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Why Soft Skills Matter More Than Ever

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While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom. In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. It addresses the common student question “Where will I ever use this?”

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Why ‘Brain Rot’ Can Hurt Learning — and How One District Is Kicking It Out of School

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Analog Solutions for Digital Problems Shari Camhi, superintendent of Baldwin Union Free School District in New York, says that cell phones have never been seen as anything but a distraction in the district of about 4,500 students. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

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Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art.

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How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching

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Problem-solving and critical thinning: Encouraged problem-solving and critical thinking. Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school. “Our

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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

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School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Students are the problem.”

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information.

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