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How to Bring Back the Arts and Boost Academic Achievement Through STEAM Curriculum

Waterford

8] And as standardized tests are used to evaluate both student and teacher performance, more time that was once spent on the arts is diverted to subjects that students are tested on. Over four million elementary school children receive no visual arts lessons in the classroom.[6] 5 Creative Art Activities for Elementary Students.

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It’s the invisible thread that weaves together student engagement, academic success, and the overall harmony of the classroom environment. Salient Classroom Management Skills: Finding the Most Effective Skills to Increase Student Engagement and Decrease Disruptions. American Secondary Education, 41(3), 21–33.

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Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success

eSchool News

While funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is available to districts for tutoring purposes, it is challenging and unsustainable for districts to reroute how they have historically used these funds. Fryer Jr., “The

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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

eSchool News

Achieve3000 and Virginia Beach City Public Schools have partnered to create Smarty Summer: Diving into Early Literacy, a new kindergarten reading readiness initiative exclusively for Virginia Beach students. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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Initial Findings After Implementing Digital Student Portfolios in Elementary Classrooms

Reading By Example

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. That post included our school’s limited progress in embedding technology into instruction that made an impact on student learning. In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. 2015-2016: 19% growth from fall to spring.

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Initial Findings After Implementing Digital Student Portfolios in Elementary Classrooms

Reading By Example

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. That post included our school’s limited progress in embedding technology into instruction that made an impact on student learning. In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. 2015-2016: 19% growth from fall to spring.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. The student engagement was so strong. The student engagement was so strong. “Remember,” Ross said to her class at one point, “all these numbers represent people.”.

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