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Future of Learning
Teaching Through Change, Stories of Resilience: Austin ISD
Teachers across the nation are navigating a new normal and first-grade teacher Ms. Stacey Shapiro, of Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Austin, Texas, is no exception. AISD is a member of The Learning Accelerator’s Strategy Lab cohort, a network of seven districts that are planning for resilient and equitable futures, both in return-to-school […]
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Personalized Learning
How to Build Meaningful Learning Experiences While Tutoring Online: Tips from Online ESL Teachers
[…] needs to be built with careful strategies based on research-backed methods. Tutoring works best when research-backed frameworks and methods are placed into the hands of quality human teachers when well-designed technology meets the best of human teaching and is aligned with the efforts of local schools and districts. For classroom teachers that need to […]
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Leadership
The Connection Between Learning Gaps and Teacher Burnout
Teacher burnout is real. Understanding the connection between learning gaps will help educators to teach and learn more effectively.
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New Pathways
States Partner on Micro-Credentials to Personalize Teacher Learning
Ten years ago most teachers suffered through whole group sit-and-get professional development–low engagement, no choice, no personalization. A pair of startups, one venture backed and one nonprofit, leveraged the digital platform revolution and began offering an array of teacher learning experiences culminating in demonstrations of new capabilities that earned teachers micro-credentials. Schools and systems […]
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Project-Based Learning
2020 New Year’s Resolutions: Changes in Practice to Benefit the Whole Child
[…] engagement. Additionally, any requirement that relies on home support, given the vast disparities across communities, inevitably results in inequities. Try this. Instead of assigning traditional homework or worksheets, teachers might encourage students to dig further into their learning by providing guiding questions to promote conversation with their families. They might suggest, rather than require, experience-based […]
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EdTech
How Data-Informed Instructional Coaching Programs Support Teachers and Improve Academic Outcomes
By: Jason DeRoner Issues with teacher retention and shortages are having serious negative consequences for students and educators. When teachers are dissatisfied with their work environments and aren’t receiving adequate support, it can impact their students’ academic progress and overall school experience. This academic year, teachers are facing a variety of challenges as they work to help […]
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New Pathways
How Teacher Beliefs Transform Student Outcomes: The Impact of Collective Educator Agency
By: Dr. Dennis Johnston Belief before behavior. This phrase has the power to transform classrooms, schools — and lives. The importance of teachers’ beliefs has been demonstrated over many years of research. This work builds on the scholarship of psychologist Albert Bandura, who demonstrated that teams that believed in their potential to create change […]
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Future of Learning
The Growing Need for Online Teachers
Spring in California delivers vibrant colors after a long, gray winter. Teachers welcome them all—except pink. First- and second-year teachers, affectionately known as “probes” (for probationary), receive notice of termination from their employers on or before March 15. Appropriately, it is called Pink Slip Day. This bureaucratic strategy serves as advanced preparation for budget […]
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Early Learning
10 Steps to Develop Great Learners: I Am a Parent Not a Teacher
[…] The following is an excerpt from 10 Steps to Develop Great Learners. Schooling was made compulsory in the 1800s based on a simple premise – experts ( teachers) are more able to educate children in school-related topics that most parents can. And this has proved to be the case for 150 or so years […]
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Competency-Based Education
The Key to Enabling Data Driven Instruction in the Classroom: Getting Teachers the Right Data
[…] As a result, these experts had much more time to analyze the data and use their skills to create better forecasts. A Parallel Need in Education: Enabling Teachers to Analyze Data to Improve Student Learning I was reminded of this experience a few years ago when a school invited me to attend one of […]
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