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Many digital resources are available on the Common Sense website. You can browse a variety of teaching resources and current issues for your personal interest. Resources include informational videos and activities, and it’s possible to sign up for weekly updates. These examples touch on subjects that interest many of your students, such as online tracking, sacrificing privacy for safety’s sake, top tech for ELA, putting a new spin on students’ group work or collaboration, and virtual parent-teacher interviews:

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Since introspection is a good professional practice for every teacher, the questions raised by the author could be extremely helpful while the options presented could be useful. In addition, this article will serve to kick off our discussion on Friday. We need to adopt a common practice for whether or not to accept Term One assignments after the Term One report card, especially since we need to focus on measuring learning. Find the article here:  

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Jigsaw Learning isn’t the only organization calling on continuity, seeing support for students not as a lineal “point A to point B” trajectory, but more circular, as a continuous cycle: The National Council for Special Education in Ireland illustrates it a bit differently than what we saw on our last PD day, but the different language could help us understand more. Check it out here: