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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project.

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How to Achieve Powerful Digital Learning

Digital Promise

Districts, schools, educators, and families scrambled to get plans in place for distance learning. We must use this crisis to create a better and more equitable system for all learners, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, geography, or learner variability.

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The school district where kids are sent to psychiatric emergency rooms more than three times a week — some as young as 5

The Hechinger Report

Her son, who also has ADHD, was several years behind in reading by the time he got to middle school. Black students in Wicomico County schools are sent to psychiatric emergency rooms at a higher rate than their peers. Wicomico school officials said they do not discriminate against any of their students.

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Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59

Dangerously Irrelevant

Day 2: Connecting and Collaborating – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – How connections foster innovation (Chris Anderson, Steven Johnson, and The Power of Pull ) – Individual connection maps: How are we personally and professionally connected to ideas, individuals, groups, and organizations?

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Using Effective Teaching Strategies in Social Studies Instruction

TCI

For example, collaborative activities in geography or history lessons can transform abstract concepts into tangible experiences, helping students retain information and stay engaged. When Thomas was a middle school teacher, he taught about the American Revolution in a hands-on, minds-on way.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

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Why Maine’s new high school graduation rules could hurt more than help

The Hechinger Report

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. I was in middle school when they started it,” said junior Tyler McVey, 17, “and it was junk.”.