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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

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 ). 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

million (Seed) 2016 TAL Education Wonder Workshop $20 million (B) 2016 Sinovation Ventures, WI Harper Group Source: EdSurge, Crunchbase Where Business Booms. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. Wonder Workshop , which develops robot toys that teach kids how to code.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Workshop and other in-service events are magnified by collaborative, shared-experiences. Pursuing a “sense of success”: New teachers explain their career decisions, American Educational Research Journal 40 (3) (2003), pp. New York: Free, 2003. <PDF> 2009- 05-25 from [link] Shippee, M. & & Birkeland, S.E.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The man’s bright red nose lights up, and a buzzer sounds. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. Mary Brintnall-Peterson recognized this while working as a program specialist on aging at the University of Wisconsin-Extension more than 15 years ago.

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

2003) ‘Creating strategic responses to critical risks facing accounting education’, Issues in Accounting Education, 18(4), 445-462. 2009) ‘Students’ evaluation of the use of online summative assessment on an undergraduate financial accounting module’, British Journal of Educational Technology , 40(2), 237-254.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter was launched in November 2009. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website.