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Q&A: Using Student Data to Improve Equity and Learning Outcomes

EdTech Magazine

The district increased black student enrollment in AP classes by 600 percent back in 2006. While some K–12 districts in the nation are still experiencing low minority student enrollment in Advanced Placement classes, Westerville North High School is not among them.

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Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. In January 2006, I decided it was time to transition my portfolio/web site to a blog format.

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ISTE 2018: Where I?ll Be Presenting and Joining in the Learning #iste18

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been going most years since 2006 and while it overwhelms me, it is truly an awesome learning experience. ISTE Flipboard Magazine to follow. My schedule for the Edtech Event of the Year! From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. ISTE 2018 is here again. NotAtIste Google+ Community.

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A guide for how to select the best tech tools for your school

eSchool News

One educator even contributed excerpts of his how-to article from the February 2016 issue of Tech & Learning magazine.”. District personnel who are seasoned veterans of tech launches wrote the vast majority of this guide,” said Christopher Leonardo, the director of research and development for Boxlight.

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Awesome Virtual Online Field Trips

MSEDTechie

Connected Classrooms Map - This map shows all of the teachers and partners in connected classrooms including museums, classrooms, aquariums, magazines, etc. Helens changed in the three-year span between 2003 and 2006 with these 360-degree panoramas. (Many other Earth locations also available on arounder.com.)

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June 2 - Interview with Cal Newport on "Being a High School Superstar"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He''s currently a postdoctoral associate at MIT and is the author of How to Become a Straight-A Student (Broadway Books, 2006) and How to Win at College (Broadway Books, 2005). Cal Newport graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2004, and earned a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2009.

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Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education

The Hechinger Report

The Hartford study follows her 2006 Milwaukee study , published in Science magazine, which also found better results for children who won a lottery to attend a public Montessori school.

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