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Reversing the absent trend: A school’s community-powered comeback

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Our elementary school is no exception–we were recently dealing with a situation where 20 of our students were chronically absent. She introduced regular in-person celebrations and rewards for students with good attendance, including: Monthly donuts with me for one student from each grade. Host your own attendance awards.

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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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These students can make meaningful gains when provided with targeted reading intervention strategies tailored to their needs. Still, educators can offer early literacy support and help for struggling readers using evidence-based reading instruction. What is a delayed reader?

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28+ Exciting Experiments for Kids in Elementary School

Teachers Pay Teachers

Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking. Simple 2nd and 3rd Grade Science Experiments Grab your goggles; it’s time to explore.

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Up the Class Tempo with 17 Music Activities for Elementary Students

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Music Circle Time Special Education, Autism, Preschool & Speech Therapy Activity By Supporting Special Learners Grades: PreK-K Use classic tunes like the ABC Song and The Ants Go Marching to help students build communication and social skills through rhythm and repetition. But it’s not impossible. But that is just the beginning.

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Re-Visiting Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society

Teacher Toms Blog

The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. I remember him as the type of child that institutional schooling loves most.

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We are All Self-Educated

Teacher Toms Blog

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all. And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall. I often think that I didn't learn to read as much as discovered that I could.

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This is how we used technology to improve our school’s reading scores

eSchool News

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). Authentic Reading Experiences Wanted. But achieving that goal isn’t easy.

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