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The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade. Here’s What’s Next.

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But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. According to the authors of a new report, it’s not schools that need a “rethink” as much as school staffing. At Franchise, growth analysts earned an extra $2,400.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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I didn't do computer science until I was 21, and I had classmates at UCLA that did computer science when they were in the seventh grade,” Noriega says, “so wherever I can provide that space and provide them with that early introduction to computer science and technology, then I will.”

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Frameworks provide mental models, but “don’t usually help educators know what to do differently,” argues technology leadership expert Scott McLeod in his latest book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning. This is a language that teachers at all grade levels, in all subjects, are able to embrace.”

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