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

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Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. 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.

Teachers 160
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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Each has its own champions, teaching practices, and even hashtags; all have the potential to disrupt what we think of as traditional, teacher-centered education by giving students more voice in how they learn. See the resource list below for more suggested readings and teaching tools.) Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model.

Skills 167
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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. In Gonzalez’s view, just getting a piece of technology into a child’s hand won’t help them improve where they’re lagging academically or even be effective at teaching them anything.

Knowledge 146