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High school graduation rates for one important group are starting to get better

The Hechinger Report

But he learned Spanish and then English, staying after school for tutoring and moving on to honors and Advanced Placement classes. Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group.

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Teaching Students to Advocate at Their Own IEP Meetings

N2Y

For older elementary and middle school students, try asking some of these questions to help them learn to lead: Describe some of the challenges you face in school. As you work with your student on self-advocacy, speak openly about their disability and learning needs. What helps you be your best in class? How do you know?

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006.

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

techlearning

School leaders discuss their district approaches to Social Emotional Learning. One component of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires school leaders to measure students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) in order to gauge school success. She always begins her meetings with a mindfulness exercise.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about?

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Inside a neighboring greenhouse, a group of school staff and volunteers prepared to harvest herbs and vegetables for students to use in medicinal teas and recipes during science lessons on local ecology. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. You had to learn that experience yourself.” “I I stuck it on my bumper.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

edWeb.net

Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider. Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider.