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Arkansas Department of Education Names Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading™ Foundations an Approved English Language Arts Foundational Skills Program for Grades K–2

eSchool News

The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading Foundations to its list of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for foundational skills in English language arts. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.—

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Kindergarten math is often too basic. Here’s why that’s a problem

The Hechinger Report

Last spring, 47 percent of the district’s fourth graders were proficient or advanced in math on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test. It’s what Sumner County Superintendent Scott Langford calls “high-quality” instructional material, with lessons that move students beyond simply counting objects like penguins.

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Turn the Page: Looking Beyond the Textbook for Culturally-Responsive Curriculum

Edsurge

This responsibility goes far beyond ensuring factual accuracy; it extends to creating culturally-responsive curriculum that not only integrates the experiences of diverse cultures and historically underrepresented groups, but also actively engages cultural learning styles and scaffolds students toward freedom of thought and independence.

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What You Need to Know About Teaching Cybersecurity

edWeb.net

In a recent edWebinar , Casey O’Brien, Executive Director, National CyberWatch Center, and Jim Kowatch, CEO, Infosec Learning, underscored that to fill the demand for cybersecurity experts, secondary and higher education should focus their attention on developing cybersecurity courses that are rooted in IT operations and applications.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A little help from our academic friends: Five fine portals for instructional fodder

NeverEndingSearch

How about a few fresh strategies for energizing your information literacy instruction and preparing your secondary learners for their academic experience? A recent instructional example is Sara Davidson Squibb’s Where Should I Search? Thing 4: Assessment Overview. Thing 20: Rubric-based Assessment.