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Gale’s Political Extremism and Radicalism Series Wins 2022 SIIA CODiE Award

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Our mission is to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights and this recognition is further confirmation of the innovation and value Gale Primary Sources brings to enriching the research experience for students and faculty.”. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

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How to incorporate real-world connections into any subject area

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It provides learners with the opportunity to synthesize knowledge by exploring topics and ideas through multiple lenses. For instance, principles from science can be linked to literature they are studying in English class. According to Moser et. These activities allow them to learn from each other and view different perspectives.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. Having a snapshot of real-time peer review data gave me more insight into how students were using teacher-developed criteria to evaluate one another.

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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I spoke to Aylynn as part of a visit to Pendergast with my colleagues from Imagine Learning to hear about educators’ and students’ experiences using the Imagine Learning EL (English Learner) Education curriculum. Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

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How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

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I think there's a feeling amongst a lot of people that there's something broken about the way we produce knowledge in academia,” he says. And it seems to me that the answer to this attack on expert knowledge and on scholarly knowledge is not to retreat. Let's open up our knowledge production processes.

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This Toolkit Helps Take the Stress Out of State Testing

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We believe that when test day rolls around, students’ scores should reflect their content knowledge—not their ability to decode the test itself. We believe that when test day rolls around, students’ scores should reflect their content knowledge—not their ability to decode the test itself. Assessment For Learning.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

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Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments.

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