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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

Eastern and Central time zones, since that worked well for our meetings, sales operations and customer support times for schools. We used Skype for our daily/weekly, 1-on-1 and group meetings. Video worked exceptionally well for us (even dating as far back as 2008) as our employees reported feeling more connected.

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Schools Say Highest Pressure from Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

EdNews Daily

No one who lived through the 2008 bank failures would say that other parts of the economy were unaffected by the cascade into recession. . Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision.

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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

The Hechinger Report

So a fundamental question is how can principals do everything they were doing before and at the same time just merely have time to observe and meet … with teachers?”. Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. “I She expected much more than ‘You’re going to meet state standards,’” he said.

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Desegregation is unraveling in this Texas town

The Hechinger Report

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. With Wilcox at the helm, the community approved — in a measure that passed in 2008 by fewer than 20 votes — a $266.9 million bond to finance a massive overhaul of the district’s schools.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

At last count, 14 states and the District of Columbia required districts to offer full-day kindergarten, up from 10 states in 2008. As kindergarten has become more widely available in the last several decades, it’s also become more academic. It’s our job to meet every single child wherever they are.”.