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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Actively look for opportunities to provide feedback through diverse means such as phone calls, paper notes, technology, and face-to-face conversations. A study using a large email survey of managers found overwhelming support for having fun in the workplace. Some schools have large-scale team-building events both on and off-site.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

With the help of technology you can connect with families from the comfort of their homes. Family Surveys Send out an anonymous family survey at the beginning of the year and after each quarter or semester. These surveys encourage involvement by showing that you value your families’ opinions. 2004, November).

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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New Data from Rave Mobile Safety Shows Schools’ Top Safety Concerns About Returning to the Classroom

eSchool News

Rave Mobile Safety (Rave), the critical communication and collaboration platform customers count on when it matters most, today announced a new survey report that reveals the top safety concerns that school administrators, teachers and staff have about returning to the classroom, as well as the steps they are taking to create a safe environment.

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The Number of Students Taking in Online Courses Is Quickly Rising, But Perceptions Are Changing Slowly

Edsurge

The Babson Survey Research Group, an organization that tracks online enrollment, notes that between 2012 and 2016 the percent of online enrollment in universities increased 17.2 The last academic leader perception survey released by the Babson Research Group was in 2016. percent while overall enrollment decreased.

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Preventing the Math Summer Slide

Digital Promise

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. Reviews before and after vacation. American Education, 185-188. [2] 2] [link] (by Leah Shafer, June 24, 2016). [3] 3] Duffet, A.,

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

We explored campus technology and faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Casey noted some long-term persistent trends, such as campus IT seeing technology as an underutilized aid for instruction, and not feeling satisfied about institutional promotion of technology for faculty. Here is the full recording and my notes.

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