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Four Classroom-Ready Tips to Boost Reading Engagement and Drive Learning

Edsurge

Rather, it follows from nurturing a love of reading and closing the reading engagement gap—the discrepancy between how students engage with modern digital content and how they engage with traditional texts in school. Studies show that for students to remain engaged, they need texts that reflect their personal experiences.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

Edsurge

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. It’s not because these students and teachers have a peculiar penchant for fetid footsies. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

Joffe’s database answered a pandemic-era demand: About a quarter of families and teachers want more online instructions and resources to help them use online learning tools, according to a recent NewSchools Venture Fund-Gallup poll. Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too.

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PROOF POINTS: The life of an online tutor can resemble that of an assembly line worker

The Hechinger Report

Then, in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic erupted, Soka sent students home. An elementary school teacher, she was suddenly teaching five-year-olds online. He said he passed a test for job applicants, clicked his way through a short e-learning training module and was directly tutoring students within a month.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Remi Del Mar, Senior Product Manager for K-12 Projectors, Epson America I believe the mental well-being of students and educators will continue to be a top focus in 2024. We need self-care not just for students, but for teachers, too. The teacher shortage and initiative fatigue isn’t slowing down in the new year.

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3 Tips for Easily Implementing Social-Emotional Learning – by John Gamba

ViewSonic Education

Experience tells us there are three key features that, taken together, contribute to successful SEL and whole-child outcomes in elementary and middle school. As you think about where and how to invest your SEL dollars this school year, every solution you consider should meet, at minimum, these three criteria. #1

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Remi Del Mar, Senior Product Manager for K-12 Projectors, Epson America I believe the mental well-being of students and educators will continue to be a top focus in 2024. We need self-care not just for students, but for teachers, too. The teacher shortage and initiative fatigue isn’t slowing down in the new year.

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