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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He'll provide safety tools and security techniques to empower library employees at every level, not frighten them. His fast and empowering workshops focus on library safety and security issues; patron behavioral problems; customer service tools; and facility security improvements. I have lived in Benton, KY my entire life.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Employing an entry planning approach to “hit the ground learning,” AlignK12 identifies the relationships, processes, and tools and creates the conditions necessary to optimize resources at the district level to improve student outcomes. Lisa was one of 100 Superintendents selected as #FutureReady by President Obama and Secretary Arne Duncan.

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Could a ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment) be right for your classroom?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

In 2003, Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler conducted an experiment at Best Buy headquarters , where they worked in human resources. Self-advocacy, union participation, and quiet quitting are some possible responses for teachers. As much as possible, teachers can make sure everyone has the same tools and resources to access learning.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. It also won a $200,000 contract from the state to create free standards-based tools for schools.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. But it wasn’t until the ASCA adopted a national model in 2003 that mental health gained an official role in school counseling duties. Kids talking to kids.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

Unlike the Department of Education or the Department of Defense, the VA has few tools to investigate the educational institutions into which it last year pumped $11 billion of taxpayer money. The problem is that veterans now only have blunt tools,” Muth said. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report.

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