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• Update on Tick List

  
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  Well, as it turned out my entire Tick List got remodeled and now looks like this: Daily Work Tick List Chloe { 8 } Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Bible ...
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• What does Physical and Cognitive Access to Curriculum Mean?

  
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  Individuals with physical or sensory disabilities may encounter barriers when using traditional materials such as books, paper and pencil, keyboards, audiotapes without text equivalents, or videos lacking captions or audio descriptions. Broadly speaking, ensuring physical access to the curriculum includes enabling ...
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• Tip of the Week: Structured Academic Conversation

  
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  One of the best things about working with social studies teachers is that I get the chance to see all sorts of great ideas and strategies. Several weeks ago, I watched a teacher use something called a SAC or Structured Academic Conversation. It’s a discussion / debate strategy that I haven’t seen used before. And ...
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• Are We Really Waiting for Superman?

  
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  Having spent the last week thinking a lot about teacher preparation, I’d like to share a few more thoughts on teaching, teacher preparation, and student achievement. In the last two posts, we’ve seen that far too many teacher preparation programs eschew preparation and that, instead, there’s an emphasis on ...
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• Uncommon curriculum

  
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  Closing the vocabulary gap would help close the opportunity gap, argues Fordham’s Mike Petrilli, a guest on the Bridging Differences blog. Children from low-income families start kindergarten with an enormous vocabulary deficit, he writes. Preschools and elementary schools can build children’s vocabulary by ...
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• Michael Gove attacks use of Mr Men in iGCSE history lessons

  
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  The education secretary, Michael Gove , has attacked a "culture of low expectations" in English schools , criticising the use of Mr Men characters in teaching 15 and 16-year-olds about Hitler . Too many teachers were treating "young people on the verge of university study as though they have the attention span ...
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• Choices for Life Online 2013

  
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  Yes Choices for Life is back for 2013 on Wednesday 22nd May! The broadcast is aimed at all P7 pupils and teachers in Scotland and will have a focus around the risks and dangers of alcohol, negative peer pressure, substance misuse, aspirations and making positive healthy lifestyle choices. Following a similar lively ...
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• Metacognition and the digital age

  
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  I spent Monday in masterclass so to speak at the ACARA national roundtable on curriculum for the 21st century. The roundtable was an opportunity to hear from international experts and educators in the context of how we are responding at a national and local level to the rapidly changing world and how jurisdictions are ...
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• Its That Time of Year

  
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  The time of year that catalogs come in the mail and moms start finalizing their decisions for next year. I am kinda sad this spring because everything we used last year worked so incredibly well for us. It was a most smooth-sailing year! But unfortunately, (or maybe not) that means that I have no need to hunt and ...
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• Super Simple Recipes: A Healthy, Delicious Snack for Less Than a Candy Bar

  
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  Once you have the ingredients, this snack can be made almost as quick as unwrapping a pack of candy (well, maybe just a tad more work) and costs less than most single servings of candy bars. Plus, it is healthier and will provide more protein and nutrition than candy. I am referring to a classic recipe: Peanut ...
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• 7 talks for inspiring transformed curriculums

  
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  With more colleges shifting courses to the online classroom and high school teachers and students alike expressing a strong desire to move away from rigid, mandated lesson arcs, it’s clear — classes don’t have to be exactly as they are. Educators across the globe have begun to look at ways of transforming ...
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• Business Opportunities in Low Test Scores

  
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  Edweek : If the chart above appears only to be a mess of undecipherable bubbles, look more closely. The man who prepared it, Robert Lytle, a head of Parthenon Group’s Education Center of Excellence , sees a business opportunity. I’ll explain. The chart shows all 50 states plotted based on two factors: the ...
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• Villanova University Recognizes the Countless Contributions of Nurses During National Nurses Week

  
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  The University’s Renowned College of Nursing Helps RNs Develop the Expertise to Make a Greater Impact Through Its RN to BSN Program Online. TAMPA, Fla., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Villanova University’s new online RN to BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program provides the flexibility and expertise nurses ...
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• Top 10 Reasons We’re Losing Our Kids

  
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  Contemporary culture greatly influences our children’s moral behavior and development. As a result, the vast majority of Christian kids today have a woefully inadequate spiritual foundation. Fun and games are fine, but as the research indicates, we are raising a generation of children who have missed out on ...
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• Gone – An interactive, cross curricular alcohol education resource

  
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  Join us in Glow TV on Wednesday 15th May at 4pm for a Health and Wellbeing event, looking at the themes of growing up, the changing nature of friendships, pressures and choices, alcohol use, s*xting and resilience. It is aimed at pupils in second year of secondary school. Gone is an interactive, cross curricular ...
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• SCILT – Developing Language Skills through Phonics

  
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  Glow TV along with the SCILT Professional Learning Community is delighted to host a range of events beginning on Tuesday 14th May at 4pm. Presented by Lynne Jones and Meryl James, Professional Development Officers at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages this first workshop will consider the place of ...
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• Learning is the end in mind, not fun

  
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  Every year, back in my Derby Middle School teaching days, we did Kansas Day. A big Kansas Day. As in . . . invite the newspaper, Board of Education, and parents kind of Kansas Day. I was the social studies guy on a teaching team and my goal was to find a way to integrate my social studies activities with math, ...
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• How to Pick the Right Curriculum

  
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  Before you get too excited, let me say that this article will not suggest any one curriculum, or devalue any other curriculum. There are far too many choices out there for me to offer much wisdom in that area. Indeed, homeschooling has come a long way from the few publishers that would actually sell to a ...
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• Teaching the Aussie Way

  
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  Mrs BMW deserves more than a blogpost. She is worthy of quite a few accolades. She has put together a paper.li which is full of new fashioned goodness for Australian teachers. It means we have a vibrant place to go for current and up to date information for our classrooms and our professional standards. There are ...
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• Specialist Training: Cultivating Knowledge Management Professionals

  
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  Abstract: The growing importance of knowledge and innovation in the marketplace brings with it a need for the better management of professional knowledge for knowledge workers in the new economy. This chapter illustrates some major steps at the University of New South Wales, Australia, towards building an educational ...
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