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The Headband Obsession With Student Concentration

January 27, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

Headbands created to collect information about student attending behavior are the latest trend. Adults monitor and gather information from students’ brains to see if they stay focused on schoolwork. Here’s the Vulcan Post that discusses Neeuro, from just one company jumping on the headband bandwagon. This falls into the social-emotional “good behavior” and “self-regulation” learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: class size, concentration, focus, headband monitoring, On-task behavior, Public School, School Privatization, SLANT, student concentration, Student Privacy, teachers, Technology

Teach Cursive Writing! Why It’s Important for Children Including Those with Dyslexia

January 13, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 25 Comments

Cursive writing is important for many reasons, and its loss in America’s classrooms should raise concerns. Cursive not only differs from print in the way it looks, it connects letters to words in a meaningful and productive way. It has been shown to assist children with reading difficulties like dyslexia. All students benefit by learning […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: attention, Common Core, Cursive Writing, diaries, dyslexia, focus, handwriting, Journals, Laptops, reading difficulties, spatial relationship, spelling, Technology, visual memory, visual perception, visual synthesis, Visual-motor coordination, writing

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cherkies Cheri Kiesecker @cherkies ·
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"The current national privacy bill in Congress (which might-in other respects-actually be good) won’t do anything for most students either, as it excludes public institutions such as public schools & vendors that handle student data" #privacy #surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/

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"I wonder why all the folks yelling about 'learning loss' haven't made a peep about the teaching & learning time lost every year to standardized testing & test prep." ~Dr Robinson @mrobmused .@nancyflanagan .@NancyEBailey1 https://www.mitchellrobinsonforstateschoolboard.org/

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deestem_teach all sunshine and rainbows @deestem_teach ·
8 Aug

I understand not wanting to, being able to, or feeling it is a burden to buy your children school supplies.

I get it. Don’t blame the teachers though. They don’t want you to have to buy them and they sure as hell shouldn’t have to buy them all either.

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As many unsupported professional teachers leave the classroom, who will replace them? #teachertwitter https://nancyebailey.com/2022/08/07/whos-teaching-americas-students/

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