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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. ET for a webinar “ How to Create Powerful STEM Learning Experiences with Technology, ” where I will share more about student collaboration, the engineering design process, and project-based learning.

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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

It was during one of these presentations at the National Association of Secondary School Principals Conference that I was asked by Corwin to consider writing Digital Leadership. I cannot even begin to explain the sense of pride I felt by being asked to present on the work occurring at my school.

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More high school grads are rejecting 4-year pathways

eSchool News

Key points: More than half of surveyed students say they will opt out of the traditional four-year undergraduate path This decision to pursue alternative post-secondary options hints at an evolving postsecondary landscape.

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Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button

EdNews Daily

This will ensure highest and best practices for an ever-evolving knowledge base. He has taught in the same school district his entire career with experience at both secondary and elementary levels. This system should be created with an OPEN SOURCE mentality so that it is perpetually being redesigned and refined.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

Professional development is a key part of building awareness of this absence and a knowledge-base for the educators who will be teaching students directly. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

This more comprehensive understanding of social-emotional health will spur schools to prioritize SEL as a foundational response and technology monitoring as a complimentary (but secondary) facet of student wellness and safety.

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Victims of the system

Learning with 'e's

I worked for 20 years in classrooms, am married to a secondary school teachers, and I have been involved in teacher education for more years than I care to mention. Teachers need more freedom to be able to teach across the curriculum, promoting skills as well as knowledge, and preparing students for the world they will inherit.

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