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Coding for Kids: How to Boost Academic Achievement

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Coding boosts academic achievement while simultaneously embedding life-long skills in learners. Elementary-aged learners are capable of providing computers with instructions to achieve a specific outcome through code! why is it important to introduce coding in elementary school? What are the long-term benefits of coding?

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How Has the Pandemic Changed the Way Educators Think About Homework?

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Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. I think that now more than ever we need to make sure that whatever we’re teaching has some relevance to the real world,” Salazar said. “It It also gives parents a chance to be involved in their child’s education.

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A Chess Class for Elementary Students (with a DIY micro:bit -Driven Chess Clock)

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Below is a video clip of its soft start where she and another students are teaching some of their classmates how to play. Teaches Strategic Thinking, Planning, and Foresight. To be able to fulfill larger tasks in life, kids need to learn how to create a ‘plan of attack’ and outline plausible, step-by-step ways to achieve goals.

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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

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Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

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For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Embracing Flexibility? Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving.

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Grading Apps, Tools, and Resources We Love

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It is flexible and easy to learn, so the educator can monitor learner activities. Edusight – Edusight is an app that allows elementary educators to collect and monitor accurate data about their learners. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Are there any apps that you would add?

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American Students Deserve a Multilingual Education

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Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years.

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