July 2017 Newsletter
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Districts offer loaner laptops to counter summer learning losses
More school districts across the country are making the decision to offer laptops to students over summer vacation in an attempt to lessen the impact of "summer slide" learning losses.
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Changing Who Gets to Make the WorldTwo videos provide a glimpse into the learning and personal growth opportunities of designing and building.
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July Lesson Plans
The Teacher's Corner has organized all of their July bulletin boards, lesson plans, activities, thematic units, and resources.
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Using Clickers? A Note of CautionA new study shows that the popular edtech devices can improve fact retention but hinder deeper understanding.
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Responsive CoursesVESi has 29 courses that are compatible on all devices, making it easy for you to recertify anytime, anywhere.
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Partner InstitutionsWe partner with over 100 regionally and nationally accredited institutions.
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Certification RequirementsWithin the United States, each state regulates the licensing and credentialing of teachers in their own state.
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Featured Courses
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Understanding AggressionThis course includes topics on violence, aggression in the classroom, youth gangs, aggression in sports and on television, how drugs and alcohol play a role in aggression and violence, and "hot spots" that tend to breed aggression and violence.
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Try DI!Try DI! is designed to provide you an opportunity to learn about an instructional framework, Differentiated Instruction (DI), aimed at creating supportive learning environments for diverse learning populations.
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Early Childhood: Typical & Atypical DevelopmentThis course explores contemporary best practice and perspectives on early childhood development. Content includes patterns and sequences of typical development for children from birth to six years.
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Virtual Education Software, inc. (VESi) designs and offers high-quality, graduate-level distance learning courses (as well as CEUs, PDUs, PLUs, clock hours, etc.) through more than 100 colleges and universities nationally. Several of these university partners offer VESi courses for academic credit in either matriculated or non-matriculated form.
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