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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

Before you know it, parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner. It’s easy to let the conference season catch us by surprise, but did you know that parent-teacher conferences are one of the best ways to boost parent engagement? Encouraging Parental Involvement Before Conference Season.

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Parchment Merges with Credentials Solutions to Take On Transcripts and Certifications

Edsurge

Pittinsky also co-founded learning management services company Blackboard before co-founding Parchment in 2003. In this video from the 2014 ASU-GSV education conference, Matthew Pittinsky explains the thinking behind his company Parchment. Parchment bought AVOW Systems in 2012 , and Credentials Solutions bought eScrip-Safe in 2014.

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Rethinking How Scholarship Works at MLA17

ProfHacker

Friday at the Modern Language Association conference, I’ll be presiding at a session entitled “ That’s Not How Scholarship Works! Each of these works of scholarly making represents a foray into an emerging digital edge — for instance, Web frames and forms in 1998 , digital video in 2003 , and modal interfaces in 2012.

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Register Now for the Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're getting close to our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) March 29th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Additional information will be sent with the final conference information after registration.

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What resources would you suggest for professional book studies on reading instruction?

Reading By Example

Conferring with Readers (Serravallo & Goldberg, Heinemann, 2017). Reading Essentials (Routman, Heinemann, 2003). Reading with Meaning (Debbie Miller, Heinemann, 2012). The Comprehension Experience (Hammond & Nessel, Heinemann, 2011). From Striving to Thriving (Harvey & Ward, Scholastic, 2017).

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Final Schedule - Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 29th, is our Library 2.017 mini-conference: "Expertise, Competencies and Careers," which will be held online (and for free) from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Additional information will be sent with the final conference information after registration.

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Undergrad majors: the humanities seriously down, STEM slowly rising

Bryan Alexander

from 2012 to 2014, falling to the smallest number of degrees conferred since 2003” That’s in absolute numbers. decline from 2012 levels.” English, the discipline that has consistently granted the most humanities degrees, conferred 8% fewer degrees in 2014. of all such degrees.

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