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3 Fun Tech Classroom Projects for Summer

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Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Let’s dive in!

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An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars

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But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

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Senate found that Monarch School’s students had poor reading and math skills when compared to public schools in the San Diego area, especially for elementary students. But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8

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A Socratic Seminar for Elementary Learners

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I’ve used them successfully in my teaching training classes but never with elementary learners. Support providing evidence-based arguments. I introduced the Socratic Seminar to my two groups gifted elementary learners, ages 7 to 12, through the following slidedeck and by using Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches.

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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears

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Formulaic writing, especially tasks completed within the span of a class period, robs students of the opportunities to consider their audience and think strategically about their argument and voice. Like many teachers who grappled with ChatGPT, my initial concerns were that these moments would become another casualty of AI.

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Teachers Have Little Say When School Districts Make Decisions. Here's How We Change That.

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Quite frankly, this argument relies on decontextualized data to assess student performance. As a mother of two elementary-aged children, I experienced a robust remote experience. Tying the student success during this unstable time to teacher performance is both ridiculous and not that simple. No two schools are the same.

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Is Student Absenteeism a Growing Problem at Colleges, Too?

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school. And I think that there's some arguments out there that because there's been so much work to remove some of those obstacles for students, they're less equipped to manage them. If so, what’s driving the trend?

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