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Strategies for supporting ELL students in math

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million English language learners (ELLs) in elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Supporting ELLs requires a commitment to a shift in practices that involves the entire school and also branches out to the community. For many of the 4.5

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CoderZ Named 2020 Tech Edvocate Award Winner for Best Coding App or Tool

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It’s an honor to have our coding and robotics curriculum and its game-based design and instructional model chosen as a solution that is positively impacting teaching and learning—and this has never been more important than during this unprecedented time of COVID-19.”.

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In the marketplace: Minecraft Education Edition, apps for ELLs, digital citizenship, and more

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Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners.

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The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

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She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code.

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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide

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The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and wind generators. The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. Every school has a unique ecosystem to capitalize on.”

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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

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The most popular edtech job category doesn’t relate to design or administration—it’s all about curriculum writing. While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews. There’s a caveat, however.

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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The network began the Greenfield Schools design project to research what the future of school could be, with the goal of opening two new schools in 2015—an elementary school and a middle school. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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