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

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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

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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

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Open rubrics from the 1EdTech community can help start the vetting process on data privacy , security , accessibility and generative AI , while CASE Network 2 helps to align those tools with academic standards. The ecosystem as a whole is making a major impact.

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

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Throughout the year, Two Rivers holds four student-led, parent-teacher conferences. Heyck-Williams says these conferences help families understand the grading system, as students sit down with the data to discuss their strengths and weaknesses. We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. .

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Education Leaders Propose Ways to Add Teacher Voice to Research Decisions

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We’re only going to get to the root of these problems if we think about them together,” said Doug Paulson, director of academic standards at the Minnesota Department of Education, who participated in the event on behalf of the Council of State Science Supervisors.

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eSpark–Self-paced Learning for Math and Reading

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Learning is aligned not just with Common Core and Next Generation Learning Standards, but with many state standards like Ohio’s Learning Standards, Michigan Academic Standards, and Illinois Learning Standards. It works with Google Classroom–now that’s exciting.

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

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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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