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Improving reading skills and SEL through text-based discussions

eSchool News

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, director of customer advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Related content: 5 discussion tools to fuel student engagement.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Learn what it means, what benefits it brings, and what teachers need to create a personalized learning environment for students. Simply put, personalized learning means adapting the learning experience to each student’s individual needs, skills, and goals. What is personalized learning? Competency-based learning. Key takeaways.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

As teachers and students, parents and principals, settle into this strange new school year, they say they are just beginning to understand the effects of last year’s disruptions. Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school.

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‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished

The Hechinger Report

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. The idea is to foster empathy for all students among everyone from faculty members to cafeteria workers. We’re definitely seeing those kinds of models across the country.”

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

School is open year-round, allowing students to continue their studies throughout the summer. Keeping students engaged who by definition have had trouble sticking with school is a challenge. When they first arrive, 60 percent of Altus students are behind on credits. Tim Tuter, executive director of Altus Schools.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. But these concerns exist as well for traditional brick-and-mortar schools, some of which have failed generations of students.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. And, the goals for students engaged in this type of learning include self-esteem, empathy, motivation, and commitment.