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3 ways families can support students’ learning at home

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For example, we offer family coffee chats and family workshops that provide practical strategies and ways to support their own mental health and wellbeing—as well as their children’s. Here are three strategies that have resonated with our families: 1. Try “learning by teaching”.

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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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For 16 years Ann led the team in Klein ISD that provided professional development on technology and 21st century instructional strategies to over 4,000 professional educators serving over 50,000 students. She serves on the board of PowerMyLearning Los Angeles and on the advisory board of Project Tomorrow. Join the Community.

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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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Five Steps to Ensure Accessibility for All

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Educators need to perform regular evaluations of how the policies, teaching strategies, technology, curriculum, etc., For 16 years Ann led the team in Klein ISD that provided professional development on technology and 21st century instructional strategies to over 4,000 professional educators serving over 50,000 students.

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Five Critical Guidelines for Data Privacy Across School Districts

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For 16 years Ann led the team in Klein ISD that provided professional development on technology and 21st century instructional strategies to over 4,000 professional educators serving over 50,000 students. She serves on the board of PowerMyLearning Los Angeles and on the advisory board of Project Tomorrow. Join the Community.