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Two Cities Pay Teachers Based on Their Quality. Does It Work?

ED Surge

Dallas’ Teacher Excellence Initiative measures teacher quality based on student achievement scores, teacher performance and student experience surveys. Student achievement is scored based on test scores and individual improvement. Yet many of those high performing teachers are clustered in already high-achieving schools.

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

ED Surge

One of the biggest complaints about the HyFlex model is the logistical challenge for the teacher of attending to those in the physical classroom as well as those logging in remotely on Zoom. That’s why Rhoads argues that institutions should invest in making courses more flexible rather than just leave the work to those teaching the courses.

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Align Your Edtech Investments With What Matters Most

ED Surge

Beyond the logistical concerns involved in deploying more than 25,000 Windows devices to students and teachers, this effort also represented a stress test for the district’s commitment to equity and access for all of its students. Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

ED Surge

In part, that’s due to logistical challenges. The pressures put on young people to achieve, perform and produce, are greater than ever. Too often, the older students get, the less schools prioritize SEL. The reality is that in many ways, adolescents are in more acute need of social-emotional support than their younger counterparts.

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6 Must-reads for This Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

In Bold School, Kieschnick lays out an effective, workable education framework that blends common sense with technology while reminding teachers that tech is a useful tool for achieving pedagogic goals, not the opposite. The method is simple: Select a template and blend in your unique grade-level content at the right places.

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Our school approach in teaching sustainability

Scientix

We work continuously to secure and coordinate support that targets academic and non-academic barriers to achievement in order to promote improved outcomes for students, families, and communities. National curricula also face logistical, social, and political barriers.

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Building & Using an Elementary STEM Curriculum Map

STEM Sport

Early implementation of the STEM curriculum leads to confidence and increased student achievement in STEM, which helps better prepare students for higher education and future careers. It is also important to focus on the identification of specific skills and learning outcomes students should achieve at each grade level.