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Showing posts with label ASCD SmartBrief. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Study: Summer program boosts ELLs' skills

Listening, speaking and writing skills improved among English-language learners in California who participated in a summer-sc -More


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Reflecting on "Sesame Street" as program hits milestone

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Tips for supporting administrator PD

Facilitating professional-development opportunities for administrators can be a challenge, writes Kimberly Tew, assistant sup -More


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How to engage in more meaningful conversations with students

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Instagram adds US to test of dropping "likes" count

Instagram "likes" will become private for a portion of the platform's US users this week as part of a test it has been runnin -More


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Are active shooter drills harmful to students?

Active shooter drills at schools could harm the psychological development of young students, asserts Melissa Reeves, a profes -More


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Pa. school district may expand grab-and-go meals

Pennsylvania's Keystone Central School District is considering dedicating areas at Central Mountain High School and Central M -More


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Feds cancel $11M in loan debt for some students

The US Education Department has cancelled about $11 million in federal student loans for more than 1,500 students who attende -More


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Calif. delays college math admissions proposal

The California State University system has revised a proposal to require incoming college students to have four years of math -More


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Colleges find ways to support first-gen students

Colleges and universities are creating programs to help first-generation students connect with each other and faculty members -More


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What Schools Can Do for Immigrant Students

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Your Students, My Students, Our Students: Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms

"Your Students, My Students, Our Students" explores the hard truths of current special education practice with this ASCD memb -More


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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

Gustave Flaubert, writer

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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Athletics program boosts students' social skills

Teaching social skills and providing new experiences are the goals of the Special Olympics basketball program at Oxnard High  -More


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Why one teacher allows test retakes

David Cutler, a high-school history, government and journalism teacher, says he allows students to retake most assessments.  -More


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Telehealth programs help keep students in class

Some school districts are expanding students' access to health care and are curbing absenteeism through telehealth programs t -More


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Research: Traditional schools outperform virtual programs

Enrollment in virtual schools continues to grow, but research by the nonprofit National Education Policy Center finds such pr -More


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Students navigate real-world math in game mode

A math simulation game called "The Game of Life" showed students at one Missouri school the finer points of budgeting, taxes  -More


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DeVos urged to erase debt of vets who are disabled

US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is being asked by 51 attorneys general from states and territories to automatically forgiv -More


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Transgender student bathroom-access case won't go before high court

The US Supreme Court will not consider a challenge to a policy under which transgender students in Pennsylvania's Boyertown A -More


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Adam O’Neal Resigns as Washington Post Opinion Editor

Adam O’Neal inherited a mandate from the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to shift toward “personal liberties and free markets.” from NYT > T...