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Stop Taking Grading Home

Catlin Tucker

In January I wrote a blog post titled “ New Year’s Resolution: I’m Moving ALL Assessment into the Classroom.” In fact, they just completed a detailed six paragraph research paper on an environmental problem of their choice. ” I’m here to update everyone. It’s been amazing!

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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

For students to hone these critical research skills, they need to practice conducting online research. Teachers using StudySync can take the Building Background activities in the First Read lessons and create collaborative research assignments for students learning remotely. If so, could that create bias?

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Part IV: Thinking About Thinking This is part four of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “I used to think…Now, I think…” routine.

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Boosting Digital Literacies for a Purpose

Digital Promise

Digital Promise’s Adult Learning initiative recently launched Community Impact Stories, a new series of blog posts to highlight adult learner stories across the nation. They also boost information literacies by teaching learners how to access and utilize online resources.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

That could be giving social-studies students a tutorial on research skills; showing a French class how to make stop-action animation, short videos, or websites for presentations on Francophone countries; or helping a math teacher free up class time by creating sharable videos of introductory explanations and sample problems for students.

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At These Colleges, Students Begin Serious Research Their First Year

Digital Promise

In the second course, students develop laboratory research skills, begin their team project and use the results to write a full research proposal. In the third course, during sophomore year, students execute their proposed research, produce a report and a research poster.

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Effective Foundational Literacy Instruction Grounded in the Latest Research

Heinemann Blog

All research citations can be accessed in the linked full report. Editor's note: This post is an excerpt from the report, " Saxon Phonics and Spelling: Science of Reading Instruction. It's been lightly adapted for format.