reimagining Today’s Schools. Read the full white paper to discover why each Principle is important and steps to put it into action.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. Tell us about some of those learning beliefs, about what you want your classrooms to look like. Tell us about your learning beliefs. Lynn: Sure. We’ve adopted some of their core beliefs.

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Thanksgiving Activities For Kids

Fractus Learning

The turkey craft-free template prints the turkey pieces on white paper to cut out and color. Kids can create unique turkeys by cutting the feathers on construction paper and coloring them in colorful shades, glue dots, googly eyes, a bunch of corn pits, pieces of candy corn, or simple shapes.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

Rather than by buying “ads on television” or seeking “success in ball-throwing exercises,” he said, universities “become great when their students become Rhodes Scholars or their faculty win Nobel Prizes.”. Last fall, a white paper by O.U.’s Related: How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis.

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Reflecting on Grids and Gestures

ProfHacker

Along with many folks on Twitter, I participated in this daily exercise of chronicling a day through a grid and a series of gestures, loosely defined, without trying to “draw” so much as interpret ideas and emotions. Do you have a favorite daily creative exercise? Share your ideas in the comments!