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Tag: curriculum


Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies

Pandemic shifts highlight importance of supporting differentiated learning options

May 6, 2020

Via: Education Dive

Curriculum designers must create lessons that support all students and address learning needs that differ among a school, classroom or community. That’s without a doubt a challenge: One child, for example, may be an auditory learner while another is more […]


Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies

Customized microcredential programs benefit rural schools with convenient PD options

January 24, 2020

Via: Education Dive

Microcredential PD programs are gaining popularity as more districts implement them for teachers to select, learn and demonstrate their strengths and skills. While not a substitute for more robust professional learning, these programs can be tailored to any aspect of […]


Education Tech, Educational Stages, Secondary Education

Report: Florida, Ohio called ‘advanced leaders’ in K-12 media literacy efforts

January 7, 2020

Via: Education Dive

As the U.S. enters another presidential election year, 14 states have “some media-literacy language on the books,” according to a new report detailing legislative efforts to integrate media literacy instruction into curriculum. But “action is too slow compared to the […]


Economics&Strategies, Education Strategies

Administrators embrace instructional leadership through teaching

January 6, 2020

Via: Education Dive

Instructional leadership is the idea that principals and administrators should shift away from their managerial roles toward leadership that focuses on building a community of learners, in turn sharing those managerial responsibilities with others. Principals should be visible and accessible, […]


Economics&Strategies, Education Economics, Educational Stages, Higher Education

Tackling grade inflation

July 6, 2018

Via: Education Dive

Grade inflation in higher education has become an issue in the U.S. over about the last 50 years. One 2017 report proposing solutions to the problem noted that despite the impression that college students have heavy work loads, researchers found […]


Education Tech, Educational Stages, Higher Education

Colleges should consider integrating bootcamps, not view them as threats

June 8, 2018

Via: Education Dive

Ten other universities are offering co-curricular skills development opportunities for their students through a pilot program with Coursera based on the Duke model, which one student leader said eliminates the “false dilemma that students face between taking classes you ‘want’ […]


Higher Education

The New Performing-Arts Curriculum

October 10, 2016

Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education

The fact that enrollments in traditional music, dance, and theater performance degrees have stagnated and job prospects have become dim is undisputed. It’s a simple supply-and-demand problem — with the steady decline of full-time performance-based arts careers, there already are […]


Education Strategies

Why The Art of Speaking Should Be Taught Alongside Math and Literacy

October 5, 2016

Via: MindShift

Classrooms in the U.S. often focus most attention on literacy and math, largely because those skills are considered foundational and are tested. However most people will also need to communicate their thoughts and ideas to other people through oral language, […]


Editorial, Education Strategies

Emotional Intelligence – has education forgotten about it again?

August 9, 2016

Via: Kelly Redmond

SEL, or Social Emotional Learning backs up over two decades of specific research and tries to implement organic, but pre-planned Emotional Intelligence training in schools. Such programs aim at improving the students’ Emotional Quota (EQ) rates, and at contributing to […]


Editorial, Education Strategies

Achieving excellence – is the secret (in) curriculum integration?

April 11, 2016

Via: Kelly Redmond

Any teacher is most likely aware that often students ask themselves “What good is absorbing all this information for?” when contemplating the year ahead of them. The curriculum debate is continuously on, in search of the perfect formula that would […]