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3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways. Teachers are stressing over so many things. She is the Founder CEO of Educator Alexander Consulting, LLC.

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OPINION: This cannot wait: We need concrete solutions to fight school shootings right now

The Hechinger Report

As a member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Recovery Network, I participated in a congressional roundtable on gun violence following October’s deadly massacre in Lewiston, Maine. The number of incidents has been rising dramatically since 2015.

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Blurring the lines between education and workforce

The Hechinger Report

One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three. While only a small number of schools currently offer the early-college program, Vargas said these schools are becoming a “substantial part of their high school system.”.

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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

Edsurge

The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities to better engage students and employees remotely. By 2015, technology had become an integral facet of learning , with devices ubiquitously present in students' hands.

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The 2015 CEA Ken Spencer Award goes to Inquiry Hub

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

The Canadian Education Association 's 2015 Ken Spencer Award has awarded Inquiry Hub Secondary School with first place. The 2015 Winners of the CEA Ken Spencer Awardfor Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Inquiry Hub Secondary School – School District No. FIRST PLACE. The Inquiry Hub (iHub). 43 (Coquitlam).

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A Timeline of Google Classroom’s March to Replace Learning Management Systems

Edsurge

While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes. In short, Classroom wants to be a lightweight learning management system.

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Parent Empowerment: Key to Changing Education Systems. Johns Hopkins University, 2015, School of Education. Sources : Parent Power in Education.

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