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EdTech
Data-driven SEL: How It Can Help Meet Your Students’ Needs
[…] For example, our assessment data showed us a large percentage of students were struggling with relationship skills. This prompted our school counselors and teachers to refocus their lessons around activities to support this skill. Using data to pinpoint students’ strengths and needs has been transformative. It has helped our staff provide targeted instruction and […]
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Future of Learning
On Spreading Learning Innovations: Pandemic Update
[…] programs, guidance strategies). Joining a network is advocacy. Networks form community–a commitment to learn and improve together. When communities of practice produce favorable working conditions and remarkable life outcomes across hundreds of schools in widely varying conditions–that’s more than a proof point, it’s a movement. Some advocacy lessons include: Good work is advocacy–at least when […]
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Future of Learning
Strengthening K-3 Distance Learning
[…] from a well-to-do family is going to suffer detriments, but for low-income kids, the effects are going to be enormous and carry forward through the child’s entire life.” I spoke with a handful of Kindergarten teachers in Indiana, Kentucky, and New Hampshire about their experiences with distance learning this past semester. Captured below, the […]
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Future of Learning
5 Ways PBL Set A Clearer Vision for My Career Aspirations
[…] wasn’t completed on time or executed correctly, we would circle back to elaborate clearly on our incompetencies through the reflection process. Failure is inevitable throughout an individual’s life if the purpose of education is to learn then experiencing a lack of success is essential towards improvement. In traditional schooling, students are taught strategies focused […]
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Getting Through
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
[…] for trauma, learning loss, and family stressors. As states postpone in-person start dates or roll out unexpected requirements, how can schools help students navigate multiple and complex life and learning transitions? As students and their caregivers face challenges related to health and safety, loss of income, and ongoing racial violence and oppression, how can […]
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Getting Through
5 Research-Based Recommendations for Remote Learning: Lessons from LUSD
[…] also leverage these findings to establish more holistic supports for students in the fall. For more, see: Defining and Measuring the ‘Personal’ in Personalized Learning Remote Learning: Lessons Learned and Reflections to Inform the Future EdTech Report: Key Findings in Response to Remote Learning Stay in-the-know with innovations in learning by signing up for the […]
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8 Ways to Bring Augmented and Virtual Reality into the Classroom
[…] try to navigate the different learning spaces and requirements for in-person, hybrid or fully online during the year and seek to find the right balance for our lessons and leverage the right tools and strategies to best meet our students’ needs. Another challenge is with student engagement, especially in the virtual environment. Engagement is […]
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Difference Making
Portrait of a School Wide Project Launch
[…] to see the why behind it.” This project is a great vehicle for learners to really experience service, empathy and connection to others, according to Horney. “Facilitating life lessons, compassion and empathy are important values to instill in the future generations and one of my favorite aspects of teaching,” said Horney. Latimer sees this specific […]
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Future of Learning
How Lessons of the Past Can Help Design a More Equitable Future for all Students
[…] of experience in the industry, probing the racialized history of the education system was difficult. These conversations are uncomfortable, the policies we discuss are real and have life-altering consequences for the trajectories of students. Because education outcomes and academic achievement are deeply tied to wealth, power and influence, the effects of these policies reverberate […]
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Reimagining the Textbook with Virtual Reality
[…] That frustration is what drove us to dream up the concept for ScintillaVR, a platform for teachers to create virtual reality experiences to bring textbook lessons to life. Unlike other VR companies in education that are trying to create all their own content, we harness a tool called Unreal Engine to give teachers the […]
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