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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. to asking “Will it work for whom?”

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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For example, Marylands state board has flagged that it wants every student career ready by the end of 10th grade. But in high school, teachers more typically create their own curriculum, despite a lack of training how to design curriculum. That includes how job skills play into math paths for students.

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Up the Class Tempo with 17 Music Activities for Elementary Students

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It even helps students connect to their cultural roots in meaningful ways. No Prep Ta and Ti-Ti Music Worksheets By Aileen Miracle Grade: 1st-2nd Using the ta and ti-ti notes, students read and write patterns, copy patterns, and color patterns. But don’t hit pause there: Music and movement are key players in a child’s development.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Global Perspectives on Education Education’s landscape varies dramatically across the globe, reflecting diverse cultural, economic, and political contexts. Something broke in American education these past years.

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Teachers From Mexico Give English Learners a Boost in Small Texas School District

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Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. The students light up when they realize that I understand their language and culture. It creates a real connection, she said.

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Turning around data culture and student learning

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Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina. The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students.

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

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Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992. About MathWorks.