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A vision for education in MA in the next 20 years -published by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education
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I would love to see more teachers doing this.
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From Richard Byrne
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An interesting look at the headlines from around the country regarding the Opt-Out movement.
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It's always interesting to follow the $ and see who is paying researchers for their opinions
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States in the Southeast suspend K-12 students at the highest rates in the country, according to new data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education...Suspended students are less likely to graduate on time and they are more likely to repeat a grade and enter the juvenile justice system, data show.
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From Slate - New data on child well-being released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation make for depressing reading on many levels, not least because the findings are so deeply unsurprising. The basic gist is that, despite the economic recovery, more kids are living in poverty...
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Free website grader
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Great letter from Pernille Ripp to an administrator (John Bernia) about what the goal of the evaluation process should be for teachers.
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How one teacher uses a blog and postcards to connect with families
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Good overview of how-to use social media successfully from Harvard Business Review
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Good call to administrators from Bill Ferriter on why Principals need to embrace social media tools
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From Keys to Literacy -Text structure is the arrangement of ideas and the relationships among the ideas; readers and writers who are familiar with text structure recognize how the information is unfolding. Common Core Reading Standard #5 focuses on teaching text structure.
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New updates to Educlipper highlighted by Richard Byrne
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Great piece on PB from Seymour Papert
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Funny but true - resource for school leaders to review
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Good piece from Harvard Business Review
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Good resource for connecting with colleagues or parents - FreeConferenceCall.com makes it easy for anyone to quickly create a free and private conference call number.
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From Larry Ferlazzo - Substitute the word “teachers” for “doctors” and in many ways it provides a very similar critique to the one many of us educators (and researchers) give to Value Added Measurements
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Chance favours the connected mind, said Steven B. Johnson, and with social media, any mind can be connected today. No special tools or software are required, only the meta-cognition inherent in all people. Stepping outside our routines and looking at how we get information, and from whom, should be a regular reflective activity.
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Post on how the student help desk was started at Francis Wyman Elementary in Burlington
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From Richard Byrne: "HSTRY is a great multimedia timeline creation tool. There are two features of HSTRY that make it stand-out from the crowd. First, as a teacher you can create an online classroom in which you can view all of your students' timelines. Second, as a teacher you can build questions into timelines that you share with your students. You can even insert explanations of the answers to your questions"
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A look at how MA is looking to make college more affordable
- Stop repeating nonsense about ‘bad’ teachers. Just. Stop it. - Icing on the Cake - An education blogA good post refuting the following often cited statistic about teachers: ‘Teachers who work in a given school, and therefore teach students with similar demographic characteristics, can be responsible for increases in math and reading levels that range from a low of one-half year to a high of one and a half years of learning each academic year.’
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Exactly, yes it was, but let us wonder why he got hit and then privately go and fix it. Smart play just 3 weeks late https://t.co/pODgygO38b
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Here are over 40 drills we use in our workouts. http://t.co/ljWxFnLRL4
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Great rant by Alfie Kohn on the misguided focus on measurable objectives
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Great post by Vicki Davis on delaing with bullying proactively
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Great post by Kristen Wideen on using Explain Everything to teach reading
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Great piece from Danah Boyd on Screen Time and parental concerns
Sunday, July 26, 2015
My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (July 26, 2015)
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