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

ED Surge

I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. A really good day is when I'm able to complete my lesson plan from beginning to end, when children are catching what I'm bringing in five seconds.

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5 Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. It was not learned.”

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

Learning and Teaching About Black Death When I was nine years old, I learned about the murder of Emmett Till after reading his story in one of my Aunt Helen’s “Jet” magazines. When I teach history, I teach like my life depends on it. Educational spaces must show Black people, like me, that we are loved.

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Experience and the educational ecosystem: why retention of experienced colleagues matters for beginning teachers

Becoming a History Teacher

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. 2024) Teacher workforce woes pose big questions for next education secretary , TES Magazine, [link] 10.1108/JPCC-12-2018-0032.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

Brown had first contacted Sabeti a couple years earlier, after reading her Time magazine profile to his science-loving daughter, then 6 years old. “We Pardis Sabeti, a Harvard computational geneticist whose lab, affiliated with the Broad Institute, partners with scientists worldwide on infectious disease research and response.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. To date, they have created more than 100 maker-focused lesson plans for students in Grades 1 to Grade 8 in both English and French Immersion programs. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. Teaching Perseverence.

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Engaging Students with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

They love playing the game after reading an article online or in the magazine. The other reason that I love Social Studies Weekly is the materials. The kids enjoyed it. I can pull up the online component and we can either work on this game as a whole class to earn coins or we can work with teams.