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Summer Conference
Wrap-Up
Check out the Conference Daily to learn all about what educators were discussing at last week's conference in St. Louis.
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New Online Courses
ASCD now offers an entire array of courses on the Common Core. Find out what you need to know.
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Free Webinar
Looking for new web tools to engage your students? Come to Virtual Summer Camp!
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What Would a School Designed by Your Brain Look Like?
Neurologist and educator Judy Willis asks, "Have you ever imagined your ideal school?" What would be the perfect learning environment for you?
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Teach the Cloud
Teach the Cloud reviews free cloud-based applications and open-source software that is useful for educators.
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On the Road to the Common Core State Standards
So what does the hubbub about the Common Core State Standards mean for school administrators and teachers in the classroom? When will the standards (to which more than 40 states have signed on) take effect, and how? This issue will offer insight from educators who are well along in the process of making sense of and planning for the use of the Common Core State Standards.
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New Paradigms for Schooling
What needs to change in education to ensure that students in the 21st century are learning to the best of their abilities? Personalized learning, technology infusion and online learning, more challenging content, school-university collaboration, flexible scheduling, a global curriculum, greater cognitive demands on students, career education and internships—will these strategies prove more effective than what many schools are already doing?
In this issue of ASCD Express, educators and experts share their visions for new ways of schooling.
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Teaching Kids to Be Problem Solvers
 Through a unique partnership, traditionally underserved urban students are challenged to excel in a safe environment where they can identify and solve problems through project-based learning.
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Shifting the Paradigm:
Giving Up Old Mental Models
Authors Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick say it's time to move past archaic and reductionist modes of thinking about how we educate children and measure their learning.
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Preparing Students to Learn Without Us
We have the tools and resources to personalize learning, says Will Richardson, but schools aren't using them. Richardson says schools should be creating environments where students can deepen their learning by connecting the curriculum to their passions.
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Transform Teaching and Learning
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Changing Education Paradigms
 RSAnimates creates a stunning and witty visual depiction of a thought-provoking speech by education and creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson.
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Tech for Teachers:
Video Cameras Offer a New Picture of Student Learning
 Jason T. Bedell, an instructional technology consultant and library media specialist, extols the video camera as an instructional tool that engages both young children and the big kids.
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My Back Pages:
Instructional Technology: A Challenge to Curriculum Workers (1963)
Peter W.F. Witt, an education professor, ponders how the technological revolutions of televised instruction and language labs will affect teaching and learning.
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Total Paradigm Shift Needed to Save K–12 Education in the United States
 We must design schools based on the belief that children are unique individuals who develop at their own pace, asserts Nancy Self, a clinical associate professor at Texas A&M University.
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