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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. In case you must ‘sell’ this idea to your administration, here are three great reasons why students should use Minecraft in school: Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Game playing develops reading skills.

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Feeling the midyear slump? Recharge your meetings with MicroPD

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If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. Read a team-building quote and have teachers reflect on it for 30 seconds to 1 minute. This can feel overwhelming and make the most positive teacher feel less enthusiastic. That’s why we conduct monthly PD meetings. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights?

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What if you’re a new first grade teacher, and you realize the classroom methods you’re using to teach your students to read just aren’t working. The 80-minute documentary is called “ The Right to Read ,” and it is making the festival circuit of screenings, including a showing at the recent SXSW EDU Festival.

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Why Self-Directed Learning is Important for Struggling Students

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The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair.

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15 Skills To Learn this Summer and Use Next Year

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There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. Read this left to right, starting at the file’s root location and then drilling down into the file folders. I’ll give you ideas. Don’t be afraid to fail in front of students. In fact, you can’t.

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A Supreme Court Justice’s Legacy in Edtech

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“I made a commitment to myself, my family, and my country that I would use whatever years I had left to advance civic learning and engagement,” she writes in the letter, which was published and read widely in the days following her announcement on Oct. A recent addition is a media-literacy game called “news feed defenders.”

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

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On a whim, I typed “TFA criticisms” into the search bar and read article after article of valid, powerful critiques of the organization that I — bright-eyed and full of naive optimism — had just committed to for the next two years. Is This the Best We Can Do? Who would fill in the gaps if organizations like TFA ceased to exist?

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