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The 4 Things You Should Be Looking for to Measure Student Engagement

Edthena

Counting the number of raised student hands to measure student engagement? There’s a lot more to understanding the engagement of a strong classroom, according to professional learning expert Jim Knight. Student engagement can take many forms. Are students doing the task presented to them?

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Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer)

Dangerously Irrelevant

Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. Education in a digital world [VIDEO]. Conclusion.

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How Edtech for Teachers Helps Collaboration and Professional Learning

Edthena

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Monica Burns talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about the advantages of integrating educational technology into adult learning.

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4 Shifts Video Series: Looking for some pilot schools or districts

Dangerously Irrelevant

I have a new 4 Shifts Video Series. The series consists of 7 self-paced modules and includes 38 videos, 7 lesson redesign opportunities, 6 additional instructional redesign scenarios, and other suggestions, strategies, and resources. The vast majority of individual videos and activities are 7 minutes or less. hours total.

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Latest Enhancements to Discovery Education Services Drive Deeper Student Engagement 

eSchool News

Together, these new enhancements drive deeper student engagement and offer even greater support to educators. Featuring short videos in English and Spanish that are paired with ready-to-use instructional activities, this exciting new content brings compelling natural science phenomena alive for students.  

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New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District Renews Multiyear Partnership Driving Student Engagement in Science  

eSchool News

This renewed collaboration ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to drive deeper student engagement in science instruction. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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Defining Student Engagement

A Principal's Reflections

In my District I am part of a Professional Learning Community (PLC) with other administrators. The focus of our PLC is the Classroom Walkthrough practice as a tool to improve student achievement. Defining what constitutes student engagement can be extremely tricky and quite arbitrary at best.