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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

The Hechinger Report

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Tomorrow’s New Normal: What It Means for Professional Development

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Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. The positives were that we banded together as a system to try to fill in those gaps, whether it was training gaps, infrastructure, or device gaps.”. Approach to PD.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Does everyone feel valued? About the Hosts.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

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While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities.

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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

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It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

So our daily greeting provides a positive interaction before they get into their classroom.”. When kids perform poorly in the classroom, it’s the schools that are held accountable, but those who work with low-income students said that academic struggles are often the least of a child’s problems. “We

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace. It entails the teaching of academic, technical and social skills in actual work settings or simulated backdrops. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs.

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