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Communicating a Concept With Instagram

A Principal's Reflections

You will choose a theme/concept statement from the statements we generate or address in our Socratic Seminar at the end of the play. A rubric as well as the Common Core Standards that are to be assessed can be found HERE. The requirements are as follows: IDENTIFY THE CONCEPT IN THE PLAY.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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2017 Teachers Pay Teachers’ July Conference — Overview

Ask a Tech Teacher

million education-oriented Pre-K through High School lesson plans, curricula, videos, classroom activities, assessments, books, bulletin board ideas, classroom decorations, interactive notebooks, task cards, Common Core resources, and more. Seminar Overview. million teachers buying or selling over 2.7 copyrights.

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Encourage critical thinking by turning your class into a Socratic Seminar

eSchool News

With so much talk about the Common Core standards and truly increasing our student’s argumentative powers and critical thinking skills, some teachers are starting to think critically themselves about how best to engage students in thoughtful debate and discussion around texts they need to analyze anyway. Reflection/assessment.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

That evolution has sped up since 2001, when the state introduced a requirement that students pass a statewide assessment (known as the MCAS) to earn a high school diploma. Vocational high schools asked for an exemption from the new rule but the state held firm, forcing those campuses to “step up their academic game,” Driscoll said.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wu Jianzhong Successfully Promoting Your Print and eBook Collections Through Social Networking - Abbe Waldron, Library Media Specialist/Educational Technologist What about second year seminar? Expanding Options in the Digital Age - Professor Lesley Farmer 9:00pm All Systems Go!

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What Close Reading Actually Means

TeachThought - Learn better.

Here is what the Common Core ELA Standards say: Students who meet the Standards readily undertake the close, attentive reading that is at the heart of understanding and enjoying complex works of literature. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. What is close reading?