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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This approach often fails to recognize and accommodate the diverse ways students understand and express their knowledge. This could be a specific skill, concept, or knowledge area.

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. The “connect, extend, challenge” routine fosters deep reflection and comprehension.

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4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

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Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Classrooms resemble manufacturing labs and makerspaces and students spend some of their week on-site at local internships.

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5 models that prioritize learner-centered education

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Iowa BIG : A community conversation about the knowledge and skills young people need to become engaged and successful members of the community as adults was linked with an initiative to send 60 community leaders back to school alongside learners over a four-month period. Many electives take advantage of the Village’s flexible format.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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Department of Education and will last five years. The collaboration, researchers from Michigan State and Alabama A&M say, is rooted in an equitable sharing of knowledge and best practices between the institutions. Chemistry and physics teachers within these schools will deliver the curriculum.

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Sneak a peek at 8 eSN K-12 Hero Awards contenders

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and found the trainers to be very knowledgeable and supportive,” she said. Students who used Exact Path showed a statistically significant impact on math achievement across all grade levels studied. LeCleir-Salas also gave high marks to S.P.I.R.E.’s s flexible professional learning program. “We reading intervention program.

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Systemic Change Means Rethinking College and Career Prep. We’ve Done It Before.

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Our education system should be our best effort to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools that they need to be prosperous, productive, and employed citizens. Unfortunately, due to our looming crises, the conditions in which all our systems, including education, exist have changed. CTE Gets a Bad Rap All U.S.