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Education Trends
The Strategic Imperative for Schools: Technology as Connector
If schools hope to prepare students for an unknown future, they must make technology easy to use -- through hardware, software, mindset, and practice.
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Place-Based Learning
Technology, PBL, and Place-Based Education
A project- and placed-based learning school learns to use cutting-edge technology in the classroom while maintaining a close relationship to its stunning natural setting.
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Inquiry-Based Learning
Preparing a Classroom Culture for Deeper Learning
The art of thinking flourishes within an emotionally, intellectually and physically safe learning environment that is carefully constructed by the classroom teacher.
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Education Trends
Reflecting on a Flat School
One school rearranged its staff duties and decision-making process to widen the range of ideas and involvement for operating efficiently and effectively.
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Student Wellness
National Nutrition Month: Best Web Resources for Teachers
Explore some of the best teaching resources for National Nutrition Month in March.
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Apps
PBL Pilot: Apps, Tips, and Tricks
Fifth grade teachers share some of their favorite apps for rubrics, editing, and assessment that are streamlining the classroom workflow in their PBL pilot program.
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Differentiated Instruction
Quality Instruction + Differentiation: Beyond the Checklist
Differentiate instruction through PBL or UBD by personalizing the driving question, having students design their own outcomes, and using the need to know process.
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Formative Assessment
The Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit: Document Learning with Mobile Technology
To assess your students' ongoing awareness of what and how they're learning, consider using cameras, screenshots, video, and screencasting as everyday classroom tools.
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Literacy
Transforming Silence: Poetry and Performance
Teaching poetry becomes a powerful group activity through individual and communal observation and explanation, creative response to poems read aloud, and celebrating student work.
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Education Equity
Empowering Educators Through Cultural Competence
We're teaching students, not just curriculum, so cultural competence should equal professional competence, especially with students who don't share our background or level of privilege.
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