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Reading: A Novel Idea

Maybe this sounds familiar to you . . .

Your phone alerts you that your screen time has gone up 32% this week, every week. You make excuses. “Maybe I accidentally left my phone on overnight,” or “I must have fallen asleep watching TikTok,” or even “Surely that entire tv show I binged on my phone last night doesn’t count.”

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The Benefits of a Book Club

The books I love, someone else loved first.

The Old Man and the Sea: My dad took me to Borders to pick it out, because his dad read it to him as a kid. He read it to me every night for weeks.

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: One of my first chapter books. My mom reread it every month for book reports when

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BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life - High School Curriculum

BSCS Biology and Kendall Hunt are teaming up to announce the next generation in a line of BSCS Biology programs: BSCS Biology: Understanding for Life. This newest addition in science offerings addresses the requirements of a changing discipline while simultaneously providing classrooms with accessible curricula that triggers an interest in science.

Designed with the goal of aiding students to make well-infor

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From Memorization to Inquiry-Based Learning

Throughout my time in grades K-12, memorization was a requirement and treated as a prerequisite to success. In first grade, my teacher had our class memorize one Spanish tongue-twister a week to present. In fourth and fifth grade, my teachers would line us all up against the whiteboard to recite the multiplication and division tables. In middle and high school, my classmates and I memorized the plant cycle, cell cycle, and carbon cycle and all kinds of math formulas, from the Pythagorean Theorem to the Quadrati

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Get Excited About Math

Factoring reverses the multiplication process, it helps us to understand more about the equations we are working with, and it is an integral part of business, scientific, and engineering operations. When I first learned about factoring, I learned that my first step should look like an “M” (shown below), and my final answer should include two sets of parentheses. I never learned why or when knowing how to do this would be beneficial; in fact, I am learning the real-world applications for factoring for the first

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The Advantage of Diversity in Randomized Collaboration

What if you could boost innovative group work in your classroom just by implementing randomized group creation? This concept offers more diversity within teams which has more benefits than non-diverse teamwork environments. Every individual has something to bring to the table and utilizing each student’s unique background maximizes efficiency in group work. Putting different minds together leads to faster problem solving through the added personal knowledge. Combining diverse backgrounds and experiences will he

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5 ways to create meaningful parent involvement

Meaningful parent involvement not only benefits the whole classroom, but every child you are teaching. This type of two-way communication is crucial for students’ academic and social success.

The National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education researched critical school-home connections and concluded, “No matter their income or background, students with involved parent(s) are more likely to have high

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Illustrative Mathematics K-5 Math curriculum gets stamp of approval by EdReports

Kendall Hunt is excited to announce that the Illustrative Mathematics K–5 Math curriculum has met all three of the requirements from EdReports. This program fulfills expectations for Alignment to the CCSSM, Focus and Coherence, and Rigor and Practice-Content Connections.

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Fighting Summer Learning Loss

Those lengthy summer breaks are great for checking in on one’s mental health but also leads to educations biggest enemy, summer learning loss. So, what is “summer learning loss”, the “summer slide”, and “brain drain”? In short, these terms refer to the potential decline in student’s ability to retain material taught in the most recent academic year. It is cumulative and leads to years’ worth of material lost. Stu

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3 Tips To Create Classroom Culture That Students Can’t Deny

With the school year in full swing, teachers may be endlessly searching for ways to expand their effort as educators to create a positive classroom culture that nurtures individuality while also promoting engagement for every student. In 2020, the University of Turku looked closer at the connection between psychological safety in the classroom and an increase in engagement (Kaila, 2020). Educators can easily promote MORE LEARN