edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

She also recommends working with county and state officials to track what’s working in other districts, and she suggested keeping the district’s “external auditor on speed dial” to make sure that any new steps being taken are within the appropriate guidelines and deadlines, which also remain subject to change.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. We have access to a range of data points, but our understanding of what they measure, why they matter, and how they impact practice is shallow.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

There are also recommendations for how to set up ground rules. Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations (by Facing History): While this requires a login to download, it's a worthwhile, overarching resource for how to build a classroom culture focused on constructive discussion.

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MindShift

JANUARY 27, 2019

Reacting with the mind of a lion allows a person to say, “I’m angry right now,” and that little bit of metacognitive space between the person and the thought allows them to choose how to respond. Himelstein says building an authentic relationship is key to accessing the trust required to make mindfulness effective.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

COLLABORATE Space provides persistent space to store messages, documents, whiteboards, recordings, meeting minutes, or anything else exchanged on a specific topic or project during a call or meeting at anytime, and is accessible from any device, whether it be a mobile, desktop, or room appliance. announced the U.S.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 56

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Almost anyone can enroll at a community college in California, but each college has its own process to decide how to place students. A working group met in November to come up with guidelines for how California’s community colleges must revamp their approach to remedial education. The results have been promising.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But at some point, we have to figure out how to clean up this mess. Google’s motto , remember, is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. I get that.

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That helped advocates launch what would become a nearly decade-long campaign in Congress to weave better health and safety guidelines into CCDBG. It’s not the easily accessible, plain language vision that was laid out in CCDBG. “I New requirements passed into law with broad bipartisan support in 2014. Wow, I couldn’t find any of them.”

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System Meeting Data Report 81

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

And the eligibility guidelines are so tight that millions of families who could benefit from assistance get nothing. This is a major investment that the country should make in terms of supporting early childhood and access to child care.”. Related: We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Edwards is a fellow with Rise , a national nonprofit that builds student advocacy campaigns, through which she learned how to mobilize new, diverse voters. Around 1 in 12 people ages 18 through 29 don’t have stable internet access, per CIRCLE’s polling data; among Black people in that age group, the number is 1 in 8.

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