Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

In Montana, the Custer Battlefield National Monument became the Little Bighorn National Monument in 1991, and a memorial for the Indians who fought Custer opened in 2003. At the Alamo , where the garrison died fighting Mexico, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas began to celebrate both sides of the battle in 1994.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). Organizational Science (2003) 14 (3), 283-296. 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001). References Akgun, A., Lynn, G., & Byrne, J. Human Relations, 56 (7), 839-868. Willmott, H.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

This past week in Philadelphia I participated in a meeting that launched the year-long process of refreshing ISTE’s Standards for Students. The 2007 standards described a landscape in which we were using technology to learn. I wrote about my objections to all technology standards in the following articles: [link] (2007).

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Prompting for Expectations: Including pre-corrections, which guide students to meet expectations Prompting for expectations involves proactive reminders and guidance to help students meet the expected behavior or academic goals. The Journal of Special Education , 41(4), 209–222. link] Curran, M. Theory Into Practice, 42(4), 334–340.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 6, 2012

As discussed in previous chapters, knowledge creation in distributed groups are situated in the work patterns and power structures within which distributed groups work (Contu & Willmott, 2003; Foss & Pedersen, 2002; Goodwin, 1994; Laufer et al., weekly meetings or interaction via the internet), and choice of discourse community (e.g.,

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Groups Knowledge Base Accessibility Study 61

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 In 2007, Maine’s then-commissioner, Susan Gendron, invited DeLorenzo to speak at a summer conference for superintendents in Bar Harbor. million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program.

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Connecting 2 the World

MAY 26, 2011

Relating this to Skitka’s (2003) AIM model of Social Identify Theory (as discussed in Chapter 2), a greater level of ownership may create higher stakes for the individual within a group. 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001; Skitka, 2003; Whitworth et al., Using social identity theory (McGrath et al., 2001; McGrath et al.,

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Provided the right resources, a low SES school can meet or even exceed the learning rates of their wealthier counterparts. Journal of Literacy Research, December 2003, 35(4), pp. The High School Journal, 2007, 91(1), pp. A student’s potential is so much more than their background or their school’s budget. Reardon, S.F.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Today, Head Start is nearing the end of a decade of big reforms, meant to improve quality and get closer to meeting the goals laid out for it in Johnson’s announcement of this new front in his War on Poverty. Bush signed the bipartisan Head Start Act of 2007, setting in motion the current efforts at improvement. Photo: Paul J.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., This concept is crucial as it delineates UDL’s focus on inclusivity and accessibility, ensuring that education is tailored to meet the diverse needs of all learners, rather than adopting a ‘one size fits all’ approach. As Evans et al. link] Rose, D. McGuire, J.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In Hawaii, where an extraordinarily high cost of living meets an extraordinarily low child care supply , parents don’t always report all the red flags they see at a center for fear it’ll close down and they’ll have nowhere to take their kids, King said. And now a decade later, some still haven’t.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. Neither the principals nor the school board followed through, and district officials refused to meet with a group of black parents requesting a timeline for school integration. Justice volunteered to talk about the school’s troubles at a school board meeting.

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Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 140

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

What other world leaders is Angela Merkel meeting with? 7) World Leader Twitter assignment —Choose to portray one of 200 world leaders during the semester and tweet at least twice a day about what that leader is doing, thinking, feeling, where he or she is, and with whom he or she is meeting. And it’s not silly stuff.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Betsy DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince, is the founder of the private military company Blackwater, infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. Despite the common invocation of the Internet as a world-wide network, “net neutrality” is not recognized globally.

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