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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6

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3 ways to strategically incorporate creativity in schools

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How do you weave creativity into the fabric of school curriculum? School leaders are tasked with this expectation in order to prepare our students for the demands of 21 st century workforce skills. Empower the Professional Learning Communities at each school through diverse, but targeted professional development.

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Essential steps to develop a district safety plan

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Previously, she had taught students an emergency escape route out of the school. 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.

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New diagnostic tool measures reading skills, targets success

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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. All three scores are provided at the student level and then aggregated to the class, grade, school, and district levels.

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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. Take it in high school if you can,” he says. Change your oil.

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

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As many of us know, modern public schools have roots in the Industrial Age; they were designed to prepare students for the 19th century workforce. Project management and rapid prototyping dominates business and many of our most-sought after jobs require collaboration and multidisciplinary, higher-order thinking. So how to span the gap?

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8 key components of a district safety plan

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Previously, she had taught students an emergency escape route out of the school. 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.