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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

Edsurge

But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations. The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools. And for good reason. So let’s imagine.

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What Can You Do with an English Degree

Kyle Pace

This article unveils the varied paths one can take with an English degree. Whether it’s crafting articles, books, or digital content, English degree holders bring a nuanced understanding of language and narrative to these roles. An English degree is often met with questions about its practical applications.

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Quiet In The Classroom: How To Recognize And Support Introverted Entrepreneurs

EdNews Daily

Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. If you are a teacher who specializes in this topic, you can advocate for students, share workshops and articles about the topic, and when it comes to professional development, encourage other teachers to learn about personality differences.

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On ZTC, OER, and a More Expansive View

Iterating Toward Openness

They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy.

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Occupational therapy is the antidote for pandemic skill loss

eSchool News

While one client may want to pursue a skill like handwriting, another may be more interested in developing self-advocacy, decision-making, or goal setting skills. The reality is that OTs can assist people in many areas depending on clients’ needs and environments.

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Before assigning homework, ensure that students have a home

The Hechinger Report

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. The article showed that the total number of homeless students was more than the entire population of Albany, the state capital.

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If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER: The Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Yesterday IHE published an article about the “ inclusive access ” programs offered by most major textbook publishers. The inclusive access model’s goal of reducing the cost of textbooks apparently reminded the article’s author of OER, because she includes some discussion of OER toward the end of the article.

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