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Create a Culture, Not a Classroom: Why Seating Charts Matter for Student Success

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This question comes up each summer as teachers strive to create the best learning environment possible. From my experience in the classroom, I’ve found that seating chart choices can be critical to how students engage with one another and the teacher.

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Principals: The lessons we learned in 2016

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Through the Leader in Me and an RTI2-B partnership with Vanderbilt University, the school is transforming its culture and addressing unrealistically high behavioral issues that inhibit learning. Cox Middle School focused on literacy, math, and lowering discipline referrals, which adds a social-emotional learning aspect to our plan.

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What is the Problem of Classroom Management?

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Key points: It’s tough to balance student engagement and diverse learning needs Discover the advantages and disadvantages of classroom management Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends The landscape of K-12 classroom management is fraught with various challenges.

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Tract+Genius Hour–a new twist on a popular project

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The purpose of its videos, hands-on projects, and lessons is to spark student creativity–empower them to explore their passion. Lessons are delivered by peers–high school and college students with a love of the subject. Students engage through tasks, projects, and peer interaction.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States. This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? Rebecca Koenig & Stephen Noonoo (March 16, 2020) How do you talk to kids about distance learning? Stay safe, sane and sanitary, everyone.

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

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And the reason we said ‘same as,’ is that there are so many other benefits from the arts [that are] well documented, like student engagement, creative thinking and problem solving. You can learn the way your teacher teaches you. So we were just testing memory [after] 10 weeks out, which is similar to the summer slide.

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