Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2021

As we enter 2021, and what our partners at the UN SDG Action Campaign are calling a “turning point for people and our planet,” we are excited to announce the launch of a new round of MY World 360°. Immersive Stories Inspiring People Everywhere to Take Action. For more information, see www.myworld360.org.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2021

As we attempt to innovate out of the pandemic and create some new opportunities for students, let’s see if this will be of help: 2 hours… up to 200 people… for $1,000 (USD). Online synchronous only. schools only (for now). Between the hours of 8:00am and 5:00pm Mountain time (currently GMT-6).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2019

Website Twitter The post 5 Authentic Ways to Encourage People Right Now appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. He teaches graduate-level leadership courses and other educational courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

André Sasser, a 9-year math teacher, tweeted something that has been viewed by 14 million people. The post 14 Million People Read Her Classroom Tweet About 1 Question She Asks Students appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Educators are frequently thinking about the future. They’re preparing young learners for a world that doesn’t yet exist, but will in five or 10 or 15 years. But how can anyone prepare for what’s coming in 40 years? How can that future be imagined?

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Waterford

JULY 9, 2020

When we think about modern-day heroes to teach in class, it’s often people who made a difference when they were well into their adult years. But young people can—and often do—make a serious impact on the world. If your students ever ask you, “Can young people change the world?” Malala Yousafzai. Jaylen Arnold.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A convergence of challenges amplified the spotlight on SEL, bringing with it a demand from educators for more guidance on how to advance SEL for millions of young people. This new cohort joins 83 leaders from the first two cohorts of SEL Fellows, who serve more than four million students collectively.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

And it’s complicated by common wisdom that advises young people that the path to dreams almost always passes through college—even though only some students make it there, and even fewer graduate. Yet it’s advice typically reserved for only some young people—and it may fail to resonate with them. That message may be true.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

That’s one question raised by the work of philosopher Waheed Hussain in his 2020 scholarly paper, “ Pitting People Against Each Other.” And it doesn't depend on any actions that other people take as well. Hussain's thought is that under that second kind of employment-based insurance system, people will turn into enemies.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 21, 2022

For more special education apps I recommend this list of the best apps for people with visual impairment. Clew Clew is a navigation app that uses the augmented reality technology to enable people with visual impairment to record, share and navigate their indoor environment.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2017

In the classroom, we must be mindful of what is most important – the quality of the learning and the interactions between people. Without people, the tech doesn’t matter when it comes to learning. Sometimes it doesn’t work the way we want, in some cases, it fails to load, and then there is the chance that the tool ceases to exist.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

Michael Furdyk from Taking IT Global talks about some global initiatives to help students understand indigenous peoples and develop empathy including Whose Land. Understanding Indigenous Peoples Through Edtech appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 29, 2013

As much as the social media tools were important to this process, they pale in comparison to the ultimate driving force of a connected model of learning – PEOPLE! I am indebted to the many PEOPLE I have connected with through social media that have made me a better leader and learner. In itself, it will never be a transformative tool.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And now is a great time to highlight some of the Hispanic people who have made history. To fight for the rights of people like his parents, Chavez organized a series of non-violent protests during the 1960s. Sylvia Rivera was a transgender woman who fought for the rights of LGBTQ+ people in the late 20th century. Cesar Chavez.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

He also blocked people from leaving the city and destroyed telegrams warning of the danger. In less than two minutes, the governor and thirty thousand people were dead. Despite what some people think, truth exists. We are “team blind,” a phenomenon seen all too often when people watch ballgames.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Ka’iulani’s musical experience provides an essential reminder that music and self-expression are powerful protectors of young people and their well-being. Over the last three years, the pandemic has had an outsized negative effect on young people, especially those vulnerable to the inequities in schools and society.

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 28, 2021

The post Google Meet: When Presenting See More People appeared first on Teacher Tech. .” Control Minus A common trick when using any program is to use Control Minus to zoom out. Oftentimes it is surprising how this works. In Google Drawings using Control Minus actually helps […].

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Sell Courses Online

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

People join online communities expecting to learn in a safe environment where they can feel seen, known, and accepted. … 7 Tips to Build an Online Learning Community People Love Read More →

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 8, 2019

The post 5 Authentic Ways to Encourage People Right Now [Best of Season 5] appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Who Will Be the People to Bridge Racial and Cultural Distrust? Dad hadn’t listened to the candidate before, and neither had many people from our area. ” Dad added a few more comments that showed he knew some people in Washington, DC and had spent some time there. Someone thought Dad was a poor dirt farmer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2020

Businesses of all sizes need people to fill these roles, which can be performed remotely during a pandemic. Yet, outside of Silicon Valley, few people—particularly those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds—know what these jobs are, or even what to search for online if they want to get into them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Such accusations are perpetual fallacies in a long narrative about Black people that claims we undeservedly get jobs, opportunities and admittance to the country’s most selective colleges and universities that “should” go to white people. This was by design. As a symbol of a well-working meritocracy, though, Harvard fails.

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Education Elements

APRIL 21, 2020

To avoid this pitfall, it’s important to have a strong facilitator that can bring people together to agree on a set of protocols and norms for any given meeting. It can be easy for virtual meetings to get very tactical since participants are wary of conversations that are too long and fail to stimulate them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Along the way, we found a huge appetite among our school families and communities to be directly engaged in the decision-making process; in both Burlington and Kentucky, they pushed hard to give far more people significant influence in shaping what we do. We aimed to reach across our divides to create real understanding.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

“I found my people!” This is like church!” “I I feel so energized!” “Can Can we do this in our district?” These are just a few of the exclamations we heard at our National Leadership Institutes in 2019.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

We all have those people and moments that help define our careers. I will be forever thankful to the many people that have supported me up to this point and have provided me priceless guidance over the years. Who are the people and what moments have defined you as an educator and/or leader? Talk about a game changing moment!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

For Wiese, it was all a big, expensive gamble — and, in one form or another, is one millions of people with criminal records take every year as they pursue education and workforce training on their way to jobs that require a license. That means some people are inadvertently steered toward training programs that, for them, are dead ends.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I am trying to focus on how I learn from others to grow myself while having empathy on why people feel the way they do. I shared this chart in “ Innovate Inside the Box ,” and it has helped me progress to a point where I focus on not being jealous of others but how I can learn from what they have done to better myself.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The AI Education Project , founded in 2019, hopes to teach young people about artificial intelligence and the way it will impact—and is already impacting—their lives and livelihoods. Also, Hispanic, American Indian or indigenous people, Black workers face on average an automation potential that’s well above their white and Asian counterparts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2020

Striking the wrong tone or prioritizing the wrong points in a message can compromise or slow down response efforts because it can de-motivate or confuse people being called upon to act. Dozens of people took time to share the ways in which their institutions’ leaders rose to the occasion. Effective messages always put people first.

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