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Looking Back & Remembering @Joe_Bower @DevenKBlack @BobSprankle

The Innovative Educator

He took over an out-of-date, disorganized library, with dusty old books and turned it into a modern, automated library created with a mission to support student learning in ways aligned to their interests, strengths, and talents. I hadn’t heard much from Deven after 2014. In 2013 I sat next to Deven in Washington D.C.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. TI-NSpire CAS BLENDING THROUGH COLLABORATION PATCH has a lending library of tech awaiting learners’ eager hands. Desmos graphing calculator ? OverDrive ? PicCollage ?

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

The Hechinger Report

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - National Library Week. National Library Week is this week, and the theme is "Lives change @ your library®." Audrey is coming this year!) We are, of course, big fans!

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Learning Revolution Free Events - The Conference - Next Up #Reinvent14 - Appreciative Inquiry and AERO

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Partner Announcements Amazing People Institute : Amazing People Library launch a digital story collection unlike any other.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To OAKLAND, Calif.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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