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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

Before you know it, parent-teacher conferences are right around the corner. It’s easy to let the conference season catch us by surprise, but did you know that parent-teacher conferences are one of the best ways to boost parent engagement? Encouraging Parental Involvement Before Conference Season.

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An OpenEd Conference Update

Iterating Toward Openness

After two amazing keynotes at #OpenEd19 this morning, I read the following statement to conference attendees: In 2003 I invited a small group of about forty people interested in open content and open courseware to Logan, Utah. As of this Friday afternoon the conference will be adjourned indefinitely.

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Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

” The post Math Problems that Unlock Student Thinking appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. He created the #ObserveMe movement, wrote the book Open Middle Math is president of Grassroots Workshops and co-founder of the website [link].

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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. million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9 Microsoft research in 2014 reported that 23.8

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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

More than 340,000 students, educators and parents have “spoken” so far as part of this year’s Speak Up surveys about how they use – and how they would like to use – technology for learning. See a short video of the findings and the Speak Up 2014 Snapshots for Educators blog post. Since 2003, more than 3.7

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The Greatest Lesson I Learned As a New Teacher Was the Power of Saying "I'm Sorry"

Edsurge

I instantly recalled my interactions with his mother and connecting during parent-teacher conferences. Throughout my education journey, there were a few times I should have said those words, but at the moment, I didn't. I needed him to know the mature, experienced educator I have become and how much I wish I knew then what I know now.

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Parchment Merges with Credentials Solutions to Take On Transcripts and Certifications

Edsurge

The firm’s education holdings include Excelligence Learning, which builds and supplies physical products for early childhood education, and ClassWallet, a budgeting and payment processing platform for K-12 districts. Pittinsky also co-founded learning management services company Blackboard before co-founding Parchment in 2003.