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FAQ: The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

The station rotation model is a popular K-12 blended learning model that rotates students through a series of stations or learning activities. In the early stages of designing my station rotation lessons, I was frustrated by the lesson planning process because I found every station built on the station before.

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OPINION: How online and traditional teachers can work together to bring more students into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Our brick-and-mortar educators are paired with specially trained online educators to learn how to effectively deliver online instruction, ways to tailor lesson plans and methods for employing an interactive curriculum that meets our state’s standards. The main ingredient is teacher-to-teacher support.

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

The best laid plans can fail when you overlook the simplest of details. Teachers have been surfing the Web for lesson plans and ideas for their classroom for years. If you think about the origins of a traditional textbook, the publisher did the curation work for you. Librarians are trained master curators.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

ED Surge

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Johnson: We have an obligation to think about transforming traditional assignments into something more interactive and problem-solving-based.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

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. In the context of Black history, that means showing that Black people are loved.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. The exercise is from the book “Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9-12,” published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.).

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