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Digital learning is different

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The ability to identify misleading or false information is a skill that will benefit them in their personal and academic lives. By teaching students how to refine their searches and discussing the impact of these search skills, students will be more discerning when it comes to reviewing search results.

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25 Team-Building Activities for Kids to Connect Classmates

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Working together as a team is a skill that takes practice. Team-building activities for kids help students build stronger connections with classmates and develop essential teamwork skills. They extend far beyond typical indoor recess games and are designed to foster real communication and decision-making skills.

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Can the Most Populous State Pull Off Universal Pre-K?

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When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. The transitional kindergarten program is typically offered within existing elementary schools, and all districts will be required to offer it.

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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?

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Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS. had stronger literacy skills.

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3 reasons elementary schools should adopt an LMS—and where to begin

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Through my work with educators across the country, I know the number of elementary school districts and administrators turning to LMS adoption is increasing for all grades—preparing students at a young age to use the technology they will need to master for high school, college, and beyond.

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How academic teaming put this school on track for success

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What does it take to turn around a chronically under-performing school? If you ask educators at Moseley Elementary School, it takes determined school leaders and teachers with the ability to give students a purpose each day–and a strategy called academic teaming. Moseley Elementary School has a history of struggle.

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School leaders of color face high levels of burnout–here’s what they need to thrive

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At some point, though, our experiences at the same Florida elementary school diverged. While my colleague was asked to lead a grade-level team, I was tapped to head up the school’s Black History Month programming. After school, she oversaw academic enrichment while I supervised detention.

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