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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.” Tannenbaum teaches icons first. But this hard work enhances everyone. As Forbes says, “When we do this, we all rise.”

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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. To implement this approach, we ensure that our staff has the risk-taking mindset, creative leadership and flexibility to exemplify the art-integration teaching method. To supplement arts-integration instruction, teaching artists from John F.

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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. This score, when compared to a student’s prior Ability Scores, indicates relative growth in the skill.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on April 22, 2019© Magna Publications. For more articles like this, check out The Teaching Professor subscription! Do you teach one of those courses that promotes lots of student anxiety? Sources of students’ anxiety in a multidisciplinary social statistics course.

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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. And our robotics engineering program is inherently multidisciplinary.

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How One Professor Uses Podcasts to Teach Empathy and Social Justice

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She also relied heavily on YouTube videos to bring her podcasting knowledge up to date. Faculty Club is a multidisciplinary community of educators sharing ideas to advance innovation and celebrate excellence in higher education. The Adobe website has great tutorial videos that I used to teach myself the basics of audio editing.”

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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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