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Educators today are faced with the daunting task of teaching students that face personal and social-emotional challenges on a broad scale unlike any other...
How to use digital badges in the classroom
As anyone who has spent time in a classroom can attest, traditional assessment methods often don’t measure everything. That’s where digital badges come into...
What kind of educator are you?
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Twitter is the home for hundreds of educational chats each week. Some of us lurk, while many of us actively participate...
Three pandemic lessons for teachers to carry forward
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As educators in the pandemic, we’ve had to redesign entire lessons, units, and courses on the fly while learning new technology such...
Planning and instructing for deep learning
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This series of deep learning commentaries is built on the idea that strong basic and deep learning content, skills, and attitudes are...
The case for grade-level instruction as schools reconvene
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Along with issues of health and
safety, concerns about making up for lost learning are a major source of anxiety
for educators and parents...
Teaching students math fact fluency
Much of what we know about teaching students math facts is wrong. Timed tests are the primary culprit.
Authors Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling...
#ELMagChat Recap: How to cultivate deeper online discussions
As educators continue to conduct most of their teaching online, the questions about how to cultivate good discussions are adding up. Discussion is one...
5 essential trauma-informed priorities for remote learning
As the COVID-19 pandemic upends communities worldwide, trauma-informed practices to support students who have experienced childhood trauma are more urgent than ever.
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