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KidWind Offers Virtual Workshops on Renewable Energy Education

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The workshops are topic-specific and designed to help educators teach about renewable energy during distance and hybrid learning. Workshops and the materials used are geared toward middle school and high school teachers, and no prior knowledge of wind or solar energy is required. Participants can register here.

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This Middle School Engaged Struggling Students and Gave Them a Voice in a Virtual World

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Assistant Principal Ronda Smith remembers her heart racing when she learned that John F. Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. Pear Deck allowed schools to use their platform for free because they understood that education must continue. It was genius. I was floored—in tears.

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Rethinking student assessment: Tools and strategies for meaningful evaluation

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It allows students to compile evidence of learning through text, images, videos, and links, fostering creativity and critical thinking. It also facilitates peer and teacher feedback, making assessment a more collaborative process. The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process.

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BetterLesson and Adobe release 300+ strategies for creativity, student engagement

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To support educators with student-centered learning, BetterLesson and Adobe have teamed up to create 325 free instructional strategies that build creativity, collaboration, and communication skills using products in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.

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As COVID relief spending deadlines loom, one district moves ahead with an uncommon tech plan

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As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. We’re doing hybrid learning,” the staffer responded. What’s this all about?”

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We Run a Hybrid School. Here’s How We’re Adapting Our Schedule for the Times.

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Pre-COVID-19, our “default setting” schedule had students join us on campus two days a week; middle school students attending Mondays and Wednesdays and high schoolers on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Why Seamless Communication — in the Classroom and Beyond — Matters

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But in the tech-dependent era of distance and hybrid learning, clear and consistent communication—about grades, assessments, learning targets and a host of other school-related matters—may now be more important than ever. Justin Hall, who teaches math at Rancho Cucamonga Middle School , understands this need well.