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A VERSATILE DISCUSSION-BASED HUMANITIES GAME TO PRACTICE ARGUMENTATION AROUND ANY TEXT OR TOPIC FOR GRADES 6 THROUGH 12

"Easy-to-use tools help students break down writing tasks, while giving teachers and administrators the power to create assignments, real-time assessments, and standards based grading"

"For students in Grades 2-5, LEGO Education StoryStarter is the helping hand that kick-starts creativity and boosts reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. With StoryStarter, learners work together to create and build stories with LEGO bricks and figures and then use the unique StoryVisualizer software to photograph, write, and publish their stories."

""What's worked well for us is the whole teamwork thing, realizing that we can't do it by ourselves and it's ridiculous to think we can," said King. "We show no shame in letting each other know when we fail." In addition, the school decided to group children by ability for 30 minutes daily in both math and English across the grade. That allowed some children to catch up, and a deeper dive for others even as they all learned the same basic material together. The change meant that for an hour each day, teachers left their classes and took a group of students that could number between 3 and 15, who were at a similar learning ability for that subject. As a result, the lessons, and the assessment of the children, had to be in lock-step. The strongest and weakest teachers worked as a team, and often met at the end of the day to discuss which lessons worked and which didn't. They also kept track of the progress of individual students using "exit tickets" or short assessments on tablets at the end of each class."

"APTT is a family Engagement in education model developed by Maria C. Paredes, It is designed to increase the quality and quantity of parent-teacher communication and interaction focused on student learning and achievement. This video is part two of three team meetings between teacher and parents in a first grade classroom."

"What this is: Hundreds of samples of Common Core-aligned student work from K-12 classrooms around the country. Why it matters: The shifts require that teachers gain fluency in identifying Common Core-aligned writing techniques at every grade level. "

"Google's cloud-based organizer is designed to help take the clutter out of everyday class assignments. Leveraging features from other Google web apps, Classroom lets teachers and students communicate, collaborate, share assignments and get real-time grades and feedback."

Many students struggle to read well enough to support learning in various areas of the curriculum. Drawing on an eight-month inquiry, with 28 grade five students, this article discusses text-to-speech technology as an inclusive reading practice that allows students entry into their literacy communities, access to a variety of texts, and enhanced meaning making.

"Help your students improve their grammar and writing skills Create assignments and quizzes without doing any grading Target Common Core skills using your students' interests Provide students with unlimited help whenever they need it Track growth using our color-coded heat maps"

"Story Share provides relevant and readable content for students who read below grade level beyond elementary school. In doing so, we aim to inspire reading practice and improve literacy skills. By leveraging the combined powers of interactive web design and best practices in literacy instruction, our platform will bring together writers, readers, and educators to engage and support readers who struggle."

"Traverse - which stands for Teaching Respect, Attitude, Versatility, Empathy, Responsibility, Success and Ethics - identifies students performing the bottom 15 percent at a particular grade and brings them through a program of character education, service learning and enrichments."

"-5 Formative Assessment Lessons (FALs) Edit 0 34… These Formative Assessment Lessons are the results of the work of the Kentucky Mathematics Design Collaborative. Thank you, Kentucky teachers and coaches!"

"A parody of the Miley Cyrus music video, it examines the love-hate relationship that students have with the national AP exams each May"

had to take a few steps back and realize that we had to teach students to unlearn the game of school and really learn to think

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Arne Duncan's address to an ASCD group