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5 educators share insights into teaching and learning

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Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development.

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 Learning Without Tears Scores Big in 2023 EdTech Awards

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The company had a particularly strong showing in the 2023 EdTech Awards , where its Phonics, Reading, and MeÔ was a finalist in the Literacy/Reading Solution category and the company’s Get Set for SchoolÒ won its category and was named the “Best Early Childhood/Kindergarten-Readiness Solution.”Adding

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This district’s blended learning program is putting struggling readers back on track

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In Neshaminy School District, northeast of Philadelphia, nearly 20 percent of our struggling K–2 students spend 30 minutes a day, five days a week in small-group reading intervention. Our blended model starts with an engaging digital curriculum, one-to-one instruction, and small-group work.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. The book I read this year that blew me away was “ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ” by Gabrielle Zevin. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars. It comes out in all sorts of ways. It would also, of course, improve their lives.

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K-12 Class Sizes Have Ballooned With Online Learning. It’s Not a Good Thing.

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In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

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The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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A Team Effort: Educators Collaborate to Bring AI Into K-12 Classes

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We spoke with this dynamic group of educators about how the AI Explorations course helped reshape and expand their efforts to integrate AI tools and teaching into K-12 classrooms. We see each other on Zoom meetings or chat on our WebEx channel, but this was an opportunity to get a group working together that was really diverse.