Meghan Welch is a PhD Fellow at Best Practices and has been with the team since 2011. Her areas of interest and study include child development, digital literacies, and issues of equitable access around participatory digital practices  Quite often, she …

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I always prided myself on my classroom and behavior management skills.  My students were generally well behaved; special area teachers (art, music, PE, etc) often told me my class was the best behaved of any that they taught.  Other teachers …

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My first class of students is never far from my mind.  I think about those five- and six-year-olds often with a sort of “Where are they now?” musing.  They began their student careers the same time that I began my …

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Interactive Alphabet ($2.99 on the iTunes store) is an engaging iOS app that helps build the literacy skills of your youngest learners. The music is pleasant to adult ears, not cringe inducing, and the graphics are just cute. Dancing robots, …

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Bencent Morton has been with Best Practices since August 2011, and as one of our Administrative Assistants, he has seen it all!  He love of traveling and meeting new people and his background in management, administration, and logistics, make him …

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