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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

She has held several leadership positions with education companies, most recently Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Achieve 3000, Kaplan K12, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to this, they founded their own company called EdGenius.net, where they provided consulting services for organizations looking to improve teaching and learning practices.

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Don’t Rely on Cute Apps and Games to Teach Coding. Turn to Your Students Instead.

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So, having no idea where to begin a curriculum, they turn to so-called experts: companies that sell them products to meet new coding or STEM requirements. In 2002, I founded a summer coding camp, SummerTech, located on the campus of Purchase College, SUNY. And many former campers are now professional coders at top technology companies.

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Dave Eggers on Finding Creative Refuge From the ‘Lunacy’ of Technology

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That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. Nínive Calegari and I built it back in 2002 as a drop-in writing and tutoring center for kids in the neighborhood. There are companies that sell software that judge students’ writing.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. You go to Henrico County?