Building Academic and SocialEmotional Skills Through Play

August 19, 2020

The disruption to our children’s lives from COVID-19 has been significant and has also accelerated changes to education models that may outlast the pandemic. Some schools will open with 100 percent remote instruction. Some will begin on campus fulltime and pivot if necessary. Others will try a blended approach spanning in-class and remote. One thing we know for certain is that children, their families, and educators are facing a host of pressing challenges in every sphere of life.

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The Center for Education Reform

Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform aims to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all Americans — particularly our youth — ensuring that conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom and flexibility throughout U.S. education.

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Proven Instructional Models to Help Unique Learners Achieve

whitePaper | August 29, 2020

What are some strategies teachers use to engage students? And what teaching practices are the most effective in helping students reach their learning goals? This paper explores approaches that can help educators establish a positive framework for academic and social growth. Discover three research-based teaching practices that support teacher success and student achievement.

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The Future of Education Predictions report

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

The education landscape has always seen change, with each new generation of students and their varying yearly achievement prompting the need for constant reevaluation of schools’ approaches. Recent years, however, have seen seismic shifts, leading educators to question every aspect of their profession, likely more than at any other time in their careers.

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HOW TO ELEVATE YOUR CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE

whitePaper | January 4, 2023

Elevate K-12 is breaking zip code barriers and solving teacher shortages across the country by livestreaming certified teachers directly into classrooms during the school day and according to the school’s bell schedule. Students and teachers use Elevate’s proprietary portal that’s designed specifically for learning and fluid interaction in order to engage with one another and replicate the traditional classroom experience as closely as possible.

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ChatGPT and Assessment in Higher Education

whitePaper | March 30, 2023

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is an advanced large language model developed by OpenAI. This generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was trained on massive amounts of text data from the internet using machine learning algorithms. ChatGPT is capable of answering prompts and invites users to interact in a conversational way—it can even answer follow-up questions.

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Skyrocket Language Acquisition in the Classroom

whitePaper | October 27, 2022

Most researchers agree that “acquiring language within the language-specific areas of the brain diminishes during the middle years of adolescence”v making language learning more difficult as one gets older.

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Career-Connected PBL

whitePaper | December 7, 2022

Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional strategy in which students learn by actively engaging in large-scale projects that have realworld relevance. Numerous studies have shown that PBL can lead to deeper learning, higher levels of engagement, and better student outcomes when implemented skillfully. 1

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The Center for Education Reform

Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform aims to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all Americans — particularly our youth — ensuring that conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom and flexibility throughout U.S. education.

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