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How Creative Expression Can Help Kids With Autism

Nadine Ajaka

October 27, 2015 |

The Atlantic |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Reading, Pennsylvania

The therapists at the Autism Society of Berks County use art and creativity as a way to help kids with autism. Students participate in a class where their illustrations are animated. “The way to unlock any child's brain, autism or no autism, is through using creative expression of some form," says the therapist Maude Leroux.”

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A Peek Inside Three Cutting-Edge Schools

Nichole Dobo

October 06, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Increased technology in classrooms is popular among schools in the U.S. However, research suggests that its effect is sub-optimal due to low-quality software, implementation, and participants' digital skills.

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How an unconventional principal used blended learning to help turn around a struggling urban school

Jennifer D. Jordan

September 08, 2015 |

The Hechinger Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

Through effective leadership and blended traditional and online learning, a struggling school in Rhode Island improved student achievement, teacher satisfaction, technology upgrades, and parent involvement.

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Facing decline, Catholic schools form a charter-like network

Eliza Shapiro

July 20, 2015 |

Politico |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The private Catholic schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx experienced the plummeting of enrollment, funds lacking for upgrading facilities and technology, while still charging high tuition. Now these six Catholic schools comprise a charter school network and serve low-income children. The results of the new system have enabled teachers to devote more time to academics, students to become disciplined for character development, and technology has improved.

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Five Cheap Ways Tech Is Transforming Classrooms

Alex Madison

May 06, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Low budget schools across the U.S. are having students use their smartphones as learning tools inside and outside the classroom. At no extra cost they can incorporate technology into the curriculum through a myriad of applications, from homework reminder apps to free cloud document platforms like Google Docs.

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iPads < Teachers

Peg Tyre

April 06, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Well-trained teachers cannot be replaced solely by technology, as has been increasingly apparent at Carpe Diem schools, where students learn largely via computers enabled with educational software.

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How Pinterest Is Revolutionizing Your Child's Classroom

Kathryn Joyce

March 31, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Colorful volumes of books have aided teaching for centuries; however, the scope of engagement in the internet age demands newer methods for pedagogy. Pinterest, a social media-constructed visual bulletin board, has become a venue in which teachers share their pinned visual media, lesson plans, and charts with students and other teachers. The success of Teaching Pinterest expands pedagogy, reduces teacher alienation, enables collaboration with other teachers, and directs readers to other sites that offer teachers’ curriculum ideas for a cost.

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Reaching Math Students One by One

Tina Rosenberg

March 13, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Middle School 88 in Brooklyn is part of a broad evolution in teaching math, employing technology through a non-profit called School for One (Teach for One) to provide each student with a personalized lesson generated and monitored by computers to match their learning level.

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Demystifying the MOOC

Jeffrey Selingo

October 29, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Stanford, California

The creators of online classes hoped to provide quality education to the disadvantaged but have instead created an international supplement to classroom learning and tool for professional development.

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A Pennsylvania district takes on cyber charters

Sarah Garland

May 13, 2014 |

The Hechinger Report |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

The small rural school district of Quakertown in Bucks County has become a national model for how to use technology to transform the public school experience. The majority of students in the district take at least one class online and all ninth graders are given laptops they can take to college when they graduate.

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