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Are there any ?deeper learning? virtual schools?

Dangerously Irrelevant

But I think all of the virtual schools that I’ve encountered still focus primarily on low-level learning, digitized and chunked into a digital adaptive learning system. I don’t think I’ve ever seen ‘deeper learning’ or inquiry- and project-based learning as a core tenet of a virtual school.

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Making Time for Social Studies and Science Without Sacrificing Literacy

TCI

Project-Based Learning: Design cross-disciplinary projects that integrate multiple subjects into real-world applications. Regular Content Blocks: Schedule dedicated time for social studies and science each day or week. Alternating Units: Rotate between social studies and science to allow for deeper exploration.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless.

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What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?

Cult of Pedagogy

When Fine and Mehta set off to find examples of deeper learning, they assumed they would find it in places that had been ostensibly set up for that purpose, innovative schools built on a foundation of project-based learning, exclusive schools that were known for strong academic programs, and charters that had reported remarkable academic gains.

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School data is messy, but it doesn’t have to be

The Hechinger Report

Some teachers spend their weekends downloading PDFs of data from the educational programs their students use, manually transferring the data to Excel, conducting their own data analyses and then transferring insights back to their gradebooks. Berube said teachers have 45 minutes for these team meetings.

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

” Sending emails, weekly newsletters, or using the school phone to communicate are great communication alternatives if they cannot download one of these apps. It’s crucial to be open and honest with parents because they want to know how their child is performing in all aspects at school.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

ED Surge

Harnessing its learnings from KA Lite, the organization has evolved and expanded its impact by developing an ecosystem of open products and tools called Kolibri. More recently, we worked to understand how to leverage Kolibri to support project-based learning to improve foundational skills through a new project in Uganda.

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