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What Principals Need to Know About High Quality Instructional Materials

Education Elements

The most successful school leaders we work with understand that high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) improve student engagement and are a key resource in addressing schooling loss.

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

Edsurge

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

I also tend to think that educators make rational responses in selecting instructional materials and tools (including using social media) – and certainly in the U.S. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.

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3 Tips for Easily Implementing Social-Emotional Learning – by John Gamba

ViewSonic Education

But here’s the rub: Many of the programs that schools rely on to teach critical coping skills, like social-emotional learning (SEL) , don’t produce positive outcomes for students struggling with a variety of needs. Sixty-three percent said the use of video helped increase the relevancy and quality of instructional materials.

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Quality over quantity: Rethinking edtech time in the classroom

eSchool News

Relatively small doses of digital content supplement lessons and cement student learning by, among other things, engaging and motivating students, filling gaps in core instructional material, providing targeted support or reinforcement of concepts, or connecting lessons to real-world scenarios.

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Strong Planning, Coaching, and Implementing with Fidelity– A Blended Learning Success Story

Education Elements

This model was the best fit with existing campus and district initiatives, including the implementation of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) in Math and ELAR classes. At Education Elements, we partnered with Seguin ISD on this work, collaborating on three key steps which led to an increase in student-driven outcome data.

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CoSN 2019: K–12 Schools Address Digital Equity with Curriculum Framework

EdTech Magazine

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. For students who do not have appropriate materials in K–12, it can cost an additional $3,000 to earn a bachelor’s degree. .

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