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The Best, Free Financial Literacy Courses for Middle and High School

The CoolCatTeacher

Register now for their FREE virtual LearnOn conference on Monday, October 9, and learn the best practices in using their lessons. Additionally, his free financial literacy course aligns with Jump$tart Coalition Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education, National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, and State Academic Standards.

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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

Edsurge

The tangled web of grading, posting assignments, and communicating with students—plus maintaining an engaging and supportive instructor presence, much less high academic standards—often turned confusion into chaos.

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Edsurge

Is it accessible to all learners? Of course, following interoperability standards can help ensure the entire system works together and makes it faster, cheaper and easier to make future changes or additions to the ecosystem. How will the technology work with other tools? Does it align with the curriculum?

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Access the assignment provided by the teacher. Once that is completed, access other challenges via online apps (usually third party, outside of the eSpark app), new videos, or something else. Here’s what students do: Log into the eSpark app with the username and password picture provided by the teacher. Begin the first quest.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Based on universal access to free and equal schools, the social contract for public education equates the attainment of a high school diploma with readiness for college, meaningful participation in the workforce, and the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

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Education Leaders Propose Ways to Add Teacher Voice to Research Decisions

Edsurge

Most educators access information about their profession through online searches, social media, colleagues, supervisors, their professional association or a journal subscription. Invite the IES to present and/or conduct learning sessions at annual conferences. For most of the day, education leaders broke into groups and got to work.

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Play Is Disappearing From Kindergarten. It’s Hurting Kids.

Edsurge

Across the country, kindergarteners are pressured to meet academic standards that both teachers and experts say many kids are developmentally not ready for. As the students move about, teachers observe, record, confer, participate, push extension questions and use this information to plan next steps.

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