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10 Strategies for Schools to Improve Parent Engagement
By: Jennifer Larson. The key to productive and positive parent engagement is a consistent and simplified flow of communication between school, home and all other stakeholders. Schools can take advantage of best practices to give parents more visibility into their child’s day-to-day.
5 Obstacles (and Solutions) to Transforming School Systems for the 21st Century
Kentucky's Bullitt County Public Schools (BCPS) reflects on their multi-year journey into rethinking education.
Talking Math: 100 Questions That Help Promote Mathematical Discourse
By: Gladis Kersaint. Do the questions you ask in math class open a door for students to really share their knowledge in a way that highlights their true understanding and uncovers their misunderstandings? Here are 100 questions and an infographic to help you promote mathematical thinking and encourage classroom discourse.
Early Learning Strategies for Developing Computational Thinking Skills
We live in a world with Smartphones and Smarthomes, and understanding how devices work allows us to approach technology as a partner to help us solve problems. Here's how we can start giving kids these skills sooner rather than later.