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JANUARY 3, 2017

They are constantly expanding their knowledge, refining their skills, and looking for creative ways to help kids learn. As these four principals look back at 2016, they recall the most important ed tech lesson they learned this year—and look forward to inspiring their staff and students anew in 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Avoidance has become a crisis in recent years, one that schools aren’t prepared to handle, according to mental health experts. It can knock students off the traditional developmental path and leave them without crucial social and emotional skills, says Anne Marie Albano, a clinical psychologist with experience in school avoidance.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. I spent the first four years of my career building the activities and classroom management skills I would need to pull it off. To start, I set up five centers: lab, science skills, reading, technology and a makerspace.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.” Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success.

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APRIL 23, 2019

We spent the remainder of the meeting discussing strategies that were effective for Sadie and coming up with an action plan to put into place immediately, which included music integration, a social skills support group and tutoring. However, the clinicians are also always available to the student if they are struggling or in crisis.

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MARCH 27, 2017

There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? You have to do it differently.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

That’s the premise of the Flex Program being piloted by Susannah Johnson in Honolulu, Hawaii, which seeks to leverage the intrinsic motivation of students to build the necessary skills for success in school and beyond. There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process.

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