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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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A Simple Lesson Structure for Fostering Student Engagement #engaginglitminds

Reading By Example

Beginning dialogic engagement in the classroom simply requires getting children invested in an issue they can relate to and on which they have different perspectives and helping them engage each other’s perspectives. Engaging Literate Minds, pg. Last week our school surveyed almost 100 families about remote instruction.

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4 Ways to Get a K–12 Student Help Desk Going

EdTech Magazine

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. The BHS Help Desk curriculum strives to give students real-world learning opportunities,” Scheffer writes. by Jennifer Brown.

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Getting up to Speed: Teacher Prep and Technology Integration

Ask a Tech Teacher

There is an increased movement towards personalizing the educational experience, practiced with student agency and choice on assessments. For a teacher, this translates into knowing what students use and understanding these platforms themselves. Here is an excerpt from the publication K-12 Dive recent piece on pandemic learning.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. They compared them with 8,000 students at 21 other schools that had to wait and didn’t get the extra arts for at least a couple years.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. Online Assessment. Look at this course.

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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data.