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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

Teachers will want to use pre-assessments, diagnostics, and/or assess prior knowledge to identify where each student is in relation to the content at the heart of the playlist. In addition to using data to design the playlist, it is essential to build mechanisms into the playlist to collect formative assessment data.

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What You Can Do to Bring Emotional Intelligence Lessons into the Classroom

Waterford

13] If you can teach your students how to recognize and regulate their emotions, they’ll be better prepared to focus and reach their potential both inside and outside the classroom. On a whole-class level, teaching your students to develop emotional intelligence can significantly improve your classroom environment.[3]

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

You may already be familiar with parent involvement and engagement, or listening to and working with parents in the classroom. It means embracing the belief that all voices and perspectives are welcome in your classroom,[1] and intentionally providing space for those voices to be heard.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Newly published, peer-reviewed research out of Michigan State University and the University of California, Irvine suggests that one-to-one laptop programs improve student academic achievement in K-12 classrooms. The primary author of the study ( Binbin Zheng, Ph.D. What did the meta-analysis reveal?

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95 Percent Group Unveils 95 Phonics Core Program for Grades 4 and 5

eSchool News

The new program extends the evidence-based classroom success of 95 Percent Group’s K-3 program, a Tier 1 solution for whole class and small group instruction, supporting explicit, structured literacy instruction. Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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How Can a Student Be ‘Proficient’ in One State But Not Another? Here Are the Graphs

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NCES has been administering the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam since 1969. Graph comparing 2005 state proficiency standard levels with 2015, Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics Graph comparing 2005 state proficiency standard levels with 2015, Source: U.S.

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Khan Academy’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California

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Most people associate Khan Academy with online videos, and that’s largely what it has been since 2005 when founder and CEO Sal Khan began recording instructional clips from his closet to help his cousin better understand math. Teachers will be able to use the Khan Academy classroom tool without Google, too.)