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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Receive graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or for continuing education units that meet your state requirements. She got started with integrating technology in the classroom in 2003 and dabbled with app design in File Maker and HTML. Kelly has a Masters in Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology.

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Teaching from Home and Still Making a Difference: Meet Katharine from 51Talk

EdNews Daily

I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. Upon completion I was offered a job teaching English to business managers at an international company and worked there for a few months before being offered a job teaching children and young adults.

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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. What were two things that excited you about working with the company? Inkeri Martin is an English language instructor for 51Talk, an online English Language company in China and the Philippines.

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

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Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced. We send emails, we have meetings face to face,” he said. Staying hands off from an acquired company’s business is also a must, he added.

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Rethink Education, Southern New Hampshire University Launch $15M Edtech Seed Fund

Edsurge

Both SNHU and Rethink will take equity in the companies. The conversation leading to the partnership, according to SNHU President Paul LeBlanc, was raised during a university board meeting in October. The group has invested in 30 edtech companies since its launch in 2012, mostly through Series A and B rounds.

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Maximizing COVID Relief Funding and Its Effectiveness

edWeb.net

This approach can be especially important when afterschool and summer school programs are being integrated with classroom instruction during the regular school day, and when funds are being used to meet the unique needs of English learners and other students with special learning requirements. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Boxlight.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. And I had a really entrepreneurial colleague named Tom Daccord, and we started this company called EdTechTeacher that did consulting for schools that were making big technology purchases.

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