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4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary

Direct Instruction, Modeling, Immersion, and Varied Interactions are four of the many keys to developing academic vocabulary in students.

Google Drive will be available to all Google Apps for Education users with unlimited storage, Vault, and enhanced auditing tools for free.

l Common Core Will Ultimately Fail by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education The current strong backlash to the Standards is completely predictable. Any

Students love music. It’s engaging, and offers an accessible and authentic format to access ideas and draw standards-related teaching from.

Our fascination with uniformity has something to do with our constant need to “scale” everything across billions and billions of people.

Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a sequence of words: Sally and her seashells, Peter and his peppers.

I was moved to share Bryan Stevenson’s “We Need To Talk About An Injustice,” because of its authenticity, utility, and value for teachers.

The included list highlights some of the best study apps out there, from stalwarts like Evernote and Any.Do to others like CamScanner & Zite.