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The Growing Potential of Micro-Credentials

A Principal's Reflections

Educators could then use those badges to build and communicate their own reputations to their colleagues and to senior staff, capturing a complete picture of their own professional development for others to see. Educators can earn the badge by then assimilating what they’ve learned into their own instruction in some way.

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Teaching Broke My Heart. That's Why I Resigned.

ED Surge

In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. In 2013, North Carolina got rid of master’s pay increases. It’s just a reality of the job.

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

In addition, when children know about their own family history, they are more resilient and emotionally stable, according to research as reported by Bruce Feiler in 2013 in the New York Times. Family-sourced primary sources can help students see themselves in the past and realize just how important and relevant history is to each of us.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Between 1989 and 2013, the percentage of students with disabilities who were in a general education class for 80 percent or more of the school day increased from about 32 percent to nearly 62 percent. Vayda-Manzo said the school makes sure co-teachers have the same planning periods so they have time to plan lessons together each day.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Related: When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk. Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. School data shows college placement rates have remained roughly steady between 2013 and 2018.

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

The Hechinger Report

After three years in an expeditionary learning school, students outpaced traditional school peers by 7 months in reading achievement and 10 months in math, according to a 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research that EL commissioned. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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What is Universal Pre-K?

Studies Weekly

2013, May 2). Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts What is Universal Pre-K? First Five Years Fund.

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