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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

Edsurge

Just last week, for instance, fans of the approach held a workshop and sessions teaching HyFlex practices at the Educause conference in Chicago, and a group called the HyFlex Collaborative held a national conference on HyFlex teaching over the summer. Will their efforts succeed?

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Most Professors Think They're Above-Average Teachers. And That’s a Problem.

Edsurge

Summer is traditionally a time for professors to refresh their courses, or take workshops to learn new teaching techniques. On my department’s five-point rating scale, receiving anything less than a five from a colleague is a rarity,” Price wrote in a 2006 article. The challenge is getting people to participate in those,” he says. “If

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

Globaloria had been incubated at the World Wide Workshop , a nonprofit incubator she founded, since 2006, and supported by roughly $8 million from grants, she shares. I can walk into any meeting now and talk about computer science as the new literacy, and people will nod their heads,” she shares.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

Finally, the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder has developed an entire workshop-based curriculum aimed at helping engineering students to develop their spatial skills. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver CO. Spatial Temporal White Paper.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

On the other hand, one-shot, “drive-by,” or fragmented, “spray-and-pray” workshops lasting 14 hours or less show no statistically significant effect on student learning ( Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, and Orphanos, 2009 ). educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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How CA Group Builds Strategic Partnerships that Support School Transformation

Edsurge

For the large scale systemic work, the company typically takes a cohort of schools through a variety of workshops to support redesign on a larger scale. She initially founded CA Group in 2006, then went on to serve as the Chief Operating Officer of Rocketship Education , and program officer at the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Counselors routinely invite parents to Spanish-language workshops on college applications and financing.

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