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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. Pupils with special learning needs due to physical and/or mental impairments who require special assistance to meet with academic success. Students with Disabilities.

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Ensuring Access to Robust Broadband for ALL Students

Doug Levin

In June of 2013, the President announced his intention to “ connect 99 percent of America’s students to the internet through high-speed broadband and high-speed wireless within 5 years.” We should demand more of our political leaders and from our education advocacy organizations.

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Learning to Breathe: Educators Use Yoga and Meditation to Reduce Burnout

Edsurge

Together, they learned yoga and meditation techniques, along with philosophy, anatomy and social-emotional learning strategies. Photo Credit: Tina Nazerian At the same time, Nankin’s current adult students learned she was also a yoga teacher. But when she learned about Breathe for Change, she decided to apply.

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?Forbes “30 Under 30” Education Leaders to Learn From in 2017

Edsurge

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. Alec Whitters (29), CEO of Higher Learning Technologies.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Topics should include relationship building, advocacy, and culturally relevant strategies. Redding, S., Langdon, J.,

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

What does Virtual Reality have to offer to the learning process? If you want to learn more about Virtual Reality check out. And our teachers, in terms of being able to exercise that creative juice, that it lets them really explore learning in a way that gets at passions of teachers. I like technology. It doesn’t scare me.

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