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Could coding count as a foreign language?

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Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements. State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same.

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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers. It’s so important that Esther spoke up about this.

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The secret to good teaching? Teamwork

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It was with great trepidation — knowing that I could not live up to this model but wanting to do my best — that I took my job teaching social studies at a small public high school in the Bronx. Watching “To Sir, With Love” was even a course requirement in my teacher residency program. Who is needed on this team?

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These 9 free apps help every student hit Common Core Standards

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The Common Core app organizes the Common Core standards by subject area (math traditional, math integrated, language arts, history/Social Studies, and science and technology) and grade level. Fortunately, there are a number of free apps that can help. Next page: Fun, graphics-heavy apps students will love.

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How are students doing since COVID? Good luck finding out from your state’s school report card

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For the center’s report, researchers set out to find information in each state about student achievement in English language arts, math, science, and social studies, as well as student growth–or the progress students made year over year–in English and math.

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

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We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels.

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PebbleGo Health, Offers Special Educator Preview in June

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PebbleGo Health launches in both English and Spanish and joins previously released modules: Animals, Biographies, Science, Social Studies, and Dinosaurs. AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), ensuring it’s accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities.