Category: Business
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A Better Alternative To Grading Student Writing
Great writing starts at the beginning, whether with an idea or need or purpose of social context or spark of inspiration. Whatever it is that ’causes’ the writing to begin–what’s wrought there at the beginning is kind of like a lump of clay. Without that clay, not much could happen and the quality of that…
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It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom
Limiting the craft of writing to a single content area has altered the landscape of students’ minds in ways that are only now being revealed as math teachers are told to teach writing. Students are now used to flinging rudimentary understandings on exit slips in broken sentence fragments, taking notes that neatly curate other people’s…
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Back To School Social-Emotional Basics: Relationship, Rhythm, Release
As our elementary students head back to school in person, in this very new way, there will be many emotions stirred up in them. Alarm. Frustration. Worry. Excitement. And this will be mirrored by what we, as adults, may also be experiencing. For our teachers, on top of what they will be emotionally experiencing themselves,…
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Creating Students Who Solve Problems
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The Long-Term Effects Of Remote Learning May Not Be All Bad
Because of COVID-19, school cafeterias, gyms, and playgrounds across the country sit silent. Ungraded papers and textbooks collect dust, and halls that once rang with student laughter are empty. And in the hope that the pandemic does not squash the ability to learn and grow all together, educators are implementing an entirely new style of…
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How Working from Home Is Transforming Learning
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