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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its about time that schools dragged math into the modern world, so that it imparts useful skills, Henderson says. That includes how job skills play into math paths for students. Around the country, students math performance is in a slump. Some think that making careers the focal point of math class can help.

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A Major Textbook Publisher Has Gone Private. What Does That Mean For Its Transition To Digital?

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The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. The textbook publisher had announced the sale back in February.

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Turn the Page: Looking Beyond the Textbook for Culturally-Responsive Curriculum

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Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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How CTE supports college and career readiness

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For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. A strong curriculum integrates industry certifications, technical skills development, and career pathways that align with workforce demands.

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Check for Understanding: What Are You Learning About Your Students During the Lesson?

Catlin Tucker

In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. In addition to determining where each student is starting in terms of their content knowledge or skills, teachers should collect data during the lesson to gauge what students know.

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10 ways administrators can collaborate with librarians–even remotely

eSchool News

Even now, as students are learning at home and with fall openings uncertain, school librarians play an important role in helping students develop important critical thinking and digital citizenship skillsskills they’ll need more than ever in an increasingly online world with unvetted sources of information shared far and wide.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

eSchool News

The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. Offering students different options through which to demonstrate their understanding and their writing skills is another way to discourage them from automatically using AI. “We

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