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Helping Kids Be Healthy and Whole While Learning from Home

The CoolCatTeacher

Roots to Empathy , MindUp ) Dr. Kim has over 100 publications in scholarly journals, book chapters, and reports and has edited two books on mindfulness in education, including a co-edited book (with Dr. Robert W.

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

So, it should not be surprising that only 27% of 8th and 12th-grade students earned a score of proficient in writing in the last report published in 2011 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading: A report from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Kiuhara, S.

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Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home

The CoolCatTeacher

Roots to Empathy , MindUp ) Dr. Kim has over 100 publications in scholarly journals, book chapters, and reports and has edited two books on mindfulness in education, including a co-edited book (with Dr. Robert W.

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How I Helped Students Reclaim Pride for Their Black Hair With My Curriculum

Edsurge

When I come across news reports or a research study that highlights the race-based discrimination that Black students experience in U.S. This was the guideline codified in the student handbook of the school I called home during the first two years of my teaching career.

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How to Manage Student Devices for Remote Learning

Digital Promise

Come up with a system for when students report broken devices. Review the Staff Responsible Use policy in your employee handbook and remember that the policy still applies to working from home. For example, in one Wisconsin school district, after the student fills out a help desk ticket, an exchange is scheduled at a designated site.

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

Algorithms are “precise step-by-step plans or procedures to meet an end goal or to solve a problem” (Shuchi Grover in Computer Science in K-12: An A-To-Z Handbook on Teaching Programming ). Making and Describing Algorithms. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom?

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What Adults With Certificates But No College Degree Say About Their Job Experiences

Edsurge

Those with no degree but a certificate reported a median annual income of $45,000, compared to $30,000 for those with no degree and no certificate. According to a previous Lumina Foundation report , about 5 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 64 have a professional certificate as their highest credential.

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