21. The MUST SEE "In Case You Missed It" Summer Reading List
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... to Rigorous Literacy Instruction - Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student Additional recommendations: - What Great Teachers Do Differently: Seventeen ...

22. A Peek Ahead: The Top 5 EdTech Trends for 2016
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... allows students to bring their creativity to life, along with teaching valuable design and computing skills. Due to the success of these programs, 3D printing and the maker movement that accompanies it ...

23. Winter PD: Learn One New Thing Over Break
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... Check out these online resources: At the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity site, you’ll find a great collection of resources for educators and parents (recommended by Crystal ...

24. Reform Matters: June 3rd, 2015
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... education only dream about. Charter schools allow teachers the freedom to teach using their ingenuity, creativity and energy to focus on content rather than preparing for standardized tests. It's ...

25. Three Ways to use Badges to Motivate your Students
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... Perhaps you want to reward incremental progress that tests and quizzes simply can’t capture. Badges let you reward things such as helpfulness, creativity and effort.     #3 Leverage students’ desire ...

26. Black Friday: 10 Best Classroom Games & Toys
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... sentence structure.  It encourages both word play in meaning and creativity.  It will spark and deepen an interest in language and help students discover new ways to express themselves.   Fractiles ...

27. Tips to Enhance Professionalism
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... feel stifled. Creativity is the life blood of a teacher. Finding new and innovative ways to capture students’ attention and stimulate their interest is the challenge that many teachers thrive off of. Look ...

28. Makerspaces in Schools
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... that allows both creativity and advanced STEM understanding to flourish at the same time.  Having an in-school makerspace not only gives students an opportunity to experiment with robotics and 3D printing, ...

29. AAE Executive Director Gary Beckner Responds to WalletHub’s 2014 Best and Worst States for Teachers List
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... allows for professional growth and creativity. Educators deserve to be rewarded for taking on new and exciting roles.” Are unions beneficial to teachers? What about to students? “As the ...

30. Spring Reading: The Top Five Books on Technology in the Classroom
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... creativity and true human interactivity back to learning. * Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.   Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World By Tom Vander ...

31. Inspiration for the New Year: Picks from our PD Calendar
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... use Google tools to orchestrate some quick, easy and cool collaborative activities for your students that require creativity and higher-level thinking. Bring your laptop, cell phone or tablet so you can ...

32. American Students Underperforming on International Tests
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... corroborated by other similar studies, critics mandate that a focus on standardized tests came at the expense of creativity. Others maintain that a baseline is imperative in improving overall performance ...

33. Musical Training and Brain Development
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... corroborates the idea that music training produces many positive results in students. For starters, music programs prove to strengthen the parts of the brain associated with creativity, memory, ...

34. The Wrong Way to Implement the Common Core
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... or teacher creativity • Teaching only the standards • Relying too heavily on technology • Confusing complexity with difficulty, and • Focusing on curriculum more than instructional practice  The article ...

35. Member Mention: BJ McChesney Teaches Science with Nonfiction Thanks to AAEF Grant
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... process? Ms. McChesney says that her students loved the books that they read, and that she “was amazed at the information, creativity, and knowledge that [her] students presented.”   We congratulate ...

36. Gary Beckner Op-Ed on the Importance of School Choice
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... for the next generation of educators —flexibility, autonomy, creativity, and personal accountability. School choice will advance the profession in ways we could only dream of just a generation ago. Thousands ...

37. Longer School Year: Helpful or Harmful?
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... push for increased school hours, not everyone is sold on the idea. Many parents think their children need the time off school to be active, grow, and exercise their creativity. Others argue that without ...

38. Five Facts about ELA Common Core Standards
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... the same amount of creativity that they did before.    ...

39. Upcoming Professional Development for December & January
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... December 20, 2012 at 7p.m. ET. ISTE: iLearn, Leaning Snapshots from an Elementary iPad Program. Come learn how you can use the iPad for student productivity, creativity, and multimedia. We will discuss ...

40. This November Celebrate NaNoWriMo!
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... to them over other aspects of writing, many students are able to find pockets of creativity and depth that they didn’t even know they had.   Students also get to experience being part of a larger community ...