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

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Districts must get buy-in from a multidisciplinary team, including a family representative, on a shared, inclusive technology vision, and develop a strategic implementation plan before selecting tools.” After you’ve completed the assessments, discuss your strengths and challenges, prioritize key areas and determine goals.

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New diagnostic tool measures reading skills, targets success

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Designed for administration in the fall, winter, and spring, RAPID uses a computer-adaptive process to identify and monitor reading and language skills so that teachers can quickly acquire actionable data for instruction and measure the long-term growth of each student’s skills.

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3 ways to strategically incorporate creativity in schools

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School leaders are tasked with this expectation in order to prepare our students for the demands of 21 st century workforce skills. To assist in this effort, we looked at many professional learning programs, and all of the models have teacher engagement in a hands-on multidisciplinary approach. But how can this be accomplished?

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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. People working in this industry have a wide range of skills and experience.”

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. I’ve pointed out the social skills that band, orchestra and choir ensembles build. All of these points are true, but they fall short of explaining why the arts truly belong in every student’s K-12 curriculum.

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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.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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The answer, as he explains in “ The Checklist Manifesto ,” is a multidisciplinary profession known as structural engineering. Where and how do young people learn these skills? But how can we integrate more of these skills into core academic classes such as English, algebra, physics and social studies?