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

Edsurge

Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. At the time, he was part of PLATO Learning, a school instructional software vendor now known as Edmentum. PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

This is the audience that loves to make stuff, that feeds the Horizon Report. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We’ve done tons of projects together, from multiple Horizon reports to digital literacy briefings to webinars to presentations. As Kim Pearson quickly realized, This is a shock.

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The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next

Bryan Alexander

This is the audience that loves to make stuff, that feeds the Horizon Report. I’ve known and worked with the NMC people since around 2003. We’ve done tons of projects together, from multiple Horizon reports to digital literacy briefings to webinars to presentations. As Kim Pearson quickly realized, This is a shock.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Gentz reports that there has been confusion about deadlines, many of which are federal but some of which are state imposed. 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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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

In our own research with Challenge Success schools, we have found that, on average, after you count hours in school and hours in structured extracurricular activities such as sports, drama, or debate, as well as hours for commuting and paid work, middle school students report that on a typical weekday they have approximately 1.5

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Report on emotional & behavioral disorders in youth, 17(1), 13–18. Teaching and Teacher Education, 48,21-12, [link] Gage, N. A., & MacSuga-Gage, A. Salient Classroom Management Skills: Finding the Most Effective Skills to Increase Student Engagement and Decrease Disruptions. Qui, X., & Katz, Y. link] Curran, M. link] Emmer, E.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As well as teaching a graduate course at Columbia Teacher''s College in Educational Technology and directing the Technology and Innovation at The School, he is an author for Pearson''s Interactive Science Program (a K-8 Science series for 21st century schools). Next in the Festival Five family series came Night Time! Father Goose).Sea