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Announcing the 2015 Cohort of the League of Innovative Schools

Digital Promise

We are fortunate to have an up-close look at how public school districts are answering these questions, through our League of Innovative Schools. The League is a coalition of forward-thinking school districts and their leaders that represent an invaluable trove of insights, ideas, and experiences for how to transform teaching and learning.

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Recognition for MCs: Symposium on the Currency of Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The evening ended with an inspiring conversation on teacher engagement between Hashim Pipkin of Digital Promise and Aneka Stewart, literacy specialist at KIPP DC. Four of the groups proposed developing toolkits to support states or districts as they seek to implement a specific type of recognition.

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Answering the President’s Call for #CSforAll

Digital Promise

In response to the President’s call for commitments to computer science education for all , 37 school district across the country — from Vermont to Alaska — ­have committed to offering high­ quality computer science (CS) and computational thinking curriculum to over one million students. Coordinating with the private sector.

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Putting Students First Drives Master Schedules

edWeb.net

School districts need to come up with a new way of scheduling by creating a scheduling strategy, being intentional about putting students at the center, adapting as needs change, and building team capacity to be able to tackle master scheduling in a strategic way. The edWeb webinar referenced above was sponsored by Abl.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Department of Education is looking for nonprofit organizations to help support its #GoOpen campaign to nurture state and district take-up of ‘open’ educational resources ,” says EdWeek’s Market Brief. ” The chain: KIPP. Here’s Edsurge’s take on the AEI event. “The U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Washington Post : “Many KIPP charter school alumni face financial hurdles in college, survey shows.” ” Via WLTX : “About 1,300 current and former employees were affected by the data breach at Lexington School District Two according to the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs.”

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Why Education Power Trumps Voice

Edsurge

started by making a big statement from a thoughtful and smart 10th grader, Jahari Shelton, from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Schools and districts must train teachers in restorative justice practices. “We Here’s what we saw: Up With Kids This year’s event, held in Burlingame, Calif.,