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Share the best practices, best resources, best strategies—you might say the best of the best.
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K12HSN Technology News
- Ed. Schools Lag Behind Digital Content Trends
- Education Week: Casey Wardynski knew his district had to make a change when he glanced at its crop of history textbooks and spotted one glaring omission.
- Children's Spatial Skills Seen as Key to Math
- Education Week: Preschools and kindergartens long have taught children "task skills," such as cutting paper and coloring inside the lines. But new research suggests the spatial and fine-motor skills learned in kindergarten and preschool not only ...
- Windows XP Deadline Puts Pressure on Schools
- Education Week: Microsoft's plans to end support for Windows XP, believed to be the dominant computer operating system in K-12 education, could pose big technological and financial challenges for districts nationwide—issues that many school systems...
- Report: 85 Percent of Institutions Allow BYOD
- THE Journal: Eighty-five percent of educational institutions allow instructors or students to use their own devices on institutional networks according to a new survey from Bradford Networks.
- Here’s how to Scale School Innovation
- eSchool News: In a new TED talk, Adam Frankel, creator of Digital Promise, discusses how technology can help scale-up personalized learning and scale school innovation.
- Report: Early Childhood Teacher Evaluations Must
- THE Journal: Given the unique challenges faced by preK-3 teachers, teacher effectiveness at those levels should not be evaluated on student reading and math achievement alone but should also account for how young children actually learn, according to...
- Principal: Educator Evaluation System Unethical
- Washington Post: A few years ago, a student at my high school was having a terrible time passing one of the exams needed to earn a Regents Diploma. She took the test several times, but despite her very best efforts and the best efforts of her teachers...
- Tests in Works for Students With Severe
- Education Week: Mary Skinner-Alexander, a high school special education teacher in the Sioux Falls, S.D., district, has a student who communicates by directing his gaze at printed cards. Other students in her self-contained special education class...
- Pilot Hopes to Draw Students to Computer
- eSchool News: Students in Mike Reilly’s computer programming classes could be helping to bust the stereotype of the computer nerd hunched over a keyboard, writing programs that crunch numbers and sort lists.
- Do New Exams Produce Better Teachers?
- Education Week: It took less than a minute for Mario Martinez to finish the first six questions of the algebra exam that his professor, Ivan Cheng, had just handed to him.
- Best Crowdsourced iOS Apps
- Edudemic: We’re proud to introduce you to a new set of resources we think you’ll enjoy. It’s a curated list of the best education technology resources. But it’s not just organized by us. It’s now YOUR turn to share, vote up, and learn about all.
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BoE Community Group Activity
How are you addressing the needs of English learners along with the roll-out of California Common Core Standards in your schools?
Join the conversation in the English Language Development Community Group.
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The Charter Schools Best Practices Project provides charter school authorizers, school site administrators and classroom teachers with resources to:
- assist in planning and starting charter schools in California
- evaluate charter school petitions
- develop partnerships with other schools and local districts
- support instructional practices to increase student achievement
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- Share your vision for Education Technology in California Schools.
- Share your vision for visual and performing arts and creative education in California Schools.
- Share your vision for STEM education in California schools.
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Ensuring Rigor
Through AlignmentLearn to engage students through highly effective instruction guided by practical assessment strategies. Learn more
- Text/HTMLGet connected and find out more about the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in California and find resources to support Math and ELA Common Core Standards at your school.
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Featured Educators
Listen in as a panel of teachers share their experiences around building knowledge of their students. Watch video...
