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Challenges Create Opportunities

A Principal's Reflections

Thus, providing support in the form of professional learning is something that all districts and schools should be investing in, whether internally or externally. The pit referred to hardships and challenges. It wasn't surprising that there were more pit responses than sweet.

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New Computational Thinking Resources for Powerful Learning

Digital Promise

Teachers around the nation are being called to integrate computational thinking into their classrooms to prepare all students to thrive in a computational world. To do this, teachers need meaningful professional learning experiences and resources to integrate computational thinking in equitable, authentic, and sustainable ways.

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Prioritizing The Most Urgent Education Challenges

Digital Promise

Social-emotional learning (#2). Student engagement (#3). More and more schools across the country are thinking beyond academic initiatives, working to broaden the definition of success to ensure all students are healthy, safe, and engaged in their learning.

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Our Quest for More R&R

A Principal's Reflections

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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Re-Engaging Students in the Learning Process

edWeb.net

She mentioned one teacher who posted students’ questions on a classroom wall and then would refer to the questions when lessons or classroom discussions overlapped with them. Integrating Resources with Student Inquiry. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast. Join the Community.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Look at this course Fostering Student Interaction in Online Learning THE VERSATILE BLOCK Using the best practices from this course, you will be able to help increase student-to-student engagement and foster a greater love of learning. Learn the techniques and develop plans to help your school improve.

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Sparking Deeper Learning Through Authentic, Real-World Experiences

EdTechTeacher

Let’s begin with a quick overview of these findings, then dive into practical resources and technologies that can help us enhance authentic experiences to deeper student learning. One of the “Four Big Shifts” that Scott McLeod references is the need for authentic work. Digital Promise Real World Learning Tools.