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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

ED Surge

You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. Are they culturally relevant for our kids? It makes me empathize with other people.” As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years.

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‘Guided play’ benefits kids—but what does that look like for parents?

The Hechinger Report

The initial findings of this survey found huge support for play among parents, but researchers found some misconceptions around how to best use play to support learning. But research is finding when there’s a learning goal, that guided play yields the best results for that. It’s really important.

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The Power of Local and National Community Connections

Digital Promise

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region.

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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

ED Surge

That’s a task that Stanford University researchers have been doing through an effort to draft a white paper that gathers observations about teaching and learning during the pandemic and notes key lessons that could be built on going forward. We need some shared narrative.” Other universities are doing the same.

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Moving from Challenges to Solutions: The Future of Educator Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Digital Promise gathered developers, researchers, educators, and thought leaders from the educator professional development field on January 9-10 in Redwood City, California, for The Future of Educator Micro-credentials Summit. Investigate through research and supporting guiding questions to prepare solutions.

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Valuing Professional Learning through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

By articulating a specific research-backed skill and assessing evidence of that skill in practice, micro-credentials can transform a district’s culture of professional learning. Their guiding question was: “How can we structure the economics of micro-credentials to provide value beyond professional development to educators?”.

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Making Time for Mindfulness

Digital Promise

While small, the study of sixth-graders at a Boston charter school adds to a still-growing body of research about a role for mindfulness in the classroom. The Findings. They designed a study focusing on sixth-graders in another Boston-area school. Provide teachers with dedicated time to engage in mindfulness practice themselves.