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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Students can access learning materials outside of school. Ensuring internet access outside of school. Technology will help create equity in schools when it’s used powerfully.

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Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

Cloud storage solutions enable you to access your study materials from anywhere, making it easier to study on the go. Mindfulness, deep breathing exercises, and regular physical activity can help maintain mental well-being. For example, you could find a selection of study material at Studocu that you can utilize.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

The inherent value of this exercise was to observe and collect evidence to determine instructional areas that needed the most focus. Student agency (voice, choice, advocacy) – Are students empowered to own their learning (blended/personalized/virtual learning options, they select tool to be used, etc.)

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Students Are Learning Outside of School. Why Don’t They Earn Credit for It?

Edsurge

In each of these examples, ingenuity, creativity and initiative were exercised outside of the formal context of the classroom. There is a need for increased flexibility—live lessons and self-paced projects, new tools for self advocacy and creative tech platforms. caretaking for a newborn sister with a single working parent at home.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

Edsurge

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. Students have access to both a female and a male counselor and a social worker.

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‘Disruption’ or ‘free speech’?  College students face new rules on campus protest

The Hechinger Report

Some say their “fear-based” approach has gone too far and will discourage students from exercising their First Amendment rights for fear of punishment. The Associated Press reported that more than 3,000 people were arrested; many students were suspended, some were expelled and others temporarily lost access to their housing.

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