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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family Trainings or Workshops Even those who want to be involved in their child’s academics might not know where to start. As an educator, you can facilitate family trainings or workshops, like those offered by Waterford Family Academy. Topics should include relationship building, advocacy, and culturally relevant strategies.

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Using Virtual Reality for Social and Emotional Learning

EdTechTeacher

A few weeks ago I attended one of Greg Kulowiec’s Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (ARVR) workshops in the Boston area. Some of the participants even became involved in advocacy for the homeless as a result of their experience. — Join Greg at an upcoming ARVR workshop and learn about all our EdTechTeacher events at [link].

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

Edsurge

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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Why Schools Can’t Talk About Family Engagement Without Talking About Race

Edsurge

For years, the parent advocacy group worked tirelessly to influence education policy and practices in Oakland. Young had already built considerable credibility with the district through earlier advocacy work and a city-wide literacy campaign conducted by the parent-powered organization.

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Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Census Could Impact Adult Education

Digital Promise

You can share this video and provide information about participation in the 2020 Census by hosting events or workshops, reminding communities to avoid fraudulent or scam forms and sharing that the information provided to the Census Bureau is confidential.

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If we don’t engage online, we cede mindshare to others who will

Dangerously Irrelevant

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Here’s my second one, which came out today. ].

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COLUMN: The FAFSA fiasco could roll back years of progress. It must be fixed immediately

The Hechinger Report

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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