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As states adopt science of reading, one group calls for better teacher training, curriculum

eSchool News

Indiana is requiring new teacher training. But a national policy group says many states still have significant work to do to ensure strong reading instruction. “We Other advocacy groups have laid out different priorities for reading instruction. Mississippi passed its first reading law a decade ago.

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Subscriber Special: Group Discount on Summer PD

Ask a Tech Teacher

4 virtual training sessions. Price includes all necessary materials for a group enrollment. Other online classes available for group PD: Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. What You Get With Enrollment. 4 weeks of online, rigorous learning. We stay until everyone leaves. Certificate of Completion.

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Station Rotation Model: Grouping Strategies

Catlin Tucker

Most of us are still be trained to teach using a whole group lesson model, so reimagining a lesson to rotate students through a series of stations feels daunting. Work directly with small groups of students. When I train teachers on the Station Rotation Model, they are quick to ask how I group my students.

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Abortion bans complicate medical training, risk worsening OBGYN shortages 

The Hechinger Report

Other than me flying to Boston to go to an ACOG workshop, I have no idea how to get that training.” Wade was overturned last summer, access to abortion training was uneven. Amrita Bhagia, a second-year medical student at the University of South Dakota, traveled to Boston last fall to receive abortion training. Even before Roe v.

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Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development in Children

Digital Promise

In our lab, we want to understand whether music training during childhood improves brain functions for processing sound more generally. Music Training and the Brain. Music training has been found to be related to better language and mathematical skills, higher IQ and overall greater academic achievement.

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The mental health needs of Black and Hispanic girls often go unmet. This group wraps them in support

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The 19th Yuli Paez-Naranjo, a Working on Womanhood counselor, sported a purple WOW T-shirt as she led the group in a discussion about how values can inform decisions. “Do Some 38 percent of girls in this group showed signs of PTSD, double the rate of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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4 Ways to make sure the teachers in your school are properly trained

Neo LMS

It’s not the same if you’re training a first-grade teacher and an oil rig foreman. 4 Ways to make sure the teachers in your school are properly trained. First, give them the right materials, provide the right training resources and get all the learning devices they need (within reason). Think about logistics.

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