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Want Students to Remember What They Learn? Have Them Teach It.

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I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships. Learning by teaching can help improve student efficacy, confidence and communication skills.

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What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle

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Further evidence of this trend includes the hundreds of teachers supported by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching who are trying out classroom strategies to help students persist through difficult in-class assignments. And then there’s the approach we’ve taken at PowerMyLearning, the nonprofit I run in New York City.

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Empowering Superintendents to Connect Technology and Learning

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In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. The Five Imperatives of Technology Leadership , the presenters explored how they have shifted their approaches to integrating edtech in the classroom.

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Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’

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For the past 18 months, a pilot program in a South Bronx public school, called “Family Playlists,” developed by the New York-based nonprofit, PowerMyLearning , has used technology to increase families’ involvement in their students’ learning. That approach resonated well with PowerMyLearning, which Stock started in 1999.

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Essential Elements for Moving to a 1:1 Environment

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Moving to a 1:1 environment requires an overhaul of every district building and technology resource. Whether the school’s tech-savvy teachers have the new tool first or everyone receives it at the same time, the speakers agreed that all teachers need to have the technology in their hands at least six months before the students.

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Key Questions and Recommendations for Online Assessment

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Embed Technology in Instructional Practice: If students are going to be tested with tech, then they need to be learning that way on a regular basis. Use Assessment Data Effectively: Leaders shouldn’t rely on teachers knowing how to use and share the data with students and families. Join the Community.