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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

When students arrive at a teacher check-in, they join a queue to meet with the teacher. During the teacher check-ins, teachers meet one-on-one with students to review their work, provide focused feedback, discuss their progress, and make adjustments to their individual playlists to ensure they continue making progress.

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

Waterford

Additionally, emotional intelligence involves using your emotions to plan and meet your goals.[5] 2005, Child Development, 76(5), pp. Cognition & Emotion, May 2005, 19(3), 313-332. First, a brief definition of emotional intelligence: it is the ability to have awareness of and manage your feelings. and Pianta, R. Wilson, H.

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

Doug Levin

Dr. Zheng and colleagues did not collect original data; rather, they used a statistical technique (meta-analysis) to combine the findings of prior studies meeting specific quality criteria in an effort to identify larger trends in the emerging body of empirical evidence on laptop programs’ impact on learning.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

Edsurge

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Now in its 25th Demo Day, the Silicon Valley accelerator has created a machine for turning fledgling ideas into businesses that get investors salivating—and writing checks. Its graduates have gone on to raise more than $13 billion in total.

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

Schedule a meeting with each family as early as possible in the school year to discuss their hopes for their child’s education and how they would like to be involved in school. Teachers College Record, October 2005, 107(10), pp. 5] Parents, teachers, and administrators can work together toward co-constructing solutions. Cooper, C.W.,

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

eSchool News

The 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress – the Nation’s Report Card – revealed the average fourth-grade reading score was lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2005, dropping back to 1992 levels. Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. I, like many teachers, share a deep belief that we should decide how to best meet the needs of students before turning to technology. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks.