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ISTE+ASCD Reveals 2025 Honorees for Innovation and Excellence in Education

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Sierra Sands Unified School District, (Ridgecrest, CA): Lisa Decker, Director of Elementary Education, Dulce Baca, Principal, Pierce Elementary School, and Julie Frisbee, English Language Arts Instructional Coach. The Sierra Sands Unified School District educates over 5,200 students in 11 schools.

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

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Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

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ISTE+ASCD Reveals 2025 Honorees for Innovation and Excellence in Education

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Sierra Sands Unified School District, (Ridgecrest, CA): Lisa Decker, Director of Elementary Education, Dulce Baca, Principal, Pierce Elementary School, and Julie Frisbee, English Language Arts Instructional Coach. The Sierra Sands Unified School District educates over 5,200 students in 11 schools.

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Supporting delayed readers: Strategies for success

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Common issues include deficits in phonological awareness (Kilpatrick, 2015), limited exposure to language-rich environments, and instructional mismatches. Elementary School Journal, 118(4), 579599. Francis (Eds.), Handbook of Reading Interventions (2nd ed.). Guilford Press. Connor, C. Piasta, S. Fishman, B., Foorman, B.

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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Evaluate Vendors With 17 percent of its 12,700 students classified as English language learners as well as a significant refugee population, Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma used the CITES framework to develop a robust vendor-evaluation process. “We It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.” Our tight bond helps every student.”

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

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Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., Hind Haddad, an Arabic language teacher in Columbus, Ohio, experienced many microaggressions as a Muslim educator. Another way educators have sought to foster and connect identity to curricular engagement is through social-emotional learning practices and strategies.

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