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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Examples include release time, professional learning opportunities off-site, a premium parking spot, tickets to school events, books, and school supplies. 2004), "Making workplace fun more functional", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. Some schools have large-scale team-building events both on and off-site. & Ryan, R.

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Bluepoint Wind Awards $10,000 in Grants to New Jersey Teachers for Renewable Energy STEM Kits

eSchool News

KidWind will also provide the winners with training on how to incorporate the STEM kits into in-school and/or out-of-school learning environments. This initiative is a great step in ensuring that all students have access to the necessary tools to prepare them for future industries and careers in the state.” “As As the first U.S.

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2023 CODiE Awards Announced

eSchool News

SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. Over the years the awards have become recognized as the leading peer-recognized program in the business and Ed Tech industries. has spent his life learning and educating.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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Arts-based Teaching in Elementary Schools

EdNews Daily

Innovation is necessary to create new industries in the future. New industries, with their jobs, are the basis of our future economic well-being. In order to better ensure economic success for our nation, innovation is needed across various fields and industries. Creativity is an essential component of, and spurs innovation.

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Pluralsight, Vista Equity Partners Agree to $3.5 Billion Acquisition Deal

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The Utah-based company was founded in 2004 to compete against the likes of Lynda and other online education companies focused on serving technology and business professionals. The company, also based in Utah, is best known for its Canvas learning management system which is widely used by colleges and universities.

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