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How we built a whole-child, wraparound approach to special education

eSchool News

This includes their history, culture, dreams, and any experiences that have shaped who they are today, such as trauma, poverty, or medical needs. Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

Edsurge

Together, we navigated the cultural shock of teaching in Jacksonville, a city with a small Latino population compared to the communities we had grown up in. By this point, I had two years of teaching experience and developed a better understanding of what it took to be an effective educator. Another key relationship was with Ms.

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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

EdTech Magazine

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35. Artificial Intelligence Gives Teachers More Time and Specific Data. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

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The chime she rang to remind students to take a calm breath before focusing their attention signaled that this breathing practice had become embedded into classroom culture. Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. She wasn’t the only one.

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A Welcoming Tone: Tips to Build Rapport in Digital Spaces

Faculty Focus

We know that our students are culturally, linguistically, and racially diverse. Realize that one type of language or dialect is not inherently superior to another. Each language/dialect has value (Palmer & Devereaux, 2019). Value the linguistic capital of students’ home languages (Yosso, 2005). They are neurodiverse.

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Pros And Cons of AI in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. There are many subtle complexities to teaching that AI currently cannot match. Factors like body language, tone, empathy, classroom dynamics and real-world context are important.

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What Learning Python Taught Me About Computer Science Education for Young Children

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For example, teachers should encourage students to talk to one another about different debugging strategies, reframe frustrating moments as a time for critical thinking and build classroom culture by sharing and celebrating student work. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

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