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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

Students create budgets, shopping plans, and comparison shopping while learning about the effective use of credit. If you’re ready to help elementary-aged children understand financial literacy, Vault is the perfect course for you. Grade level: elementary grades. Grade Level: Elementary School. Grade Level: 9-12.

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Governor Christie’s Guide to Destroying a Great Education System #NJED

A Principal's Reflections

Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. It breaks my heart to see what is happening in a state that I hold dear to my heart.

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Math Webtools to Support Any Curriculum

Ask a Tech Teacher

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. Free on the web; fee for the app.

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Best Practices for Teaching Math to Unique Learners: Visual Representations

N2Y

Early elementary school teachers commonly use lines, circles, or other basic shapes to represent quantities to be combined when teaching addition. Middle elementary school teachers typically introduce the concept of multiplication with arrays and equal groups. To many, the use of visuals is an elementary school practice.

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?How Game-Based Learning Encourages Growth Mindset

Edsurge

Here’s a sampling of Mangahigh's games to get you started: Game Description Grade Levels Deepest Ocean Comparison with inequalities Elementary to middle Pyramid Panic Lite Lengths, perimeters and areas and shapes Elementary to middle Jetstream Riders Times tables and numeracy skills Elementary to middle Flower Power Lite Ordering decimals, fractions (..)

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. Joseph Pirozzi at Franklin Elementary in Syracuse, N.Y.,

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Choosing The Right Adaptive Learning Tool

techlearning

Unique Features: Julia Cope, third-grade teacher at Bonita Elementary in Newman-Crows Landing USD, values the variety of reports for both teachers and parents. NWEA’S MAP GROWTH ( nwea.org ) Jenny Lynn Hatter, Chief Academic Officer of Harrison County Schools, reading to elementary students. I love Stride and so do my students.”