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Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. I hope this secondary book club template provides teachers with a path for thinking about how they can develop grade-level skills while allowing students a degree of choice about what they read. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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Steps That Administrators Can Take to Address Secondary Trauma Stress

Insight Education Group

Schools are realizing the very real presence of Secondary Trauma Stress (STS). Secondary Trauma Stress or compassion fatigue is defined by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network as the “emotional duress that results when an individual hears about the firsthand trauma experiences of another. Lighten the load for educators.

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Incorporate Literacy Tools in K–12 STEM Subjects

EdTech Magazine

We have secondary students who have third-grade reading levels,” says Sharo Dickerson, director of digital and learning resources at El Paso Independent School District in Texas. K–12 students across the U.S. are struggling with literacy skills. “We

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How to Successfully Personalize Learning in Secondary Schools

Education Elements

The ability to learn and grow in an ever-changing world is what defines the very best candidates. The way these engineers code today is different than how they coded ten years ago and will be different ten years from now. Discrete knowledge isn’t important because it will soon be outdated.

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TCEA 2024: Planning and Administrator Support Are Necessary to Sustain Devices

EdTech Magazine

The last bucket of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding expires in September. To support learning, K–12 decision-makers bought everything from classroom displays to one-to-one student devices using ESSER funds. The funding cliff is looming over K–12 school districts this year.

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How School Districts Are Using Upgraded Audiovisual Tools to Improve Learning

EdTech Magazine

Now, through the federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, KCS was about to receive more than $114 million to spend on a wide range of learning improvement projects. A year or so into the pandemic, the Tennessee district had completed a detailed needs assessment that spanned every school and classroom.

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Getting the Brain Ready to Learn Math

The CoolCatTeacher

Liesl McConchie talks about how the brain learns math From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When students come into your math class, are they ready to learn? Learn How to Prepare the Brain to Teach Math with Liesl McConchie. Is their brain in a ready state?

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