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How to Choose High-Quality Social Studies Instructional Materials for Your District

TCI

Digital Components: Many providers offer online platforms or digital resources to supplement print materials. Teacher Support Materials: Lesson plans, pacing guides, and professional development resources are often included. All teachers receive HQIM professional development.

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Quantifying Innovative Practices

A Principal's Reflections

The critical element in this equation was skillfully purposefully employing digital resources while ensuring consistency and continuity in all our old and new practices. We merged quantitative and qualitative measures to validate each innovative idea's reasons, processes, and outcomes in detail.

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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators. However, one of our greatest potential solutions is often missed in the national conversation: providing professional development for principals.

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How Schools Can Implement Mindful Media

TeachThought

Provide professional development for teachers Offer professional development opportunities for teachers to learn about mindfulness techniques and strategies for integrating mindful media practices into their teaching. Encourage student participation and provide a safe space for open dialogue and sharing experiences.

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New National Survey Analyzes Impact of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning

Digital Promise

Edtech and Professional Development. Provide high-quality teacher professional development in selecting and using edtech that is inclusive of all learners and encourage teacher input and ownership of the edtech they use in their classrooms.

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Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops

The Hechinger Report

He organized professional development for teachers and provided coaches to help teachers learn about and roll out technology in classrooms. Hickman was slowly able to get the community on board as he spoke to families and teachers about the importance of preparing students for a global society where technology use is inevitable.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Teaming up with Skyview’s instructional technology facilitator and early-adopting teachers, Chun frequently demonstrates new tech tools at the school’s teacher-led professional development meetings. Often, she backs up these introductions by co-teaching a class or two. “It

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