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5 Steps Toward Building Successful Digital Communities Infused With Rigor and Relevance

A Principal's Reflections

BYOD enhances learning, increases productivity, allows students to grow their research skills, and gives teachers the chance to teach appropriate digital responsibility. Employing the energy surrounding personal devices allows them to use the tools that help them do what they do better.

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End of the Year Project: What Are YOU Curious About?

Catlin Tucker

This project is designed to drive higher-order thinking, develop research skills, and encourage reflection. Once they have decided on the question they would like to investigate, they self-pace through the parts of the project and use the slide deck below to document their learning. Below is the project template.

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

ED Surge

Pushing students to get involved in research early can also amplify inequities among those who don’t have access to expensive research programs or opportunities at elite institutions. That’s not to say that teaching research skills in high school is bad, though.

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Stop Taking Grading Home

Catlin Tucker

This paper took them about 3 weeks to write from the time they started their research to when they finished their final draft and works cited page. We spent a significant amount of class time working on these papers.

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3 Ways to Build Student Agency into Your Lessons

Catlin Tucker

For example, if we are researching Elizabethan England to complement our reading of Romeo and Juliet , I invite students to decide what aspect of that period most interests them–the plague, entertainment, fashion, gender roles, musical instruments, the monarchy–and research that topic.

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How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

ED Surge

Students addressed their own climate anxiety by applying their research skills in designing climate solutions and writing defending arguments to local politicians.

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3 Strategies to Engage Students Remotely with StudySync Using Google Classroom

Catlin Tucker

For students to hone these critical research skills, they need to practice conducting online research. Teachers using StudySync can take the Building Background activities in the First Read lessons and create collaborative research assignments for students learning remotely. If so, could that create bias?