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

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Picture a classroom full of students excited to learn about money. You can also follow them on social media at EVERFIK12. Join the 60,000+ educators who are already using EVERFI and add these lessons to your classroom today!

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I Can’t Tell Them What They’ll Do (Classrooms, Justice, and Legacies)

The Jose Vilson

I arrive in my classroom every morning at around 7:20 am, 40 minutes before my students trickle in. I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. As if the plastic desktops and semi-silent rooms in my classroom were one of their few constants.

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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

Hapara

Educate Learners need to be educated about copyright; reliable sources; appropriate communication for email, texting or social media; and how to safely shop online. Learners don’t often use email since they text or send messages on social media apps, but they’ll also need to be able to write professional emails.

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

Edsurge

But for all the conversations in the news and on social media, one place we’re not seeing it as much is in schools themselves. In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas. Embedding a social-emotional learning lens into instruction.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” We’ve made it our mission to build lessons that nurture 21st century academic success and empower extraordinary teaching.

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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths. said Superintendent Chad Shealy.

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The Definition Of Combination Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Citizenship; self-knowledge; stuff you’re curious about; the kinds of things other people study; family or community needs; academic standards; where you feel incomplete or underdeveloped. This ideally would start outside the classroom. . Who wants or needs to know? Roles (point of views to think/act from). Problems/Challenges.

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