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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. As part of this special week, Project Tomorrow will be releasing preliminary findings from the 2014 surveys completed so far.

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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. Based in Scottsdale, Ariz.,

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Strategy, Serendipity, Sleepless Nights: 3 Edtech CEOs on ‘Great Exits’

Edsurge

Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. Brekhus’ story was just one shared from the main stage during the last day of the Software & Information Industry Association’s Ed Tech Industry Conference in San Francisco this week.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Motivation in Your Students

The CoolCatTeacher

You can even coordinate volunteer schedules, donations, and parent-teacher conferences. Kristy Cooper’s research Eliciting Engagement in the High School Classroom: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Teaching Practices from April 2014 American Education Research Journal. You can share pictures and links. Who is Larry Ferlazzo?

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The Science Behind Spatial-Temporal Math

MIND Research Institute

Games have the potential to be perceived as an enjoyable and fun activity and, with that, might provide a preferred means to teach math (Bragg, 2003). 2014, 2019). 2014, 2019). Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia , 160–167. and 0.35, respectively.

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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). Minds Made for Stories (Newkirk, Heinemann, 2014). Reading Essentials (Routman, Heinemann, 2003). Reading in the Wild (Donalyn Miller, Jossey-Bass, 2014). Reading in the Wild (Donalyn Miller, Jossey-Bass, 2014). Moses, Heinemann, 2017).

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Insight works with education leaders on Microsoft Server security

eSchool News

Public Sector team will speak to the risks of failing to address the pending end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Microsoft research in 2014 reported that 23.8 million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9