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How students are managing back-to-school-stress

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percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 These platforms help with tasks such as breaking down complex math problems, summarizing difficult readings, generating essay ideas, and even providing personalized study plans. The most common stressors include homework (55.1 percent), studying for tests (48.8 Alarmingly, 72.6

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Micro-Writing is Having a Macro Impact on Identity Development

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One student, Johnny, is a talented artist but reads and writes well below grade level. His catchphrase is “Oh, writing isn’t my thing.” Building a classroom community in which all students feel valued and respected, and creating a learning space where everyone feels safe openly sharing their stories will take a lot of work.

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Accessibility Tools Can Be Transformative for Some Students. But at What Cost?

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But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. One day, I asked my students to write an exit ticket responding to a section of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and John submitted a full paragraph.

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Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

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Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara. It gave examples like the American Dream.

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What it Takes to Lead a School Where Students Love Themselves and Succeed Academically

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Student success is more often defined by whether a learner demonstrates achievement on what my grandmother called the “3 R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” — the core academic skills needed to illustrate mastery on standardized assessments. This is a dilemma. That’s likely because self-love is difficult to assess and measure.

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Teaching ‘Digital Native’ College Students Who Understand TikTok — But Not Microsoft Excel

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In a 2021 survey from the College Innovation Network, 20 percent of students at four-year colleges said they struggled learning new edtech tools. And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations.

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Inspiring… or not

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Writing for and advocating to authentic audiences around societal issues that we’re passionate about is inspiring. Writing 5-paragraph essays about books that we don’t care about is not. Internships and community partnerships and impactful service learning opportunities are inspiring. And so on… Inspiring… or not.