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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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Most states don’t actually know if teachers are qualified to teach reading

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Across these 15 weak licensure tests: Ten do not adequately address all five components of the science of reading and five combine reading with other subjects, such as social studies or science. Just six exams are rated “strong” and four are rated “acceptable.” Note, one test fits into both categories listed above.)

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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. This app also includes the Common Core appendices from the Common Core website.

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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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Computer science classes have an equity issue–some NYC educators are trying to change that

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She sees the possibilities of cross-discipline collaborations: For instance, a social studies lesson on Harriet Tubman could discuss what she could have done for the underground railroad if she had information technology, and what kind of problems that tech could have brought as well.

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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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Could coding count as a foreign language?

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“What I’m fearful of is now we’re at a place where certain students in certain ZIP codes may not have access to those kinds of classes because they may have antiquated equipment,” said Bullard, who also is also a high school social studies teacher in Miami-Dade. Republican state Rep.

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