eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Sean underscores the report’s findings including the significant growth in the number of schools offering computer science courses, emphasizes the importance of foundational computer science education, and outlines the challenges, including the persistent gender gap in the field. Dig in to the whole report here.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

OTs are trained to be holistic, big-picture thinkers, enabling them to meet clients where they are and assist them in achieving their individual goals. While one client may want to pursue a skill like handwriting, another may be more interested in developing self-advocacy, decision-making, or goal setting skills.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Take an online course. Meet other teachers in person. Friendly and inclusive learning communities include: CSTA Chapter meetings. You could: Teach a unit or course. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Some favorites (all free!) Connect with other teachers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The program brings high school students to the campus for half a day, for a tour of the education school and to meet with officials. One of those classes is offered as a concurrent enrollment course with Utah Valley, so students can start earning college credit toward a teaching degree even in high school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Meet four of them below. The local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

About American Student Assistance® (ASA) American Student Assistance® (ASA) is a national nonprofit changing the way kids learn about careers and navigate a path to postsecondary education and career success.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

It is driven by choice, voice, and advocacy. I held monthly meetings with all members of school government across all grade levels giving them an open forum to provide improvement ideas. Advocacy, choice, and voice should occur in the classroom as well as the school setting. What would you add?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

They’ve made 12 modules, four syllabi for upper-level bachelor’s or master’s courses, and several handbooks for guiding faculty and creating internship programs. One of the initial steps was developing course materials for professors to use and adapt without having to start from scratch. They’re not stopping at resources, though.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I’m deeply grateful for the support and collegiality of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation over this time, including for allowing me to attend this year’s annual OER meeting. Much of the discussion at the meeting focused on the many compelling benefits of OER adoption and use, including but not limited to cost savings.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

And, of course, please buy the classrooms science kits! Student Advocacy If your preschoolers will be coming from under-served populations, they will benefit from learning self-advocacy (in fact, we all can). Screenless Coding Montessori is anti-screen for young children. However, these children need computer science.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As she made progress toward her major, chemistry, and needed fewer courses directly related to that degree, the state grant she relied on covered fewer of her credit hours, leaving her with thousands more dollars to pay. That meant she couldn’t sign up for courses for the upcoming semester. Of course I said yes.” She felt stuck.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

Steve Albrecht with " Coaching Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors: Getting Better Performance and Behavior From Your Employees One Meeting at a Time " on February 12th. Then, being announced today, is " Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques " with Dr. Sue Alman on February 21st.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. While she was out, two student workers ensured the recovery program room stayed open, emails went out and weekly meetings happened.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

Connecting secure datasets such as absenteeism and homework completion with formative mathematics assessments, for example, allows educators to consider why issues may be happening, decide on a course of supportive action, and then use data to determine effectiveness. Technology will help create equity in schools when it’s used powerfully.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I I think that’s a really important part of this: There really isn’t another system out there that’s meeting their needs. Or of course the pride. It’s school.”

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The Jose Vilson

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

So, of course, when I got a chance to speak to MacDonald directly, I said exactly this with the hope and she and others like her didn’t take it to mean that I didn’t appreciate their work. When they don’t receive these essentials, they too get nudged into either despair or advocacy. Which brings me back to the summit.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

When students saw the results of the work they had done, this affirmed how identity, advocacy and doing the work yields positive results. Of course, things will never be what they once were, but we are building a better school and community – more importantly, we are building leaders. If they would not come to us, then we came to them.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

She invited me to meet with Jason, who filled me in on his situation. Once education professionals realized that there was a difference between students who needed special education versus those who were not succeeding but did not meet eligibility criteria for special education services, there was a clear need for a better support structure.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

She’s studying public policy and sociology there, in addition to playing Ultimate Frisbee, starting a chapter of a student-advocacy organization and interning at the Georgia General Assembly for the 2022 legislative session. Alan is now a high school junior taking some college-level courses, including in UX Design.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

In addition to English-language learners and students with disabilities, children on the cusp of meeting the standard may also avoid being held back if they regularly attend summer school and show ‘adequate growth’ — a term that is not defined in the law. At least 19 of those require retention if a student doesn’t meet certain standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

For years, in many schools across the country, English learners have regularly been pulled out of mainstream academic courses in order to receive segregated, English-only language instruction away from their English-dominant peers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Danilo Moreta, a graduate student raised in Colombia, leads a Spanish language section of a plant science course, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Reisinger, who this spring will teach a French section of a new course, Global Advertising (there is also a section in Spanish).

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

It must be built into strategic plans year-long, designed into policies, meetings, and resources, and a mindset used in all interactions, decisions, and planning. For example, our accessible meeting standards already need an update to reflect our new learnings about color and contrast. Follow disabled creators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

For school counselors, what’s key is that school counselors have the ability to look at the demographics of a school, to look at where students are going in terms of course placement. In my classroom, we talk of course about Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, who was the world’s first programmer. So that’s really important. Angela: Right.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

The basic course teaches students productivity applications and critical-thinking skills that are needed in today’s work environment. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Even with Bennett on board, it can be hard to meet the needs of all the kids and teachers in this low-income, rural district — especially since the pandemic. There’s a lot of trauma, and there are only so many hours in a day to meet with kids,” Bennett said. The phone rings, interrupting the sharing. It’s green,” Tim responds.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. Pupils with special learning needs due to physical and/or mental impairments who require special assistance to meet with academic success. (Michael Fullan, 2002, p.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann. If you’re not familiar with educational research, 6x is a massive effect. .

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

And of course those teachers that 1) hardly do anything, 2) join those damned unions, and 3) have huge salaries and summers off. And of course we’ll cut science classes. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? We can do better! But let’s don’t stop there! Let’s cut Social Studies.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 12, 2022

Will your child appreciate your advocacy when they are overcoming handicaps, obstacles, or just throwing a fit and you hit their face with a slice of cheese? I’m a firm believer in advocacy, but what is the cost of sharing a child’s handicap, illness, or even wearing a helmet as an infant? Or will they be mortified?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

Those who are proficient can take regular classes, and choose their electives and sometimes enter advanced-placement courses. Though many of these students may retest each year, parents note that their children fall further and further behind as they remain in remedial courses.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s great news out of the recent UNESCO meeting in Paris, where member states unanimously adopted the draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). I want to highlight some of the parts of the Recommendation that caught my eye, reading both from a personal perspective as well as my Lumen perspective.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Others find it nearly impossible to fit courses around work and childcare. Part-time classmates who worked during the day, as she did, Dzindzichashvili said, constantly worried about whether courses would be available at night. Many, like Dzindzichashvili, interrupt their studies because of the cost.

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