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Empowerment Through Choice

A Principal's Reflections

The underlying idea in this approach is that choice gives employees a sense of personal control, which can enhance their intrinsic motivation towards their work, resulting in higher morale, creativity and innovation, better performance, more significant organizational commitment, and lower turnover (Chua and Iyengar, 2006). Chua, Roy Y.J.,

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

eSchool News

Headquartered in Bellevue, WA, DreamBox Learning offers the only dual-discipline solution rated “Strong” by Johns Hopkins University’s evidenceforESSA.org in both mathematics and reading. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies.

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DreamBox Learning® Announces Record Expansion into New School Districts

eSchool News

September 15, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced new expansions and partnerships with school district customers, including Prince George’s County Public Schools and East Baton Rouge Parish School System. BELLEVUE, Wash.

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South Carolina Department of Education Selects DreamBox Learning® to Support COVID-19 Academic Recovery

eSchool News

DreamBox Learning ®, the K-8 digital math company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, announced today that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has selected DreamBox Learning Math to support teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate student learning loss.

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DreamBox Learning® Equips Educators with Lesson Recommendations to Accelerate Student Learning

eSchool News

New Lesson Recommendations feature helps teachers understand where students are in their math learning to support academic growth toward proficiency. DreamBox Learning Math is currently used by nearly 5 million students and 200,000 educators in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico. BELLEVUE, Wash.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. As such, teaching and learning are “always mediated or shaped by cultural influences, they can never be culturally neutral” (Gay, 2018, p. xii cited in Gay, p.

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Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free—and Be Financially Sustainable?

Edsurge

From 2006 to 2016, the cost of textbooks increased by 88 percent, more than than nearly any other college student expense—including tuition and fees (63 percent) or on-campus housing (51 percent)—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned.

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