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Value-Added Schools

A Principal's Reflections

What I would like to discuss are ways that schools can provide increased value to students based on changes to the learning culture. A school can and should provide a meaningful learning experience for students. Kids should want to come to school and learn. Value-added schools: Focus more on learning as opposed to grades.

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David, Goliath, and the Future of the U.S. K-12 OER Movement

Doug Levin

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S.

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A Conversation With #EduColor's José Vilson About Inclusive Teaching

Edsurge

For perspective and advice, we recently talked with José Vilson, co-founder and executive director of #EduColor , a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to issues of race and social justice in education. I do my best to be judicious about that because I think there's power in technology in education.

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Of course, there are technical aspects to protecting data, and as many schools have learned during the pandemic, district IT staff need to stay on top of evolving efforts to compromise systems. Yes, discuss how to protect the data, but also explain the benefits of the data and how the schools use it to positively impact student learning.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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It’s a common story: the energetic principal who comes into a school, revamps the curriculum, creates innovative learning practices, and then leaves with no sustainability plan. Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Waterford Gets $20M+ Grant for Online Preschool. Its Critics Are Not Happy.

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Despite the momentum recently to expand early learning opportunities to children, there are still millions of people who face barriers to that access, specifically in rural and low-income areas,” she says. That’s where Upstart comes in.” Audacious declined to comment on the contents of the letter.)

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? It’s a crisis of knowledge and expertise and science. (It’s