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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This approach often fails to recognize and accommodate the diverse ways students understand and express their knowledge. This could be a specific skill, concept, or knowledge area.

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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

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As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise. But productive struggle does not work for my daughter.

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5 models that prioritize learner-centered education

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Iowa BIG : A community conversation about the knowledge and skills young people need to become engaged and successful members of the community as adults was linked with an initiative to send 60 community leaders back to school alongside learners over a four-month period. Many electives take advantage of the Village’s flexible format.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

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and globe accelerate toward the use of renewable energy to fuel power grids, there is an acute pressure to build an educated workforce and a knowledgeable public who will understand and support these changes. There exist major gaps in teacher knowledge and the availability of curricular tools to support this type of learning.

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When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers?

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After she took a position teaching 6th grade English, she says she faced a stark attitude change toward her edtech opinions. But that doesn’t scratch the surface of the insight they would get, she says, if they had a more-thoughtful solution—like asking for opinions from a committee of teachers representing each grade level.

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Sneak a peek at 8 eSN K-12 Hero Awards contenders

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and found the trainers to be very knowledgeable and supportive,” she said. Students who used Exact Path showed a statistically significant impact on math achievement across all grade levels studied. In grades 3-5, students completing at least 16 skills had the biggest improvement overall, growing 8.7 NWEA MAP points on average.

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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

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They’re designed for an assembly line economy versus the creative, collaborative and knowledge rich world that students will inherit. Teachers use that to their advantage by beginning the next class with some retrieval practice and interleaving , learning science strategies that can boost knowledge retention.

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