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How play could save US education - Tech Insider - 0 views
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The main findings: The more play a school gives its student body, the greater rewards kids see in their character development, academic achievement, safety, and overall health.
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According to Vialet, structure is a child's best friend when it comes to play. While kids may have a built-in urge to run around and get dirty, playing with other kids is a social experience, which means it has to be learned.
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A 2013 study of the Playworks model from Stanford University found it led to 43% less bullying, 20% higher feelings of student safety, 43% more physical activity, and 34% less time transitioning from recess back to the classroom. A number of other studies suggest recess can also lead to better grades in school, regardless of the form it takes.
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10 tips for engaging pupils and parents in e-safety and digital citizenship | Teacher N... - 0 views
A Letter To Parents Of Digital Age Children - 0 views
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Providing a rich and engaging environment for your children
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Years later, I found out that they were visiting a questionable chat room where a stranger was vaguely threatening them.
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seventeen-year-old son of a Pakistani immigrant had connected with a like-minded geek with whom he had begun sharing ideas for creating apps — and soon a business was launched. His mystified father shook his head as he told this story. “I don’t know how he did that,” he said.
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As if being 12-years-old wasn't hard enough, a new study confirms many schools make it ... - 0 views
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They found being in a K-8 school, where kids were top dogs for longer created a better learning environment, marked by less bullying, and better academic results.
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“Top dogs are less likely to report bullying, fights, and gang activity and more likely to report feeling safe and welcome in school than bottom dogs due to their top dog status. In contrast, bottom dogs report higher rates of bullying, fighting, and gang activity and lower rates of safety and belonging than top and middle dogs.”
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According to Guido Schwerdt, from the University of Konstanz and Martin R. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, students moving from elementary to middle school suffer a sharp drop in student achievement in the year they move, which persists through tenth grade (transitions to high school in ninth grade cause a smaller one-time drop in achievement, but the effect does not persist).
The Marshall Memo Admin - Issues - 2 views
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1. What makes a team effective? 2. A new perspective on closing the achievement gap 3. Project-based learning 101 4. A school network experiments with high tech and student choice 5. Opening up a daily 40-minute block in a North Carolina high school 6. How to hold onto high-quality new teachers 7. The effect of reading about the struggles of accomplished scientists
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Project Aristotle, as it was dubbed, found that some team characteristics that seemed intuitively important – members sharing interests and hobbies, having similar educational backgrounds, socializing after hours – didn’t correlate with team success.
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The ‘who’ part of the equation didn’t seem to matter.”
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Student-Centered Learning: March 2016 | Matt Renwick - 0 views
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Kraft and his team found four attributes identified in schools that experienced consistently high achievement: School safety and order Leadership and professional development High academic expectations Teacher relationships and collaboration
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Specific professional learning offerings for teachers include one-to-one instructional coaching and school leadership opportunities. Teacher retention and higher test scores have been the result of these efforts.
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Educators can start reimagining instruction by asking ourselves what learning we experienced in our school careers that truly mattered in our lives. This reflection can lead to finding topics and themes from our current curriculum and assessing how well they fit within this mindset of lifeworthy learning. Four tenets of big understandings – opportunity, insight, action, and ethics – can serve as gatekeepers in this process.
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Six ways to keep teenagers safe online | Macworld - 0 views
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“If you wouldn’t say it, do it, or watch it with me in the room, it’s not okay.”
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Sit down with your kids to create an “acceptable use” policy for your own home—they’re much more likely to follow the rules if they’ve had a say in writing them
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Even if you enable restrictions, however, this isn’t a “set it and forget it” situation.
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8 Design Steps for an Academic Makerspace -- THE Journal - 0 views
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"Makerspaces are increasingly being looked to as a method for engaging learners in creative, higher-order problem-solving through hands-on design, construction, and iteration," the report noted.
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"Also, unless its purpose is aligned with school culture and values, it will not succeed,"
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First, make sure it is clear to you and the school why you are building a makerspace: It should be for the promotion of hands-on learning and collaboration,
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What Reflects a Great School? Not Test Scores - Education Week - 0 views
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Enduring achievement gains require not only applying content and concepts worth knowing, but also ensuring that learning is occurring in a healthy, thriving culture as well
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Is the principal visible in classrooms and noticing and commenting on teachers' and students' strengths?
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Joy in learning is essential to a healthy and productive school culture; fear and joy cannot coexist.
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