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New diagnostic tool measures reading skills, targets success

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Lexia Learning’s RAPID Assessment offers predictions for reading success; provides guidance for instruction. This new assessment is the result of Lexia’s ongoing partnership with researchers from the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR), a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University.

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3 ways to strategically incorporate creativity in schools

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Our philosophy allows creativity to be the basis for teaching, learning and problem-solving. Empower the Professional Learning Communities at each school through diverse, but targeted professional development. What they were missing, is a way to change how teacher themselves learn. Empower the PLC.

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How to Prepare Students for Jobs in the Self-Driving-Car-Industry

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That painfully obvious pun is actually one of the truest things you can say about this nascent, multidisciplinary enterprise, and it also encapsulates the challenge educators who want to prepare their students to work in this industry are facing today. Linear algebra is at the heart of how the car learns to drive itself,” says Jamthe.

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8 key components of a district safety plan

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An effective safety plan is shaped by a variety of knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the different aspects of a potential emergency. The best way to achieve this is to assemble a multidisciplinary team that meets on a monthly basis. Developing a district safety plan. Related Content: eSchool News School Safety Guide.

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Bridging the School-to-Business Gap: What Public Schools Can Learn From Industry

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Learning was sorted into disconnected subjects and compartmentalized by grades and age groups, with students sent along the proverbial conveyor belt of learning. Project management and rapid prototyping dominates business and many of our most-sought after jobs require collaboration and multidisciplinary, higher-order thinking.

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. They choose to be part of an intentional community that values the arts.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Many of my students who are already successfully applying their extensive knowledge and skills on class assignments and extracurricular activities are told that because they cannot demonstrate mastery of academic content through a specific set of conditions, they have failed.