The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In this webinar, we will dive deep into the strategies that drive meaningful change in instructional approaches and student learning, and learn the hallmarks of top-notch professional development experiences that support educators along the path toward classroom innovation. The sponsor of today's episode. So how do schools iterate?

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Less than a third of high school juniors and seniors reported that they felt prepared to compare financial institutions and select one that best meets their needs (32 percent). To learn more about EVERFI’s Financial Literacy offerings, please visit the EVERFI website. To view the report, click here. About EVERFI, Inc.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Now, with the widespread cancellation of schools and conferences (where investors and entrepreneurs often meet), edtech investors are advising startups to heed Sequoia’s advice. Companies should be thinking about their cash runway, watching their burn and making sure they are comfortable with where they are at right now,” says Carolan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

When top professionals—educators, journalists, executives, politicians and the like—asked him questions, he typically answered with a story so that he would help you learn how to think, not what to think. Given the evidence that human brains are wired to learn through stories, his storytelling skill was a key asset as an educator.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

My name is Isaac Johnson-Tyas, I have been working in the education industry since 2008 in Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China. What is your job title and what exactly do you do for the company? Why do you think this position is critical to the success of the company? Isaac, please tell me about your official role at 51Talk.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

BetterLesson , a leading provider of high quality virtual and in-person K-12 professional learning, announces Matthew Kennard as its new CEO. In this role, Kennard will guide BetterLesson’s accelerating growth and focus on scaling the business’ operations to meet demand. To learn more about BetterLesson, visit BetterLesson.com.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. However, as our country continues to wage war on an invisible enemy known as COVID-19, colleges are being challenged to rethink their persistence and retention strategies, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A 2008 state audit found that parents were pleased with how much they learned with these home visits. SPICE was meeting all of their learners’ needs except one, rural isolation, and this drove their focus on using technology to strengthen their program. Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

These days, using multimedia tools is a foregone conclusion for the well-resourced teacher; technology is enabling greater interactivity and engagement between students as well as with the information they are required to learn. Teachers have a plethora of options when it comes to using technology in their lessons.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. What it really does is it takes looking at digital citizenship away from, “Be afraid of who might meet you online,” to “How much time am I spending online?”. They want it to be sticky.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. million jobs lost in the 2008 recession, 5.6

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

23-26): the companies who supply the tools, and the educators who use them; The Education Show (Jan. Many of the ministers hop on over to Davos’ annual meeting afterward. One teacher described The Education Show as “a ghost town for companies who can’t afford Bett.” (A 20-23): the people who run education politically; Bett (Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. I’ve got some experience with this from the past eight years.

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techlearning

MARCH 26, 2018

CDI Computer Dealers , a leading provider of technology to schools, is helping schools transition to the Chromebook ecosystem and is now meeting the Chromebook needs of more than 2,000 schools and districts. The company holds ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications, and processes more than one million I.T.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The companies get reliable employees and prospective hires while universities can promise students help with keeping their loan debt low. They learn a set of remarkable customer service skills,” said Randall. “In In my mind, they learn it better here than they would just listening to it in the classroom.”. Joseph University.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. I feel like they learn more,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. It’s crucial that school and district leaders address it.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But unlike most days, the editors held their meeting not in a conference room but on a stage before 55 teachers and librarians. The educators were there not for a sneak peek at the next day’s headlines, but to learn about the business of news—how it’s produced, and how decisions are made. Reverse Google image searches are handy.)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

economy began rebounding from the 2008 financial crisis, manufacturers started voicing concerns about finding enough highly-skilled workers. Additional funding came from community donors and companies themselves, like GE Power, which contributed $500,000. “We are fighting that perception,” he explains. Around 2010, when the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. Trying to keep students in school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. For many students it’s been a lonely year, and algebra is tougher to learn while peering at a screen, say teachers and researchers. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving. But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2018

According to Susan Wang, head of the ICS program at Mills, 86 percent of graduates from 2008 to 2017 went on to work in the tech industry. With Silicon Valley in the Oakland-based college’s backyard, Spertus says companies regularly make visits to the program to meet with students. That’s fantastic,” Spertus says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Southern New Hampshire University used to be unknown outside New England but it’s quickly grown since the 2008 recession to become a national online degree giant with more than 130,000 students. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2015

Paul will tell more about the district and about how Google’s education technology helps them to meet their goals and create a successful 1:1 program. Google Apps and Chromebooks have helped Jenks to change the way teachers teach and students learn. a cloud-based ERP company. The presentation will address these topics: .

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

In a diverse school district with more than 20 schools and 23,000 students, providing an equitable opportunity for every student to learn and grow is not an easy task. This edWeb broadcast was hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network, providing premier professional learning for educational leaders.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

” (Steger, Oishi & Kashdan 2008) quoted in The 5 Skills that Will Increase Your Happiness. . Protecting the love of learning is not a line item in the budget. Learning can be observed — sort of — but it is as hard to measure as how much I love my husband. .” Purpose gives meaning to your work.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2018

When a huge flood devastated Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2008 the community was faced with a host of problems more commonly seen in big cities, like homelessness. They also noticed that students spent a lot of time transitioning, and they talked only about grades, never about what they were learning. This is exactly what I want.”.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 29, 2013

Social media, the most social of all modern technologies, provided us with shared virtual spaces where we could ''meet''. How can we harness the power of these tribal characteristics in organisational learning? The tension between formal and informal learning sometimes can be reduced to such prosaic choices such as this.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Read on to learn more. How do I get started with meeting CIPA requirements? The E-rate program is funded through the federal Universal Service Fund and administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), under the umbrella of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). What is E-rate? What if I get audited?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Graduation rates for first-time, full-time students more than tripled from 2008 to 2016. During the decade between Nelson and Russell’s presidency, Jones says the college purchased a popular learning-management system, called Banner Plus, along with all of the bells and whistles that vendors like to tack on.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 20, 2021

It has been illegal for many decades for companies to use biases to discriminate against people during hiring, and how they are supervised or promoted. Now that we have emerged on the other side, how do we support learning in the post-pandemic library? We know that biases exist in our personal and professional lives.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. Thomas Lasley II, CEO of Learn to Earn Dayton. Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. MOBILE, Ala. The pitches worked.

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