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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

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We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team.

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Tips and Strategies to Boost Student Engagement

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There's little doubt that these starts, stops, and shifts have taken a toll on students' motivation and engagement in school. As we regain some sense of normalcy, many teachers report that students are struggling to get engaged in learning. featured_content_3%%.

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How to Let Students Guide Science Learning with Challenge Based Learning

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Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges. It’s exciting to see students do some of the driving. Are you interested in bringing Challenge Based Learning to your classroom?

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Schools Must Connect Learning to Real-World Experience. Service Learning Can Help.

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Many students will be returning to the classroom with different kinds of skills and relationships built during an incredibly difficult year. They’ve expanded their hobbies and interests, navigated new technology and learned how to play a role in keeping their communities healthy.

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How to Roll Out Game-Based Learning—and Boost Engagement—in Your Classroom

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Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, whose research team worked with us to produce a controlled study that would conclusively report whether game based-learning increased student achievement. Student Engagement. The other teachers reported similar feedback.

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The Professional Development Problem

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Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. Only 40 percent of teachers’ value PD activities (TNTP) and few teachers (34 percent) think professional development has improved (Gates Foundation).

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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work—Building a Successful Blended Learning Program

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Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning. It was very challenging to help educators understand how to deliver their instruction in a blended format without having observed it in action or experiencing it themselves. Here are our takeaways, three years down the road.