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What Can You Do with an English Degree

Kyle Pace

Others find their niche in literary analysis, contributing to academic journals or publishing critical essays on literature and culture. Teaching English at the primary, secondary, or post-secondary level allows one to impart knowledge about literature and writing and inspire a new generation of thinkers and writers.

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Why Young Children Should Learn Engineering

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Analysis of Data for Planning and Redesign: Again, for young students, this might happen quickly or after many iterations, but it’s important for the teacher to talk to students and ask them what they think about their design. Heather graduated with a Bachelor of Science in secondary education with a concentration in mathematics.

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Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching

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A decorated educator of 21 years, Monica has received honors and awards from a wide variety of organizations for her leadership, advocacy, and classroom instruction. She has 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, writing, and policy analysis, primarily in education.

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Join Us for the Third Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 23rd, 2018 in Boston

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Trained in both developmental psychology and education, Jackson is one of the nation’s leading experts on secondary school education reform and adolescent development. Find out how you can get involved with and utilize ASCD’s resources on Global Competencies for Educational Leaders.

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Homework: Helpful, Harmful, or Otherwise?

Reading By Example

This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. Both facilitated a unique learning experience in our home. To be fair, homework that I just described is rare.

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Data-Driven Decision Making: Who’s the decider?

Reading By Example

For example, Samantha Mosher, a secondary special education teacher, guides her students to develop their own IEP goals as well as how to use various tools to monitor their own progress. Additionally, I don’t believe we should stop with our current approaches to data analysis.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

eSchool News

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. A cost analysis of Reading Recovery and alternative interventions under the i3 Scale-Up.