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New Social Emotional Learning Resources Support Body Confidence Education for Elementary Students

3 days ago Jennifer

The Dove Self-Esteem Project and Discovery Education have teamed up to develop Amazing Me, an all-new program focused on social emotional learning (SEL), health and body confidence.  Numerous studies have shown that low self-esteem in adolescents can negatively affect their performance in school, their relationships with others and their self-perception. Through this new partnership, educators and parents will be empowered with tools to help encourage development in these critical areas among 4th and 5th grade students. 

These flexible, standards-aligned resources center around the subjects of building self-esteem, promoting positive body image

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3 SEL Resources to Engage Your Students This Fall 

3 days ago Jennifer

You can help kickstart healthy transformations for students in or out of the classroom this Fall with exciting new resources from LaGolda, the pro-social animated series and online educational program available on Discovery Education Experience. Following the adventures of the eponymous 8-year-old girl and her friends, LaGolda provides fun and uplifting content that makes it easy to engage young students in important SEL skill-building during a crucial stage in their development. 

Despite having lost her parents and experienced hardships as an orphan, LaGolda chooses to take a positive approach to life and never lets

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Civics knowledge among American adults jumps in new survey — but hold your applause

4 days ago Jennifer

  • Only 51 percent of respondents correctly said the Supreme Court has the final responsibility for deciding whether an action taken by the president is constitutional, lower than the 61 percent in 2019.
  • And when asked what a 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling means, only 54 percent correctly knew that the decision is the law and needs to be followed — a drop from 59 percent in 2019.

The survey, taken annually by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, found significant jumps in civics understanding on specific issues, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the center, said that

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New York City reverses school opening plan. Now most students will start remotely.

4 days ago Jennifer

De Blasio (D) had pledged to provide parents the option to send their children back to school for at least part of the week, allowing for social distancing, and provide virtual instruction the rest of the time. School buildings were set to reopen Monday.

But he faced significant pushback from many teachers and parents, who expressed concern about whether schools could adequately prevent a coronavirus outbreak, with many buildings having poor ventilation systems. There were also concerns about whether schools had enough personal protective equipment, such as masks.

“This is a huge undertaking,” de Blasio said at a news

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Why young kids should be allowed to learn through play (not worksheets)

4 days ago Jennifer

Carlsson-Paige is author of “Taking Back Childhood.” The mother of two artist sons, Matt and Kyle Damon, she is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps for work over several decades on behalf of children and families.

She has written before on this blog about how young children learn through play and how early-childhood education has been twisted over the past few decades by policies that focused on raising standardized test scores and pushed academic work into preschool.

Here is her new piece about reimagining early-childhood

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College applicants will make the pandemic a focus of their admissions essays. Should they?

4 days ago Jennifer

For many students, grade point averages will not include grades for the spring semester of the 2019-20 academic year, when schools closed as the pandemic hit and most districts went to pass-fail systems.

Because SAT and ACT admissions test administrations had to be canceled because of concerns about spreading the coronavirus, many students don’t have scores to include. As a result, two-thirds of U.S. colleges and universities have announced test-optional policies for students applying for fall 2021, according to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a nonprofit known as FairTest that works to end the misuse of standardized

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Virtual Professional Learning Resources at Your Fingertips with TGR EDU: Explore

5 days ago Jennifer

The all-new professional learning series for educators from TGR EDU: EXPLORE presents schools, particularly those from under-resourced communities, the access and materials needed to transform teaching during COVID-19 and beyond. These new resources build upon the suite of no-cost virtual learning resources offered by TGR EDU: EXPLORE, a joint initiative with TGR Foundation. TGR EDU: Explore delivers award-winning curriculum, family resources, and professional development to educators, students, and families nationwide.

Ultimately planned as a series of six professional learning modules, the first module, (Re)Defining STEM supports teacher agency by focusing on student-centered approaches to foster innovative, relevant, and engaging STEM

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The ‘logistical madness’ of hybrid school schedules — by nearly 50 frustrated teachers

6 days ago Jennifer

The city has a very low coronavirus infection rate now after being a pandemic hot spot in the spring, and de Blasio and others argue schools should open for students who want to attend.

On Monday, the mayor announced 55 positive coronavirus tests among New York City school employees who have been on campuses getting ready for the opening. That amounts to a 0.3 percent positivity rate among nearly 17,000 personnel tested, de Blasio said.

In this post, nearly 50 faculty members at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, a public school serving grades 6-12 in Queens, came together to write

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SAT Scores, Test-Takers Tick Down Amid COVID-19 Closures – Inside School Research

7 days ago Jennifer

Widespread and ongoing closures in the wake of the coronavius pandemic played havoc with college admissions tests this spring and summer, with both the average performance and participation declining, according to the annual report of the College Board, which administers the test.

Just under 2.2 million students took the SAT in 2020, about 22,000 students fewer than last year, and the number of students participating in the essay portion of the test fell from 64 percent to 57 percent. The average scores for the 2020 test also dropped, from 528 to 523 in math and from 531 to

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New Social Emotional Learning Resources Support Body Confidence Education for Elementary Students

3 days ago Jennifer

3 SEL Resources to Engage Your Students This Fall 

3 days ago Jennifer

Civics knowledge among American adults jumps in new survey — but hold your applause

4 days ago Jennifer

New York City reverses school opening plan. Now most students will start remotely.

4 days ago Jennifer

Why young kids should be allowed to learn through play (not worksheets)

4 days ago Jennifer