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How We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty

Literacy / September 27, 2017 / Equity

We saw a need for a reading program and created one via teacher empowerment, focus on reading strategies, and high-interest texts.

Teaching / September 22, 2017

Using the TED Talks format, students create speeches to inform and persuade their peers about key social, cultural, & environmental issues.

Critical thinking questions include, ‘Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?”

Homework can be useful to help students learning, but isn’t always the best strategy. Here are alternatives to homework: a chart for teachers.

Learning / September 19, 2017

Video recording can help students express themselves in a more natural language than the tone they’d use to construct written ideas.

In an effort to give back to his community, Chance the Rapper has noticed a disparity and is working to improve his hometown of Chicago.

Technology / September 15, 2017 / Apple

Do digital learners prefer hyperlinking data sources in an assortment of media forms from a range of media sources?

Learning / September 13, 2017 / Video Games

Here, colleagues share their experiences with incorporating game-based learning into instruction and reflecting upon the outcomes.

Rather than allow one genre to dominate the list, we chose to collect a diverse range of 50 of the best education accounts on Twitter.

Teaching / September 11, 2017

Teaching Positive In The Face Of Negativity: What Is Your ‘Why’? by Rachelle Poth What is your ‘why’? How can

Technology / September 11, 2017

What impact and effect on student performance can we expect from this education technology and on what do we base that expectation?

Literacy / September 8, 2017 / Essential, Useful

A learning journal is an ongoing collection of writing done for the purpose of learning rather than the purpose of demonstrating learning.