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How To Use Variations on Think-Pair-Share in the Secondary Classroom | A Lesson Plan for Teachers

Think-Pair-Tweet: For vocabulary or people review, have students write simple tweets on the key terms. Learning to summarize in 160 characters or less can be a huge challenge!"
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Schools rethinking classroom design to encourage collaboration, creativity

"The idea of a classroom that can be rearranged to fit the activity — individual work, class discussion, group projects — has faced some pushback. Critics of the so-called open classroom a...

Edgewater charter school gets approval from School Board - News - Daytona Beach News-Journal Online - Daytona Beach, FL

district’s Director of Planning Saralee Morrissey. “It’s one of our older areas. But I do think it has the potential to change over time as more moderately priced housing becomes available. A...

LRNG Support

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10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking

how to get along with their peers and work well with others. This is not something that can be cultivated through rote memorization or with strategically placed posters. Students must be engaged an...

God Save the Routine

"rigor that is essential to deeper learning. It's time for some #realtalk about PBL. Debunking these five myths tones down the hype around PBL and instead honors the struggles of teachers...

OPINION: Advice about how to raise the high school graduation rate — from students themselves - The Hechinger Report

what young people are asking for isn’t actually very complicated: Do we believe in them? Will we listen to them and take their challenges and feelings seriously? And will we support them on their...

A blueprint for the future of relevant schools | Ditch That Textbook

innovative model of school on three key components: Process: Students get a choice in their path to educational success — during school and post-graduation. Their plans are based on their goals a...

The Seven Myths Keeping Teachers from Designing Makerspaces - John Spencer

Too often, we associate makerspaces with STEM classes. People think about coding or robotics or 3D prototyping. But I’d argue that we need a bigger definition of making. When students create blog...

Engage Your Community with Parent Digital Citizenship Academies | Common Sense Education

In the Alisal Union School District in Salinas, California, we aim to establish a whole-community approach to digital citizenship. We've had great results with our Digital Citizenship Academies...

Insights from the business world | SmartBrief

list of business lessons that, if practiced regularly in our educational halls, will strengthen student learning and improve the overall quality of our educational product. Engage, engage, engage....

Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix

freshmen spend one afternoon each week visiting a different business or community organization in order to identify internship opportunities they’d like to pursue in their sophomore year.James Th...

Implementing a BYOD Program: Step 1 - Resources

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Networked learning - Wikipedia

decentralize the process of learning and enrich it through contact with many places and people all over the city: workshops, teachers at home or walking through the city, professionals willing to t...

How to Design Classrooms Effectively for Digital Learners

how to design classrooms effectively for their learners’ needs. With that initiative have evolved solid ideas for the most crucial elements needed to achieve this. According to Envision, there ar...