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How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

By the middle of elementary school, it is assumed that most students have basic decoding skills they know how to turn letters into sounds and sounds into words, but reading is a lot more than saying the words on the page. Last year we explored the debate over early reading instruction.)

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Navigating Your Journey to Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Determine how feedback will be given once school reopens. As this is new to everyone, piling on too much work will be counterproductive. You really can’t go wrong here.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

. “At Fulton County Schools, we know that there is a huge opportunity to support our schools as they move towards increased personalized learning in the classroom – and one way to do that is to ensure that they are utilizing the most appropriate digital resources in their classrooms to support student learning.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

A key theme of Future Ready Librarians, which last year published a framework to revamp the bookish role, is that districts pouring money into hardware and software need people to shepherd these tools into classrooms and to curate these burgeoning digital resources. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Credit: Kershaw County School District. Volunteers from Sherrelwood Elementary School in Westminster, Colo.,

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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