ED Surge

JULY 26, 2023

I struggle with perfectionism every day, and sometimes, it prevents me from authentically showing up for family, students and myself. I am a social sciences and Spanish teacher and a mother of three children, and with that comes the social and self-imposed pressure to show that all the pieces of my life fit together like a shiny mosaic. I would like to believe this is a personal battle, but this drive toward perfectionism also impacts our students.

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Digital Promise

JULY 26, 2023

The post Why Co-Designing Learning and Employment Record Technologies is Best Practice appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Achieve the Core

JULY 26, 2023

These are the words my young granddaughter uses when she sees anything we have that is interesting that she wants to explore how to use. Recently, a colleague and I explored what happens when we allow students to request whatever tool they might want to help solve a problem. Activating Student Agency In a sixth-grade classroom, the teacher and I selected to use Math Milestones task 6:12 in order to activate and deepen student learning around graphing points on a coordinate plane, understanding s

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Strange Maps

JULY 26, 2023

A McDonald’s restaurant in the Kingdom Mall in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. America’s biggest burger chain is usually the first one to enter foreign markets. ( Credit : Lynsey Addario / Getty Images Reportage) When non-Americans think of American fast food, the first thing they picture are the Golden Arches of McDonald’s. That’s because McDonald’s usually is the first U.S. burger chain to open franchises in other countries.

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