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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

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While many publications wrote about the announcement at the nation's second-largest public school, details about what the $6 million system actually does have been thin. Typically these tools can only be accessed as independent entities where a student has to go through a different login for each of these tools,” she added.

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A Third of Homeless Students Are Chronically Absent. Would an ‘Attendance Culture’ Help?

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The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. Whether students feel like they belong at school is really important for academic achievement or even getting them to show up, she says.

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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Learners achieve higher achievement scores in math One 2016 randomized study by Roschelle et al found that students attained higher achievement scores when teachers combined one-on-one attention and web-based homework tools. The majority of learners are comfortable using their personal devices to access schoolwork.

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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

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Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. Here’s what I came up with: have necessary apps on iPads and smartphones to make access the internet easier. Life often interferes with work. What did I miss?

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How Data Drives Strategies for Improved Student Outcomes

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These decisions are informed by analyzing various types of data, such as academic achievement, non-academic factors, program and systems data, and perception data. It allows for comparing a student's growth over time and also noting their achievements against benchmarks. That's one way to figure out where to shine our light.

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American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

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As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. The answer? Not enough.

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement. Does homework cause achievement or do high achievers do more homework? When students are intrinsically motivated to do their homework, they are more engaged in the work, which in turn is associated with academic achievement.

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