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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, it is now time to focus on the present with an eye to the future. They shared how teachers got better using technology, reached out more for feedback, collaborated more, and improved classroom management. As the new year begins, schools, for the most part, are still where they were in 2020.

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Learning to teach from naughty avatars

The Hechinger Report

University of Virginia researchers find that classroom simulations, combined with coaching, help prospective teachers improve their classroom management skills. Since publication, Cohen has learned that her research subjects successfully applied the skills developed in the simulated environment to real classrooms. “We

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PROOF POINTS: Putting praise to the test

The Hechinger Report

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Herman’s earlier 2018 study of a praise-heavy classroom management program for elementary school students called The Incredible Years also found positive results.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

ED Surge

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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Teacher Engagement Part II: Emotional Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Two main factors can have a significant impact on a teacher’s emotional engagement at work: The quality of their relationships with students Student behaviors and classroom management. Student Behaviors and Classroom Management.

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Supporting Teachers in a Hybrid Learning Environment

Digital Promise

And then there is the 2020–2021 school year, where nothing is normal, and we have had five “first days of school.” We also focused on improving classroom management in a concurrent teaching environment. So, we walked through classrooms to see what strategies teachers were using, what worked, and what didn’t.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 04

Dangerously Irrelevant

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. It also requires a mindset shift away from the teacher as the classroom manager and deliverer of content. You design the instructional experience.