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CFY becomes PowerMyLearning

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To better align our mission with our name, I am pleased to share with you that we have officially changed our name to PowerMyLearning. So, why PowerMyLearning? We chose this name for our organization because “PowerMyLearning” represents everything we do and everything we stand for. PowerMyLearning Greater Los Angeles Region.

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Free Family Engagement Tool For Impacted Schools and Districts

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PowerMyLearning, a national nonprofit, is committed to helping school and district leaders who are mobilizing to implement remote learning plans in response to COVID-19. PowerMyLearning Family Playlists® can help make that transition smoother. Family Playlists are easy to integrate with Google Classroom and Clever.

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3 ways families can support students’ learning at home

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This is a wonderful way for parents to reinforce what their child is learning in the classroom into their daily after-school routine. We partnered with nonprofit PowerMyLearning to bring this strategy to life through their Family Playlists innovation.

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Time Is the Greatest Challenge to Teaching STEM. Families Can Help.

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For 14 years, Julia Moak, a fifth grade science teacher in Miami, has switched on the lights in her classroom at the start of every school day. A generator then converts it into electrical energy, which rapidly moves through power lines and into her classroom, converting to light energy. An unnoticeable moment, you might think, but Ms.

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Want Students to Remember What They Learn? Have Them Teach It.

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D’Angelo witnessed in her classroom? I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships. But could it really explain what Ms.

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What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle

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Further evidence of this trend includes the hundreds of teachers supported by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching who are trying out classroom strategies to help students persist through difficult in-class assignments. And then there’s the approach we’ve taken at PowerMyLearning, the nonprofit I run in New York City.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

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The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools.