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25 Reasons to Give Thanks for Teachers
As we prepare to gather round Thanksgiving tables and give thanks, it is a great opportunity to give thanks for teachers, for the many things they do every day to enrich the lives of students.
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3 Lenses for Developing Deeper Driving Questions
Three questions give us a set of lenses through which to consider the content and how our students might apply thinking through creative, collaborative tinkering-based projects that result in thoughtful products of their learning.
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Teachers: No More Excuses, Get Blogging
By Douglas Frankish: Blogging creates great opportunity for teachers and students. Here's the top 3 teacher excuses for not blogging with 3 reasons they should be.
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New Competency-Based Professional Learning Model for Educators
A new approach to blended, competency-based professional learning aims to give teachers "access to the right materials, to support the right competency development, at the right time, through a shared system for competency-based educator development" across seven skill areas.
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Talking Math: 6 Strategies for Getting Students to Engage in Mathematical Discourse
By: Gladis Kersaint. To engage students in productive mathematical conversations, teachers can orchestrate discourse and structure learning environments to deepen engagement and support learning.
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Teachers and Technology in Education
By: Curt Allen. We want to support, not replace teachers. We want to enhance their professional advancement as they develop the young minds in their care. We want to help them prepare better, counsel with peers better and take objective measures of their students’ unique abilities and special needs. We want to be responsive to their preferences, whether they teach from a traditional, personalized, blended or project-based style.
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Why Do You Get Up in the Morning?
By: Jeff Sandefer. Accessing deep pools of inner motivation is an important and never ending life skill. The answer of “Why should I get up in the morning?” is a difficult one at any stage of life. Here is how Acton Academy is encouraging middle school students to figure it out now.
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Talking Math: How to Engage Students in Mathematical Discourse
By: Gladis Kersaint. Students benefit greatly from learning to use the tools of mathematical discourse— including words, symbols, diagrams, physical models, and technology—to present and defend their ideas.
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Connecting to Powerful Innovators: iNACOL Symposium 2015
Register today for the education industry’s leading K-12 online, blended and competency-based event -- The iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium, November 8-11 in Orlando, Florida.
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4 Projects for Building Global Connections
We can begin a practice of global education first by leaning in, then making friends, sharing passions, and collaborating to take action about what matters.