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Four years after the pandemic shuttered schools, we all want to be done with COVID. But the latest analyses from three assessment companies paint a grim picture of where U.S. children are academically and that merits coverage. While there are isolated bright spots, the general trend is stagnation. One report documented that U.S. students did…
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. That’s made improving attendance a rare point of bipartisan agreement. A new coalition…
Four years after the pandemic shuttered schools, we all want to be done with COVID. But the latest analyses from three assessment companies paint a grim picture of where U.S. children are academically and that merits coverage. While there are isolated bright spots, the general trend is stagnation. One report documented that U.S. students did…
How Teachers Can Improve Their Math Instruction is the headline of one of my recent Ed Week columns. Educators know there’s always more to learn, for themselves and their students. These posts share ways to build on their teaching savvy. Here’s an excerpt: How Teachers Can Improve Their Math Instruction is the headline of one…
geralt / Pixabay At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM. Here are the latest: Create AI-Powered YouTube Quizzes in Seconds is from TechNotes. I’m adding it to…
Dr. Katie Toppel is a SIOP author and language specialist with extensive experience supporting multilingual learners through collaboration, co-teaching, and small group instruction. As educators, we know the value of professional learning that is relevant to our work, yet so often the opportunities presented to us are not a match with what we want…
Tumisu / Pixabay I recently moderated a panel on student goal-setting for the National Association of English Learner Program Administrators. In addition to moderating the discussion, I made also made a brief presentation. As I said then, there are few teachers in the world who have tried as many different versions of student goal-setting…
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2022 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: In an organized classroom, students feel their time…
