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Friday 5: Student learning under the microscope

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Student engagement is critical in ensuring–and boosting–student achievement. At its heart, student engagement is about tapping into students’ innate curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Every teacher hopes to ignite, empower, and engage the students who walk through their classroom door.

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To Prepare Kids for Their Futures, Incorporate Technology Into Core Curriculum

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Our nation’s employers report that creativity and critical thinking are the most valuable skills an employee can have. Thankfully, increasingly accessible technology is allowing teachers to look beyond textbooks, worksheets, and five paragraph essays. We can do that by thinking strategically about these challenges.