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Social Screen Time: How Best Practices in Edtech Enhance Social Emotional Learning
Technology has advanced so rapidly in the last two decades that many educators may feel a disconnect between the classrooms in schools they attended...
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Why Non-Proficient Adolescent Readers Require Intensive Literacy Instruction
Teaching adolescent non-proficient readers is an extremely complex matter, as the range of foundational issues that have followed students to...
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How Volunteers Can Support K–12 Instruction and Improve Student Reading Outcomes
By Jenny Inman
Dean of Students (and former Instructional Technology Coordinator) at Garton Elementary in Des Moines
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Re-engaging Dropouts Through Relationships, Personalization, and Blended Learning
Since 2000, schools across the nation have been seeing results from dedicated efforts to increase the nation’s graduation rate and to reduce the...
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Meeting Dyslexia Head-On: 3 Strategies for Success
Studies show that students with dyslexia are more likely to drop out of school or be clustered in 'ineffective schools.' Though this sounds dire, there are strategies to empower students with dyslexia to succeed.
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Full-Day Kindergarten: Pros, Cons, and State Requirements
Don't have time to read? Listen Now » Once an optional, preschool-like addition to elementary school programs, kindergarten has come...
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What Happened!? Top 4 Reasons Your Learning Technology Implementation FAILED
When schools and districts engage in technology-based learning initiatives, they often focus on the most immediate needs: purchasing the required...
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6 Tips to Help Students Develop a Growth Mindset in the Classroom
Don't have time to read? Listen Now » Between two students, one with the motivation to persevere after a mistake and one who refuses...
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4 Surprising Ways Comics and Graphic Novels Can Benefit English Language Learners
English language learners face a variety of challenges as they develop literacy skills in a new language. In addition to learning clear-cut...
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Instructional Support for Students with Dyslexia in Lexia Core5 Reading
Discover how Core5® helps students with dyslexia learn in a highly structured yet individualized way. If you have, or may have, a student with dyslexia in your classroom, this is a must read. Click now to read.
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What Makes Lexia® LETRS® Different: Integrating the Science of Reading into School Culture and Instructional Practices
Discover how leaders at Peabody Charter School use Lexia® LETRS® professional learning to ensure educators understand how students learn to read and apply the principles of the science of reading to improve literacy instruction and achievement.
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What Is a Title 1 Student? Key Facts for Educators
Learn what a Title 1 student is, how schools qualify for Title 1 funding, and the best ways parents and educators can support literacy and academic success.