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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. Being able to provide this experience to learners because of today’s technology is incredibly rewarding as a teacher.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today (Thursday, June 25) at 4:00 pm US-EDT, we present the eighth LIVE episode of the new LearningRevolution.com weekly interview series, REINVENTING SCHOOL. If you miss the LIVE show, we post the edited version here by Monday over the weekend.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

According to presenters of a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , as school leaders look to reopen their schools, they shouldn’t just be focused on logistics. About the Presenter. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Noguera, Ph.D.

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Webinar Tomorrow + Additional Speakers - "Responding to an Active Shooter in the Library"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

PRESENTED BY: Dr. Steve Albrecht, author, Library Security: Better Communications, Safer Facilities (ALA, 2015) DATE + TIME: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018, 4:00 pm US-EST (1-hour presentation + 30 minutes with special guests). I graduated from Marshall County High School in 1996 and Murray State University in 2003.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

A number of the speakers actually had wildfires raging nearby as they spoke, while the combined impact of the pandemic and related recession were also presenting urgent challenges to the well-being of local students and educators, as well as to parents and other community members. About the Presenters. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

Many of universities’ new graduate programs are online rather than in person, marketed and delivered to students by for-profit “online program management” middlemen such as 2U that take as much as 60 percent of the tuition off the top in commissions , as 2U disclosed in a presentation to investors. Thomas University Provost Jeremy Moreland.

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