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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So yeah, I'm an educator and businesswoman.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

ED Surge

Students started to have rich discussions about what the purpose of school should be and tapped into their creativity to find unique ways to represent their ideas through writing, images, audio or video. The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

This year, an anti-remediation sentiment has spread quickly among educators, who’ve adopted a mantra: “Accelerate, don’t remediate.” This comparison of the two approaches using education technology is promising, but more research is needed. Educators have a lot of work ahead of them.

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Competitive Coders Are the Future of Esports and the Rising Stars of Computer Science

ED Surge

And the best part is educators don’t need experience coding either. The game does the heavy lifting, while the included lesson plans and student-facing lesson slides make in-classroom implementation turnkey and enjoyable.

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They Left Teaching in Search of a Better Life. Did They Find It?

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Once she was settled into her new position as a grants coordinator, she saw how similar grant proposals and project plans are to writing and evaluating a lesson plan for a class. She says the job requires organization and people skills, both of which she also needed to be a successful elementary school teacher. “I

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