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5 Essential Things Teachers Need to Know About UDL

The CoolCatTeacher

She wrote the best-selling book Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning ( [link] ) which was based on her work as the UDL Coordinator for Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Columbus, Indiana from 2007 – 2012. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” ”

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BEGiN Raises $50M From LEGO, Sesame and Gymboree to Scale Early Education Services

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That disconnect—between the importance of those early years, and the shortage of capital available for supporting programs—was part of what drove Neal Shenoy to launch BEGiN, an early-education media company, in 2012. To date, the New York-based company has raised $93 million. There is some research to support their popularity.

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Thinking Routines in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

And I did this routine for the very first time when I came back from Harvard’s Project Zero Classroom in 2012, and it’s an opportunity for the kids to really share what are they nervous about so that’s the N. And so, every year we conduct Project Zero workshops where we bring in teachers from all the surrounding areas.

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Longtime Edtech Investor Reach Capital Raises $165M for Third Fund

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Financial backers include Sesame Workshop, Kaiser Permanente, National Geographic and AIMS Imprint of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Reach, though, is sticking to its specialty, says Garvey: “We are still very much committed to supporting companies at the early stage, and we feel we can identify these winners early.” school districts.

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Edtech Incubators are Fading. Here’s What Will Replace Them.

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Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Many of the most eager entrepreneurs were first timers—often very young people with little experience in building companies or even in teaching—but driven by a passion for education.

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Can This Be the K-12 Edtech Marketplace That Finally Succeeds?

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In 2012, First Book , a nonprofit that provides affordable learning materials to kids in need, approached the publishers of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and asked: Can you make a bilingual version of the popular children’s book? Games and Learning traces its origin to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the research arm of the Sesame Workshop.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”.

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