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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 22 (4). Let us slow down and help students connect themselves to their work, their teachers, and their fellow learners. Dr. Jennifer P. Fast Facts.

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Supporting Students and Faculty in the Online Classroom: Slow Down and Simplify at the End

Faculty Focus

Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 22 (4). Let us slow down and help students connect themselves to their work, their teachers, and their fellow learners. Dr. Jennifer P. Fast Facts.

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78 Scholarly & Creative 7th Grade Writing Prompts

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Informational Writing Choice Board (Distance Learning) By Swain in the Middle Grades: 5th-8th Standards: CCSS W5.2, Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English? Do students lose a lot of what they’ve learned over summer break? How is symbolism used in the story?

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Engaging distance learning starts (and continues) with collaboration

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When Highline Public Schools starts its academic year on September 9, the district will implement an engaging distance learning model that Superintendent Dr. Susan Enfield and her team developed over the summer. Lessons learned from family and student feedback. Lessons learned from family and student feedback.

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If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home.

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Austin Independent School District Selects IXL to Support Classroom Instruction and Distance Learning

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Lexia Learning’s PowerUp Literacy Program is 2.5x More Effective in Helping English Learners Close Critical Reading Gaps

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