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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Date: January 31, 2018. I started this program in the summer of 2017. Stream by clicking here.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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Why Teacher Recruitment Needs to Change

Insight Education Group

According to an October 2018 jobs report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), there are 389,000 fewer teachers in the K-12 workforce than are needed to keep up with a growing student population. As of September 2018, the U.S. In the last couple of years, nearly every state in the U.S. has decried teacher shortages.

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Meeting the Educational Challenges of COVID-19 Together

MIND Research Institute

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. We have created a series of webinars and video resources to help you get started with the program, and help your students can get the most out of it. References. Ascione, L. eSchool News.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Read the article or watch the webinar. Check out my Booking Page .

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When Pushing Boundaries in Math Education, Where Can Teachers Turn For Help and Camaraderie?

MindShift

Earlier this year, math educator and Demos executive Dan Meyer published a piece entitled “Lonely Math Teachers” in which he raised the shortcomings of social media and the need for innovative math teachers to connect online. — David Butler (@DavidKButlerUoA) July 29, 2017. In his post, he made the case for Twitter.

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Engage Your Community with Parent Digital Citizenship Academies

Graphite Blog

Lastly, families needed tools and resources to access at home, so we wanted to show them what Common Sense Media has to offer and how it can make their lives easier. Finding the Right Approach Our first Parent Academy was at the end of the 2016–2017 school year. With over 1,000 views, we felt good about our first try.