EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The NFL, Houston Texans, United Way of Greater Houston, United Way Worldwide and Verizon have announced the Houston launch of Character Playbook , a new education initiative focused on youth character development and building healthy relationships. The launch event at Pilgrim Academy today took students through the Character Playbook modules.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Our observations draw from an 18-month pilot during which we leveraged our social capital playbook to provide direct support to a group of three intermediary organizations—Education Strategy Group, Generation Schools Network, and Hawai‘i P-20—collectively supporting 20 sites in the K–12 career pathways space.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Founded in 2016, Motivating Systems is the parent company for PBIS Rewards, Workplace Rewards and TRiO Perks—helping organizations motivate people to do their best. Through Motivating Systems’ software-as-a-service platforms, organizations can utilize technology and reward systems to motivate people with positive reinforcement.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The rapidly evolving conditions for teaching and learning in response to COVID-19’s collision with other, simultaneous disasters—natural and man-made—disrupted and overturned everything we thought we knew about educating our students, maintaining a positive school climate and community, and supporting educators’ and students’ health and well-being.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2012

cell phones) have been successfully integrated as student response systems using free web 2.0 One thing we quickly realized is that our students owned and brought a diversity of devices to school including smartphones, iTouches, iPads, laptops, and other tablet devices (Kindles, Nooks, Playbooks, etc.). Mobile learning devices (i.e.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Most recently, as Discovery Education’s President of K-12 Education, Kinney led the organization’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The entire organization welcomes Scott to his new position and looks forward to supporting him as he continues Discovery Education’s growth trajectory.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Staying flexible, responsive and focused requires balance, but it’s achievable. Now, many of them are helping to write the playbook. Each audio snippet covering one of the partners from the NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools feels casual and engaging -- just as if we were chatting over coffee. Hear more from Colorado.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 30, 2017

In a recent webinar about OER, organized by one of the major textbook publishers, there was a lot of conversation about whether OER are “free” or “affordable.” And that is page one of the publisher playbook. Publishers simply have no response to the 5Rs. That is literally part of the definition of OER.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

The response has been, ‘Let’s take choice away from them.’ Like others who do this work, he said many students arrive at college having followed the resume-building playbook or been closely guided by hovering parents, and haven’t had much practice making decisions on their own. Some never finish. Is that really where your heart’s at?”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2017

For schools looking to implement video coaching, the new book “ Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning ,” which I authored, helps coaches and administrators make and implement a plan for how to best use video-powered professional learning with their teachers. Of what quality should video be?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 9, 2015

Conclusions: Food is obviously different from tobacco, and the food industry differs from tobacco companies in important ways, but there also are significant similarities in the actions that these industries have taken in response to concern that their products cause harm. government.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

Sorrell wasn’t interested in following the usual playbook for running a college, so he took unusual steps right from the start. My response was, "You know, I've recently become fascinated by community gardens myself." She was our staff member who was responsible for it, and I said, "You're going to run a farm." They were poor.

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The Jose Vilson

OCTOBER 4, 2015

The AFT’s Racial and Social Justice Conference, with its 600+ attendees, felt like a direct response to the question of whether any teachers union would respond to the consternation in our streets and our classrooms. These are the elements that the conference that came to light as social justice organizations came up to speak.

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Insight Education Group

JULY 11, 2017

Principals with site-based hiring responsibility make no decision of greater consequence than the educators selected to join the school’s faculty. Organization. the school’s own "playbook") for the key functional areas; collecting, analyzing, and using data effectively; and. Human Capital (or Competency).

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Graphite Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Although design thinking has been adopted widely by the tech industry, its approach can be applied by any organization that wants to adopt a way to solve problems empathetically and collaboratively. Have a look at this Virtual Crash Course Playbook provided by the d.School to help guide you through the cycle.

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It would almost seem that Duncan and his fellow corporate reformers are using the same Sputnik playbook to push their tired, worn-out educational reform agenda of more standards, more tests and lots of airy rhetoric. Learning is a mechanistic process, not an organic process.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

That changed when she enrolled at the University of Minnesota Rochester, a 10-year-old public university that has been closing achievement gaps by following a playbook that prioritizes student engagement. “I I didn’t even know that existed.”. I was finally able to express who I was,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

If it has not been successful, it is our responsibility as a legislative body to correct that.”. Already fearing that a compromise bill won’t pass this year, Hardy is looking west for a playbook to win the fight in Massachusetts eventually. Learning English, forgetting Spanish. Related: Bilingual battle brewing in California … again.

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Insight Education Group

JULY 11, 2017

Principals with site-based hiring responsibility make no decision of greater consequence than the educators selected to join the school’s faculty. Organization. the school’s own "playbook") for the key functional areas; collecting, analyzing, and using data effectively; and. Human Capital (or Competency).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This resource was co-authored by Code.org, CoSN, Digital Promise, European EdTech Alliance, and PACE with input and review from policymakers, school leaders, teachers and leading tech organizations. The cutting-edge ISS EDUlearn course was prepared for educators by educators, so it is practical, responsible, and student-focused.

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MindShift

AUGUST 28, 2015

The usual discipline methods weren’t working and Samuels knew that if he could figure out how to engage his toughest students, he’d have a playbook to reach them all. Students would come in, check their email and find a list of activities they were responsible for completing online. They didn’t have the regulation skills.

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Perry Hewitt

JANUARY 15, 2018

Loic Tallon, Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, makes a compelling case that digital is a horizontal function — a collective responsibility that transcends the work of any single, dedicated department. We live in an era of declining trust in all institutions, including higher education and the cultural sector.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2023

By highlighting examples from Lorain, Mississippi Gulf Coast, San Jacinto, Pima and Northern Virginia community colleges, Rachel Lipson, co-editor of the book, hopes it can function as a playbook for leaders across the country who want to better serve their communities. Many factors contribute to this.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

But fortunately, they had a playbook to pull from. The Office of Head Start is responsible for distributing the $250 million to existing Head Start programs across the country and will do so based on the number of children each serves. These challenges hit her staff hard.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The organization describes its ultimate goal as graduating more students who have fundamental knowledge and skills, collaborate well, think creatively and are motivated to keep learning throughout their lives. The response was enthusiastic, school leaders said. Policy Center, a research organization.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2020

Ideally, they will be granted sufficient time to organize their lives and reconfigure their classes before resuming teaching. Rather than whole-class meetings, organize periodic video meet-ups with smaller groups of students to chat, check-in and provide help, support and assistance. Leverage the Power of Community.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

So at the time that the kind of lightning struck, I guess, I was on the national strategy team of an organization called Teach for America. ” Because I think when you’re starting an organization and you haven’t done it before, the kind of scale and scope of things is hard to understand. Adam Geller: Sure.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

There are FFNs who function very similarly to licensed child care providers, says Natalie Renew, director of Home Grown, a national organization working to improve the quality of and access to home-based child care. Bright Futures is responsible for identifying the providers who will own and operate child care programs from the two homes.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

So at the time that the kind of lightning struck, I guess, I was on the national strategy team of an organization called Teach for America. ” Because I think when you’re starting an organization and you haven’t done it before, the kind of scale and scope of things is hard to understand. Adam Geller: Sure.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 15, 2018

iEARN : The non-profit made of our 30,000 schools and youth organizations offers more than 100 searchable interactive curriculum-based projects , in a variety of languages where students can safely collaborate, create, research, and share opinions, on their way toward becoming global citizens. curation, High Expectations Daily.

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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

Adam is the author of Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning, written with Annie Lewis O’Donnell. You can catch Adam’s original interview with me on episodes 279 and the follow-up on episode 387. What’s its purpose? Adam Geller: Yeah. ” Right?

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

We lead now without a playbook and find that past data models are not useful in planning for a future no one knows how to predict. We are all on a turbulent ride, with decisions to make for our organizations, for our families, for our communities. We toil to bring control to the university amidst the uncontrolled virus spread.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. They’ve tapped Boston Consulting Group to organize a pitchfest this summer where interested companies can apply. Nudge to event organizers: Time to move recognition of women to center stage, too!) The Innovators of Color award was front and center.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

In seeking to sustain and broaden the availability of comprehensive supports, communities may be surprised to learn that they already have many of the programs and resources for success – if only the various agencies responsible could be brought to a common table to agree on a coordinated plan of attack. Christopher T.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This comment, and the reluctance of some of my colleagues was surprising to me because our principal had gone to great lengths over many years to create inclusive policies and support for LGBTQIA+ students and staff, and our district designated “championing equity” a primary job responsibility of all employees.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How these black sportsmen and women form a team against racism offers tormented youth a playbook on how to deal with bullies. From Jackie Robinson to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, we have countless examples of athletes using the power of protest and organizing to teach the rest of us how to beat back racism, xenophobia and militarism.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The after-school sector can take a page out of the charter and school choice playbook and start strategically placing leaders in positions of power. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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