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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

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Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them

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And in the past, administrators at some colleges have replaced their services with all-encompassing tutoring centers or third party organizations, Wynn Perdue adds. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says. Johnson and her team train their tutors to teach students about how AI can be useful in the writing process.

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New Directory of Innovative School Models Aims to Encourage Experimentation

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Examples include whole child learning models, blended learning models and high-dose tutoring ones. Ultimately, the nonprofit hopes that the exchange will speed up the adoption and development of attempts to transform education by making it cheaper and easier to explore them. But it has taken time for districts to hear them out.

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A New Feature of Teacher Prep Programs? Compensating Future Educators for Their Time

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Today, and for the last year or so, aspiring educators at American University are required to spend a minimum of 40 hours tutoring students in Washington, D.C., Earlier in their education programs, aspiring educators might engage with students in an after-school program or club. They’re hooked.

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To Serve Bilingual Students, This Future Teacher Will Draw on Her Own Experience

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With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. There was a shift in culture and in school. I [want to help students] overcome language barriers and cultural barriers. In college, during my experience [tutoring] at the elementary school, I had a student who inspired me.

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Why Investing in SEL Now May Be the Key to an Equitable Future

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The American Rescue Plan requires local education agencies (LEAs) to spend at least 20 percent of federal funding on evidence-based initiatives to mitigate the issue. Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution.

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3D Virtual Learning a New Reality

A Principal's Reflections

We will be able to embed learning into collaborative processes to improve performance and extend the learning culture while using technology as the learning environment, as well as prepare students for a 21st century workforce in which many of them will have to communicate and collaborate virtually.

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