A Lesson Plan for Teachers

AUGUST 2, 2023

As teachers, we often find ourselves faced with classrooms full of students with a range of abilities, interests, and learning styles. While whole-class instruction can be effective in certain situations, small group lessons can provide more targeted and personalized learning experiences for our students. Let’s explore some best practices for facilitating small group lessons in […] The post Small Group Lessons: 8 Best Practices for the Classroom Teacher appeared first on A Lesson Pla

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is the third in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the first part here and the second part here. Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain about Latino culture. Something perhaps not exclusive or applicable to the way all 62.5 million of us in the United States were raised, but important for context just the same.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Yvette Hernandez started applying for college scholarships when she was still a junior in high school — 50 in all, by the time she was done — because she knew her family could not afford to pay for her tuition, room, board and other expenses without them. This story also appeared in Marketplace Most scholarship applications demanded an essay, a personal statement, a resumé, references, an interview, letters of recommendation and good grades, which Hernandez kept up even while also juggling colle

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

I’ve loved literature since I was a little girl. I was always eager for a new book, a new word, a new understanding, a new connection, a new… knowing. I’ve read about what happens to a dream deferred. I’ve read about southern trees that bore strange fruit. I’ve read about why the caged bird sings. Literature has taken me toward the warmth of other suns and dropped me off at the intersection of awareness and identity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sometime this fall, in a classroom in New York City, second graders will use pipe cleaners and Post-it notes to build a model of a tree that could cool a city street. They’ll shine a lamp on their mini trees to see what shade patterns they cast. Meanwhile, in Seattle, kindergartners might take a “wondering walk” outside and come up with questions about the worms that show up on the sidewalk after it rains.

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Teaching K-12 Civics Professional Development 74

Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2023

The post How Community Input Enables Users to Help Build Learning and Employment Records appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Achieve the Core

AUGUST 2, 2023

Within the teaching profession, there is a lot demanded on a daily basis to ensure best instructional practices are being followed and student learning is being maximized. In an effort to meet these demands, teachers focus their time on the grade level and students at hand. Furthermore, some teachers admit to even just grazing over strategies with students when they were too challenging or when teachers did not see the benefit.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Here are the 17 words from Florida’s new social studies guidelines that lit a fire under much of America, on every side of the debate: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” In typical fashion, many on the conservative side initially lauded this news, although some, including presidential candidate and Senator Tim Scott, eventually began to criticize the standards after national backlash ensued.

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