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Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

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MathWorks has partnered with the Museum since 2010 to bring TSW to school classrooms, supporting program growth as well as the development of virtual workshops and distance learning resources for teachers during the pandemic. TSW is on pace to serve more than 42,000 students this school year, outpacing pre-pandemic numbers.

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New Data from Rave Mobile Safety Shows Schools’ Top Safety Concerns About Returning to the Classroom

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While parent preference (43%) and a belief in the importance of in-person learning (50%) are factors in the decision whether to return to the classroom or not, most school leaders report that state (81%) and local (57%) governments are major influencers in that decision.

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Grades Fail at Motivating Students. Intrinsic Motivation Works Better.

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We are approaching the two month mark since schools shut their doors in response to COVID-19, and we are now entering a new phase in the learning process. Despite an optimistic start, educators and students alike are realizing that remote learning is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Perhaps all this is for the best.

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School Counselor of the Year Reflects on What Students and Teachers Lost and Gained in 2022

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For example, we added more K-2 teachers to decrease the student-to-teacher ratio for our youngest students who spent their earliest years in distance learning. These resources have bolstered our teaching, strengthened our connections with families and improved access to high-quality health care and social services.

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From DC Chancellor to Edtech Founder: Kaya Henderson on Her New Venture in Culturally-Relevant Education

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But when we looked at what was happening with distance learning over the spring, and when we looked at the lack of content that young people had access to, we knew that parents and families would be looking for additional content to share with their young people.

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The Administration of a Higher Education Faculty Online Learning Community

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Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Bringing Restorative Justice to Schools Must Start With Community

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Hall as a way of understanding that the easily visible aspects of a culture makes up only 10 percent of that culture, and the remaining 90 percent are considered the “invisible” aspects of a culture's values and beliefs. As students returned from distance learning, these values were posted on the walls of each middle school classroom.

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