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Excellent Free STEM Strategies from TGR Foundation and Discovery

The CoolCatTeacher

Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. The new ( Re)Defining STEM learning module from TGR Foundation and Discovery Education is the first of several courses to support educators to integrate STEM in new and powerful ways. All opinions are my own.

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New NWEA Study Points to Instructional Strategies Driving Academic Growth

eSchool News

Chase Nordengren, principal research lead for Effective Instructional Strategies at NWEA, the study zoomed into two schools that have historically shown high growth for diverse populations of students, including through the pandemic. Provide supplemental learning time for targeted retrieval practice 2.

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6 tips to help educators support young readers

eSchool News

The idea that children learn to read by memorizing whole words is a misconception. We now know students learn to read by mapping individual sounds to letters that represent them. Learning to read irregular words Even irregular words have parts that can be mapped to sounds. This practice skips important steps.

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SETDA Launches Cybersecurity Resource Focused on Small, Rural, and Under-resourced Districts

eSchool News

The Cybersecurity & Privacy Collaborative hopes that this document will help prevent breaches of student and educator data while offering strategies to support and improve cybersecurity readiness for small and rural schools.” “The state and territorial educational technology and digital learning leaders.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

Edsurge

Excited for the opportunity to focus on their learning, teachers find their seats and start to chit chat about the lesson plans they’ve left for their students. This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K–6 Classroom

Tom Murray

On Tuesday, September 12th, from 2:00-2:30 pm EST, join author and long time educator, Kristin Ziemke and me as we discuss: Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom ! Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K–6 Classroom. Join us next week! Future Ready Schools ® Invites You to a Participate in a Webinar.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Our research-backed micro-credentials are digital certifications that verify an individual’s competence in a specific skill or set of skills, regardless of where and how they learned them. Digital Promise & Verizon Innovative Learning Schools. Carey Institute for Global Good. Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC).

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