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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses is a leader in online professional development, with over 280 courses in 20 different subjects, including topics like online instruction, social-emotional learning, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Custer is a leader in character education and civic advocacy. Website: www.usd266.com/chsm

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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Improving reading skills and SEL through text-based discussions

eSchool News

As the importance and benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) have become more widely recognized, many teachers have struggled to combine this type of learning with their required curriculum. And, the goals for students engaged in this type of learning include self-esteem, empathy, motivation, and commitment.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. Let’s start a movement.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school.

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