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Q&A: How A Top Educator Drives Innovation and Social Change In His Classroom

Last month, Microsoft awarded the nations top educators who are bringing technology and project-based learning to their classrooms in innovative and interactive ways. Greg Witkin of Boynton Continuation High School in San Jose, Calif. won first place in the Educator as Innovator and Change Agent category for his proje...

8 months ago by Jaclyn Norton

6 Powerful Google Docs Features to Support the Collaborative Writing Process

Google Docs is an online suite of digital tools that provides teachers with some powerful features to help students develop 21st century writing skills. Since Docs are collaborative and available 24/7, the tool is well-suited for facilitating digital writing workshops that combine peer editing with cooperative grouping...

8 months ago by Susan Oxnevad

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Staff Picks: K-12, Music, Neil Armstrong

Tom Picks “5 Lessons K-12 Could Learn From Skillshare” Tom ...

8 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Ed-Fi: Data Standard Gains Traction, Releases Version 1.1

Lori Fey directs policy initiatives including the sponsorship of the Ed-Fi data standard for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. The Ed-Fi solution is a universal educational data standard and tool suite (unifying data model, data exchange framework, application framework, and sample dashboard source code) that aligns...

8 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

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5 Lessons K-12 Could Learn From Skillshare

The launch of Wikipedia about a decade ago marked the beginning of anywhere, anytime learning (to borrow a phrase from a Microsoft laptop initiative in the 90s and a foundation that continues to advance the mission) where anyone with a broadband connection could learn almost anything. The anywhere, anytime shift - just...

8 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

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Curriculum Associates

Curriculum Associates, LLC, designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screening and assessment tools, and data management resources. We believe that every student deserves the chance to succeed and with our i-Ready™, Ready®, and BRIGANCE® programs, we strive to make this a reality with tools ...

5 Apps to Lower Teacher Anxiety & Raise Student Voices

The art of teaching sure has changed since I nervously stepped into my first class of thirty-two, energetic students fourteen years ago. I remember feeling pressure from the prescribed sage-on-the-stage pedagogy. Fortunately, I soon discovered that not only was I far from an academic scholar, but I also wasn’t the mo...

8 months ago by John Hardison

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E.L. Haynes: A Force For Change

Jennie Niles started her career as a s cience teacher at the famous Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. She now leads the equally famous E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington DC. The path in between could not have been better scripted: Yale for graduate school, a state department of education, a foundati...

8 months ago by Tom Vander Ark