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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

Edsurge

Through my experiences as a classroom teacher and a youth organizer, I know students who lost family members during the pandemic, students who struggled with food insecurity and students whose anxiety and depression spiraled during the fear and isolation of the pandemic’s onset.

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Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron Appointed to the Association of Test Publishers’ CEO Council

eSchool News

Representing leading publishers and assessment service providers in the testing industry, the ATP promotes high-quality programs among members—as well as among the entire assessment community—through highly regarded global events, advocacy work, best practices guidance documents, and networking opportunities.

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Osmo From BYJU’s Names Peter Glovin Senior Vice President of Educational Sales

eSchool News

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”. million homes and 50,000 classrooms, respectively.

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Report: The 4 models of blended learning in action

eSchool News

A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. Students might rotate in the same physical classroom space, move to a computer lab, or independently switch activities based on personal learning goals.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Domenech has served as Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association since July 2008. Does everyone feel valued?

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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

The Hechinger Report

Instead, schools must support and address these issues in the classroom. When he entered first grade in 2008, after a half-day kindergarten program, his school district, in Eagle Point, Oregon, never even attempted a full-day schedule, Pearson said. The school wanted to start with the same hours of instruction he’d been receiving.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. The original OLI-Statistics course comes to mind here, as reported by Lovett ( 2008 ). But that’s no reason not to share it. Why Would Adopting OER Change Student Outcomes?

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