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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

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As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise. They needed modeling, practice, and feedback.

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The Greatest Enemy of Creativity in Schools Isn’t Testing. It’s Time.

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A former art teacher, White is now an education consultant who criss-crosses the continent giving workshops, coaching teachers in her local Saskatchewan district and writing books. Well, we want to see kids asking lots and lots of questions. They will deepen their understanding and their questions might shift a bit.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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He recently spoke with us about testing bias, holding psychometricians accountable for the exams they create and whether the future holds any innovation for a field still dominated by math, language and multiple choice questions. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? EdSurge: What might make a test unfair?

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

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The only way to achieve another revolution in innovation is through complete transformation of our system As we write this, humanity is in the midst of multiple emergencies. While content standards are generally written across grades K-12, career education is typically considered only a high school endeavor.

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Faculty Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose 

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The purpose of this article is to provide insight from one university department in the southeast region, where we took time to encourage all faculty by entertaining questions in a non-threatening setting and offered guidance for the academic year. Dialogue : Both partners think their way together through discussion(s).

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Stanford Experiments with Virtual Reality, Social-Emotional Learning and Oculus Rift

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Understood.org provides the example practicing starting conversations with friends by roleplaying with parents: “Your child could compliment you, comment on the activity you’re involved in or ask a question about a common interest.” Callaham works with coaches to integrate the subject with physical education. Fast Company.

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How to Assess Learning in a Pandemic

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In the latest episode of EdSurge Live, we interviewed two professors who have long questioned traditional methods of grading about how to approach exams, essays and other assessments next semester: Susan D. So the approach that has emerged from that is something that I and others call “ungrading.” I don't get rid of learning.

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