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June 9, 2015

June 9th, 2015

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Delaware News Education Week Personalized learning: More teacher, less algorithm? Blog post by Benjamin Herold Last month, while reporting at Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Del. for Education Week's forthcoming Technology Counts 2015 report, to be released Wednesday, I came across an altogether different version of technology-enabled...

June 8, 2015

June 8th, 2015

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Delaware News Dover Post Delaware Teaching Center aiding educators As teachers in local school districts get ready to break for the summer, many will take advantage of classes offered by the Delaware Teaching Center. An estimated 800 teachers rely on the center’s resources during the school year for their lesson plans and to obtain necessary...

June 5, 2015

June 5th, 2015

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Delaware News Dover Post Delaware Teaching Center aiding educators As teachers in local school districts get ready to break for the summer, many will take advantage of classes offered by the Delaware Teaching Center. An estimated 800 teachers rely on the center’s resources during the school year for their lesson plans and to obtain necessary...

Your Brain is Like a Muscle: Teaching Growth Mindset in a Delaware Classroom

June 4th, 2015

Author: Rachel Wiggans Chan

I recently had the chance to sit in on Mt. Pleasant High School teacher (and Rodel Teacher Council member) Robyn Howton’s class. She presented a lesson on growth mindset to students in Mt. Pleasant’s AVID program. The lesson was developed by Khan Academy and Stanford University’s PERTS research center, with some tweaks by Robyn to suit her...