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Intersession Sparks Exploration and Lifelong Learning at The Nueva School
Nueva runs a PK-8 campus and a high school. Both these independent schools offer a six-day intersession for students to develop interdisciplinary exploration with real world experts, extending beyond the usual academic disciplines. Students choose...
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How Can You Create A Flex Block?
Adding a flexible block of time to your school schedule can help personalize learning for your students. But with an already busy schedule, how can you add another block of time? Won't students be missing important class time? What does a 'flex...
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Why Create A Flex Block?
Schools around the country have successfully personalized their students' learning by adding a flex block to their schedule. In what specific ways have students benefited? This video will explore five reasons – from real schools and educators - why...
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Example: The Myth of Learning Styles (IgnitED Research)
This video shares evidence from the learning sciences and a practitioner perspective around the myth of learning styles.
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Bilingual Binders at Dallas ISD
This picture illustrates an example of a bilingual binder used in a school in Dallas ISD. Students are given the option of using worksheets in both English and Spanish to take down the barrier of entry when self-monitoring mastery, progress,...
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Scaffolded Summary
Crafting sentence and paragraph stems can support students who are learning English in summarizing content in a more scaffolded way.
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Say Something Cards
Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.
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Total Language Response
How to use body language and non-verbal cues in addition to verbal directions to better support understanding for students who are learning English, as well as all students.
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Non-Verbal Representation
How to use non-verbal support (e.g., visual and auditory input) to communicate concepts, meaning, and to build vocabulary and content knowledge.
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Model, Model, Model
The teacher uses a variety of teaching styles during a “think aloud” to explicitly model for students what they will be doing during their independent practice. This modeling process eventually moves from the teacher modeling to the teacher modeling...
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How to Set Up Language Warm-Ups
Language Warm-Ups use receptive and productive language tasks including “repeat-after-me” activities, minimal pairs, phoneme identification, numbers pronunciation, rhythm drills, and intonation exercises using tools such as mirrors and phonics...
