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5 online resources to beat the summer slide

eSchool News

Prodigy : For students who struggle to stay motivated during math practice, Prodigy turns learning into a role-playing adventure game. Aligned with state standards and suitable for grades 1-8, Prodigy adapts to each learner’s skill level, offering targeted practice without the pressure of grades or tests.

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AI can personalize learning–it can’t make students care

eSchool News

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? What if the key to unlocking motivation isn’t something intrinsic to students, but something found in their relationships with peers, teachers, mentors, and communities? But that vision overlooks something deeper.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

Edsurge

Solving this motivation problem is tricky. When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview.

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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

broadened my worldview and helped me internalize the importance of cultural relevance and adaptability in educational reform—what works in one context must be thoughtfully localized in another. At the same time, I’ve prioritized integrating SEL as a core part of classroom culture—beyond isolated lessons.

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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

broadened my worldview and helped me internalize the importance of cultural relevance and adaptability in educational reform—what works in one context must be thoughtfully localized in another. At the same time, I’ve prioritized integrating SEL as a core part of classroom culture—beyond isolated lessons.

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8th Grade ELA Teacher Essentials: 11 Top Teaching Tools

Teachers Pay Teachers

For students who are testing below grade level, incorporate the CCSS for language arts that are closer to their actual abilities. Add more works that represent multiple voices and cultures, and let students choose from a list of titles to ensure they’ll be engaged in the reading. And in order to list them, you need to plan them!

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Pandemic graduates: They had no prom, no pomp and circumstance, and started college on Zoom

Cal Matters

Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said. In his junior year Fajardo ran for student government president and won, which gave him a bigger platform to “build back campus culture.” Tradition is the backbone of campus culture.”

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