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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. D’Angelo witnessed in her classroom? D’Angelo did.

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Time Is the Greatest Challenge to Teaching STEM. Families Can Help.

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“In addition to time constraints, we’re limited in how much homework we can assign,” she recently told me. “We In fact, the 2018 National Study of Science and Mathematics Education reported that many elementary school teachers do not even provide science instruction every week. We have to allot most of the time to math.”

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What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle

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And then there’s the approach we’ve taken at PowerMyLearning, the nonprofit I run in New York City. Eight months earlier, Rivera students were part of a program that PowerMyLearning developed called Family Playlists. Flashback a moment to last May. It was early May—and in New York, that’s the dreaded season of testing.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

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The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. Piloting Products in Schools: Do’s and Don’ts.

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Empowering Superintendents to Connect Technology and Learning

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Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Instead of isolated lessons, students learn how to connect their studies with real-world problems.

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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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Key Questions and Recommendations for Online Assessment

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Use Assessment Data Effectively: Leaders shouldn’t rely on teachers knowing how to use and share the data with students and families. She serves on the board of PowerMyLearning Los Angeles and on the advisory board of Project Tomorrow. She has worked in public school education, K-12 and higher ed, for over 36 years.