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

ED Surge

I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. I wish every school was resourced with a full-time, certified school librarian.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. Credit: eLearn.fyi. When the coronavirus pandemic first struck and classes shifted online last spring, Sophia Joffe was in 11th grade.

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HQIM in Social Studies

4QM Teaching

Thats because rewriting all your lesson plans is a lot of work, and the Four Question Method takes practice to learn; its a discipline that you dont master after a day at a conference. Its a full school year: ten units, 10 -15 lessons per unit. But most readers dont do that. Today were almost done with a 4QM U.S.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

The family, who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, has chosen a hybrid home school model – half a day of distance learning with the local school and half a day of activities and lessons arranged at home. “I She represents a growing number of Muslim families who are forgoing the public school system.

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OPINION: We’ve got to train special education teachers to be leaders as well as educators

The Hechinger Report

Fellows are also prepared to develop, acquire, translate and use scientific evidence to design and implement high-quality lesson plans that will benefit students of all abilities. “We Fellows often go on to assume key leadership roles in public and private schools.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

“So the tax base went to the city school district, and it made obstacles for the county even greater as they had even less to work with.”. That same year, Starkville Academy, a private school called a segregation academy by some in the area, took in its first students, most of them white. Hope and faith. “We

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When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers?

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Suddenly, she says, no one seemed to care what she thought about the tech tools the school adopted. It was especially frustrating, considering she had spent five years helping teachers weave edtech into their lesson plans and had earned a doctorate in education technology before returning to teaching.

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