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5 online resources to beat the summer slide

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Khan Academy : Khan Academy’s free online platform offers comprehensive lessons in math, science, history, and more. The platform also features an Article-A-Day challenge that encourages students to build background knowledge and reading stamina with just 10 minutes a day.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

Faculty Focus

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. In liberal arts, this helps students delineate the scope of their studies and understand the limits of their knowledge.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

Faculty Focus

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. In liberal arts, this helps students delineate the scope of their studies and understand the limits of their knowledge.

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Remote Learning Strategies: Beyond the Pandemic

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To my knowledge, what the examples I’m seeing are hybrid or online, and it makes a ton of sense because it’s not like these students who are coming back in are typically going back into a regular mainstream school in the traditional district. Take the US history course you develop it. You’re with and. The capability.

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98+ Wondrous Would You Rather Questions for High School Students

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Go down in the history books for your Einstein IQ or for discovering the cure for cancer? Experience the cultural traditions of Buddhist Asia or Renaissance Europe? Define your culture with these questions Heritage is a big part of your students lives, but they dont always get a chance to celebrate it at school.

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Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books

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But the company canceled the feature after librarians pointed out how it could be abused by releasing their library checkout history and placing borrowing restrictions on accounts — in violation of both the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights and student privacy rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

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The blended learning model every district can try

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In more traditional K-12 public schools on the other hand, there’s a long history of the way teachers teach and the way students learn—stretching back to the 19 th century—that can make innovation difficult. Change that would allow for blended learning in public schools requires a major culture shift.