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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. I began the interview and trainings process with 51Talk and was immediately enthusiastic about this new teaching adventure. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DR. STEVE ALBRECHT For the past 17 years, Dr. Steve Albrecht has made himself well-known to library training audiences around the country. I graduated from Marshall County High School in 1996 and Murray State University in 2003. My degree is in Library Science so I have never taught in the classroom. We have 2 sons, ages 15 and 11.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber. With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

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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. Oregon’s ESSA plan also personalizes teacher training itself.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

The number of all-important graduate school applications from abroad is down for the second year in a row, according to the Council of Graduate Schools, after increasing every year since 2003. The American Bar Association reports that law school enrollment was up incrementally this year , but that’s after falling 29 percent since 2010.

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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 million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program. To encourage them along, the state offered schools $50,000 grants to subsidize RISC training, Gendron recalled. That’s why I’m in Russia,” he said.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Parents can be taught to replace serious problem behavior with socially appropriate behavior, and medical personnel can be trained in desensitization techniques that make physical examinations and basic diagnosis possible. Intervention agents must not only provide parent training (i.e., This support takes many forms.

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