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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). As an example, the report highlights the experience of Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, which has embraced universal design for learning in a variety of ways.

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Why Teacher Self-Care Matters and How to Practice Self-Care in Your School

Waterford

Self-care activities can be small- to large-scale habits, with examples ranging from packing a healthy lunch to waking up early every day to do a mindfulness meditation before work. People in caregiving positions like teachers, for example, often find it easier to tell others to take care of their health than to do so themselves.[7]

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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

Edsurge

In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. Perspective-taking Skits: My students chose two examples of actions to avoid and developed skits to act out with the teachers. The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

Edsurge

For the 2017-18 academic season, for example, 71 percent of Common App users who did not submit an application through the platform still attended college within the next academic year, according to the analysis. “I When filling out financial aid forms, her mother had the needed documents prepared, for example.

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

NeverEndingSearch

In a Seesaw Blog Ideas post , Alison Murphy shares several examples for using these games right out of the box or follow instructions to personaliz[ing] your own plan: Seesaw Go! These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. plan for teachers. game board to print.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. and Canada.

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

Edsurge

In 2017, 53 percent of the students in the K-12 public education system in the United States were Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous or multiracial. For example, if students or parents have to pay out of pocket for a solution, then that is insufficient to build true equity.

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