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Excellent Free STEM Strategies from TGR Foundation and Discovery

The CoolCatTeacher

Objective of this module “In this learning module, called (Re)Defining STEM, learn how to view STEM education with an updated lens, understand the principles for effective STEM teaching and learning, and come away with concrete strategies and activities that can transform student learning no matter the discipline.” Who is TGR Foundation?

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New NWEA Study Points to Instructional Strategies Driving Academic Growth

eSchool News

Chase Nordengren, principal research lead for Effective Instructional Strategies at NWEA, the study zoomed into two schools that have historically shown high growth for diverse populations of students, including through the pandemic. Share students and strategies within a grade level Exposing students to more content 5.

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Racial Injustice: Teaching Resources

Catlin Tucker

The Teaching Tolerance website includes lessons, texts, tasks, and teaching strategies teachers can use to guide students in exploring and discussing social justice topics. Lessons include: Lesson objectives Essential questions Materials–teaching strategies, handouts, and texts Key vocabulary Procedure.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

Connecticut, a state that has a reputation for keeping rather accurate attendance records, shows that chronic absenteeism was worst among older high school students and the youngest elementary school students in kindergarten. Chang says that scheduled teacher visits to families’ homes are a “proven strategy.”

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Racial Injustice: Teaching Complex Issues

Catlin Tucker

The Teaching Tolerance website includes lessons, texts, tasks, and teaching strategies teachers can use to guide students in exploring and discussing social justice topics. Lessons include: Lesson objectives Essential questions Materials–teaching strategies, handouts, and texts Key vocabulary Procedure.

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CoSN IT Leader Spotlight: David Jarboe

eSchool News

This last year, we wrote and received a grant allowing us to install STEAM labs in all of our elementary and middle schools. A major IT challenge is providing equitable access to relevant technology for staff and students in meeting the instructional demands for today’s learners.