Teacher Update: Teaching Secrets: Get to Know Students Through Seating Challenges

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	Top Story Teacher Leaders Network Teaching Secrets: Get to Know Students Through Seating Challenges Sandy Merz writes that engaging his students in seat-selection activities sets a positive collaborative tone from the first day of school and helps him learn how each class will function. Advertisement Make the most of your kids' natural curiosity. A Place for Wonder offers primary teachers a series of classroom-tested lessons and centers that encourage students to ask questions, explore, and discover as they develop as readers and writers—especially in nonfiction. Click here for details! Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable Is the Traditional School Schedule Outmoded? How might teachers' time be structured differently to achieve better results for students? Is the traditional six-hour day / 180-day year still the most viable—or productive—student schedule? Our teacher-panelists weigh in. MORE HEADLINES Despite Mass Layoffs, Board Hires 50 From Teach For America The announcement of teacher hires came just a week after the Clark County School Board in Las Vegas sent pink slips to 419 teachers to close a $64 million budget gap. (Education Week) Learning the Language ELLs Are Focus in Teacher-Led Project on Common Core A select group of teachers in Albuquerque, N.M., are developing specific lessons for teaching the new, more-rigorous common core standards in English/language arts to English-language learners. N.Y. Legislature Passes Teacher Eval. Disclosure Bill Teacher evaluations will be kept secret from most taxpayers after state lawmakers passed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bill , giving a major victory to teachers unions. (Associated Press) Teacher Beat Illinois Preserves Teacher-Test Cutoff Score The Illinois state board of education last week held fast to a rigorous cutoff score on its basic-skills test for teacher-candidates, which they are required to pass before enrolling in a teacher-preparation program. Students Tackle Video-Game Design As more schools integrate digital games into learning, programs are evolving to turn students into video-game designers. (Digital Directions) Imaginations More Active Despite Less Play Time, Study Shows Researchers say children's play is becoming more creative—even as the time to do it shrinks. (Education Week) Commentary Online Call for High School Graduation Addresses If you've heard—or delivered—a powerful high school graduation address this year, send the text to Education Week Commentary via email. Please put "Graduation Speech" in the subject line. TEACHING NOW Education Week Teacher's editorial blog, Teaching Now, provides the latest news, ideas, and resources for teacher leaders. Comments welcome. • Novel Teacher-Retention Idea: Let Them Leave (for a While, Anyway) • Keep It Real: A Student Perspective on Homework • The Final Grade on 'To Pass or Not To Pass' • Resource Watch: 'Pinteresting' Idea for Teachers • Should Blogging Have a Larger Role in the Curriculum? • Frog Dissection Goes Virtual • When Poor Grammar Goes to Work • Modeling Lessons on March Madness TEACHER BLOGS Charting My Own Course How Many PB & J Sandwiches Does it Take to Pay For College? After chaperoning her 7th grade students on a college tour, Marilyn Rhames reflects on the student loan debts that many people grapple with in their adult lives. Living in Dialogue Gerald Coles: Why Bother Educating the Poor? "Without social activism that will confront and change the economic system that has generated one educational reform charade after another, continued generations of poor children will be doomed to wretched adulthood," says guest blogger Gerald Coles. Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo First Year Highlights: Helping Our Students Become Better Readers Larry Ferlazzo brings together all his posts from the past year related to engaging students in reading. Leading From the Classroom Access the Real World to Inspire Career Awareness and Readiness Patrick Ledesma shares what he learned while visiting a technology firm and how their services are tied to student learning. Learning Forward's PD Watch Design Learning That Drives Satisfaction We must keep autonomy, mastery, and purpose in mind when developing new professional learning systems, say LF's Jacqueline Kennedy. Upcoming Webinars Revealing How Education Leaders Can Work Together on Common-Standards Implementation Wednesday, July 11, 2 to 3 p.m. ET Sponsored by Success for All Foundation Underwriting for this webinar is made possible by a grant from The Wallace Foundation Even as districts prepare to train teachers for the common standards, less has been done to prepare principals, who have a pivotal role to play in turning the standards into good curriculum. That is rapidly changing. Join our guests to learn what resources are available to guide principals and district leaders as they embrace this important role. Click here to register for this free live event. Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness Thursday, July 12, 2 to 3 p.m. ET Content Provided by The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University The new emphasis on teacher effectiveness is changing the K-12 education landscape. 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