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Early Numeracy as a Cornerstone of Long-Term Academic Success

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A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. The Equity Factor in Early Numeracy Equity remains a top priority for many K-12 administrators.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

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And he says K-12 teachers frequently use materials from a range of sources including curriculum and textbooks from their schools and districts, resources they’ve gotten from colleagues or found on websites, and materials they’ve purchased from marketplaces such as Teachers Pay Teachers.

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OPINION: Many teachers see social-emotional learning as the ‘missing link’ in student success

The Hechinger Report

As instructors finalize lesson plans and schools across the country head back into session, there’s been a recent and significant surge of interest in social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula at both the federal and state levels. Additionally, 97 percent believed that students from all backgrounds could benefit from SEL.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

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During my K-12 schooling experience, the story I learned about what it meant to be a Black person taught me two things: that I was less than human, a victim of America’s anti-Black violence, and in order to be seen as human, I had to be successful.

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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Fred Rogers (Mr.

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OPINION: To fight online trolls, we must teach teenagers how to think like them

The Hechinger Report

High school students are also teenagers, though, and while they may be technologically savvy, they are often psychologically unsophisticated and eager to be part of a cause or group — making them easy marks for the purveyors of misinformation.

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Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that burned, it’s everyone’s’

The Hechinger Report

A year and a half after the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, students are coping with the psychological consequences of living through a megadisaster that sent them running for their lives. It was a 180 turn.”. I just think we’re in for a big storm for a while.” But I can’t.”

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