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Let’s Help Teachers Grow by Coaching — Not Micromanaging — Them

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Therefore, despite all the reforms aimed at building a corps of skilled career educators, teachers are still quitting at alarming rates—a vast and expensive problem that disproportionately affects our most vulnerable students. Ideally, students will come to know instructional coaches as part of a team of adults supporting them.

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?Goodbye College Advising, Hello College Coaching

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Education technology is riddled with acronyms, and here’s another one to boot: iPASS. It stands for “integrated planning and advising student success” which in practice looks like new approaches to academic advising and degree planning services with the help of new technologies.

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The Opportunities and Drawbacks of AI-Powered Reading Coaches, Assistants and Tutors

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Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support. While the latter may entertain, the former serve to educate. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged.

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Study: Adaptive literacy program could reduce summer slide

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An independent study from Johns Hopkins University shows that a program designed to reverse “summer slide” at scale showed real impact on student engagement and Lexile growth for students who read on the adaptive literacy platform LightSail for as little as 30 minutes per day. The demographics of the student cohort studied are 91.7

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Increased Screen Time May Indicate Family Stress, Pandemic Study Suggests

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A new study aims to make sense of these phenomena and draw fresh conclusions about what it really means when kids spend hours looking at cell phones, computers or televisions. Such a large shift in family behavior did not come because millions of parents suddenly “changed their minds about the dangers of screen time,” the study says.

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How This District Tech Coach Still Makes Time to Teach — in a Multi-Sensory Immersive Room

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He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. What brought you to your role as a technology coach? I’d tell them I am a technology coach, and most people are like, ‘What is that?’

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Coaches Do More Than Teach Athletics. They Build Strength On and Off the Field.

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My experiences on the field taught me patience and positivity, how to study the game and contribute from a different position. As a coach, I use a holistic approach in my training. I believe coaches are way to unite school communities. Thanks, Coach!” Growing up, sports were always a huge part of my life.

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