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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Social Media This method for connecting with families continues to grow in popularity. 2011, March). 2011, June). The Effects of Comprehensive Parent Engagement on Student Learning Outcomes. These surveys encourage involvement by showing that you value your families’ opinions. Sources: Hong, S. Educational.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. 2011, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

These indicators have become so embedded in the minds of those judging our schools and work that we, like everyone else, worked hard to focus only on initiatives that would hopefully produce favorable outcomes in those areas. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) implemented in 2011. See what CBS New York had to say. So what''s stopping you?

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Pursuing Educational Equity in Selma: Part 2

edWeb.net

Similarly, Washington increased the school’s social media presence, so the district was controlling the narrative on multiple platforms. Dr. Williams was awarded the Marbury Technology Innovation Award by the Alabama State Department of Education in 2011 as a principal and in 2019 as the superintendent. About the Host.

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Making Choices for Our Children

The Principal of Change

Everything happens for a reason, but every decision made, or not made, has an outcome. But at some point, I want to talk with her when she has a better understanding of social media and talk about what pictures she is comfortable with being shared, and which ones she is not.

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Helping teens find their purpose

The Hechinger Report

They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. Social media and technology are not agents of change. Social media and technology are not agents of change. A lively discussion soon erupts over the pluses and minuses of social media. They are just tools.

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“Leverage Worry and Fear”

The Principal of Change

It might not happen the way I thought it would, as fast as I wanted, or even be the exact outcome that I once planned for, but I will always learn and grow from the process and achieve success in some way. I would much rather try and fall on my face than to have given up because only one of those outcomes guarantees failure. (One