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Inform Your Teaching with Benchmark Assessments
To help your students grow and thrive, you start every school year by getting to know them. At Harris Education Solutions, we recognize that understanding where your students stand academically is more crucial…
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Staying Engaged Through the Last Day of School
Thoughts of summer vacation are filling your students’ heads (and probably yours too). To maximize instructional minutes, you may be thinking about end-of-the-year engagement strategies. While the basic tenets of engagement hold, the spring offers…
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Ideas for Maintaining Academic Integrity in High School with Distance Learning
Whether teaching face-to-face or remotely, upholding academic integrity in high school takes a consistent and multi-pronged approach. Polls show that more than 50 percent of high school students take unethical academic shortcuts…
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Six Ways to Develop Strong Work Habits with Young Remote Learners
Educators agree that virtual instruction is not optimal in any grade, but especially in the early years. Grades kindergarten through second grade lay the foundation for future academic success. Yet, as of early December 2020, 63% of US students in grades K-2 received some of their schooling virtually this school year. Their teachers are under…
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Applying Progressive Teaching Practices to the Post-Pandemic Era
The most important professional lessons often come at a price. If you are like most educators, this school year you shed tears of frustration and spent endless hours adapting your methods to…
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Help Students Succeed with Group Work (Even Virtually)
Chelsea remembers the moment when her group’s presentation tumbled off the cliff from being a mediocre summary and into the abyss of unsubstantiated gibberish. The poorly made slides were out of order,…
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How to Embrace the New Frontier of Engaging Students Virtually
You are a trailblazer. Engaging students and helping them thrive in a virtual environment opens unique education possibilities. Change is rarely comfortable, though. You have probably experienced several pitfalls of teaching remotely. Achieving…
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Ways to Improve Emotional Support for Teachers
Teachers act as a frontline support system for students’ emotional needs. COVID-19 intensifies the emotional needs of students, which intensifies emotional stress for teachers. Many district leaders are looking for ways to increase…
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Help Students Returning to the Classroom Navigate their Emotions
Ms. Conner guarded the door, which was ajar, so seven-year-old Mark would feel safe changing his rain-soaked clothes. As Ms. Conner discretely ensured Mark’s privacy, she pondered his destructive tendencies and realized that…
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Make the Most of Every Minute of Class
Covid-19 Puts a Strain on an Already Scarce Resource – Time Every instructional minute is precious. You have diverse learners needing to learn a lot of material in a short time. Hybrid…
