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National Network Launches to Connect Students in Crisis

eSchool News

With $250,000 from ECMC Foundation and a matching grant from Strada Education Network, the Emergency Coaching Network will provide up to 5,000 students at participating institutions with support from InsideTrack coaches specially trained to assess and support across a range of challenging situations. About ECMC Foundation.

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What Is Critical Digital Pedagogy, and Why Does Higher Ed Need It?

Edsurge

Jesse Stommel: Critical pedagogy has been my background since when I first started my graduate program at the University of Colorado Boulder, back in 2001-2002. We have a conversation in class, and then we have a Twitter chat, and then we have a conversation about what's possible in a Twitter chat versus what's possible in a classroom.

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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

MindShift

A 2001 survey conducted by the Department of Education found almost 50 percent of students age 14 and older with mental illness withdraw from school, and a recent study, published in the journal BMC Public Health discovered males with psychological disorders are five times more likely to quit attending school. and “Are you in danger?”.

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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

TeachThought - Learn better.

Though some of these traits have been noted by various researchers [for example, Marzano, Pickering & Pollock (2001) identify some of #3, #5, #1 and #4 in describing feedback as corrective, timely, specific to a criterion ], it is only when we clearly distinguish the two meanings of “corrective” (i.e. 3] See Bransford et al (2001), pp.

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How Tech Tools Helped a Part-Time Tutor Become a Full-Time Entrepreneur

Edsurge

Passionate about education but unsure if a traditional teaching path was for him, the Brooklyn native was uncertain of his next step after graduating with an English degree from Wesleyan University in 2001. At his sister’s urging, he launched a tutoring business as a way of testing the education waters.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Immediately, we can start to help new teachers and help each other in the process. A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. 33) Bartell, C. M., & Ingersoll, R.

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She Hired Me! Betty Shiver, the woman who convinced me to become a teacher

The CoolCatTeacher

Betty Shiver on episode 194 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She has been teaching at Westwood Schools in Camilla, Georgia since 1980 and served as interim headmaster from 2001-2002.

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