eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2023

Situated in the diverse school district of Yonkers, the third largest city in New York state, the magnet school has implemented strategic measures to enable and empower its students through various tools and programs. Her commitment to student success is truly inspiring.” said Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Renaissance Learning will host SXSWedu’s kickoff bash with beverages at Buffalo Billiards from 7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. And yes, you’ll hear birds chirping, but that is ok! Students just turn in work. You know, what do we say to ourselves?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2017

“We think that’s the hardest work left,” said Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. “We The new report , “Time to Act 2017: Put Data in the Hands of People,” catalogs how the evolving use of data has influenced policy and teaching practices over the last 10 years.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2024

Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. In reflecting back on the past few years with the changes education has seen due to the pandemic, Mike asks the question, “what tools have stuck?” Finally, the resources and tools are aligned with the ISTE standards. .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Launched in 2015, Future Ready Schools ®, a collaboration of over 60 national and regional organizations, led by the Alliance for Excellent Education , lays out a framework for change and provides a myriad of free tools and resources, as well as support for district and school-based leaders.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It is also immensely helpful to have tools and strategies to build good working relationships with people we see every day, sometimes even for longer periods than family. Everyone can improve skills related to building good working relationships with coworkers and managers. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Later, during an afternoon session, Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education policy at Temple University, shared findings from a 2017 study that found more than half of the 33,000 students surveyed were housing insecure, while 56 percent face food insecurity and 14 percent are homeless. “We So what’s the policy solution?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Online registration and enrollment aren’t novel ideas in 2017; they are a convenience parents expect and a tool any registrar will appreciate. Tech-friendly districts understand the impact of a positive first impression on job satisfaction, advocacy, and retention. Not anymore.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mental Health and Wellness Series OVERVIEW : Learning how to say no is an underappreciated tool to equip ourselves with winning strategies for a successful career and life. The Art of Saying No to Preserve Our Wellness: A Masterclass with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0 President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 9, 2023

Although the situation sounds dreadful, there are tools we can use to support ourselves, our colleagues, and staff members. She brings a customizable suite of tools to equip library workers to help them manage their own personal situations. Librarians are reporting that they are stressed out, fatigued, burned out, and exhausted.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

It also provides classroom management and anonymous reporting features, as well as tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices. Impero also offers Impero EdLink , a mobile device management tool to help schools manage one-to-one initiatives and BYOD programs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.) This is hard work.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

We actually have been working since 2017, to try to get this data project funded. Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? This type of meaningful analysis tools has not ever been available, which is another unique point about the SLIDE project.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Fuller formerly served as an operating executive at Investcorp Technology Partners, which assumed ownership of Impero in August 2017. It also provides anonymous reporting features and tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices. “I’m thrilled to be taking on this new challenge,” said Fuller of his new role.

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

Walters currently serves as Advisory Director of Investcorp, which assumed ownership of Impero Software through its technology-focused private equity Fund, Investcorp Technology Partners, in August 2017. It also provides anonymous reporting features and tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And as it turns out, getting students to understand those terms, and how they differ from loans and other financing tools, is a common hurdle. This is a new financial tool for students, and students have mixed perceptions and don’t understand it well,” says Jason Taylor. He is of no relation to Terri Taylor.) Is it a loan?

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techlearning

MAY 10, 2018

Impero also provides anonymous reporting features and classroom management tools. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits. Educators are able to view the students’ comments or internet searches in context to determine the appropriate next steps.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

Many district leaders are wary of soliciting such sensitive information, fearing they won’t have the tools to help students in crisis or that they’ll be liable if tragedy strikes and they weren’t able to intervene. Next year, district leaders plan to use the tool with seventh- and eighth-graders as well.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In 2017, Lauren Jones, then a professor of developmental writing and reading at Columbus State Community College, received a FAST Fund grant to help provide for her students, like the one who often left a morning class early to stand in line for lunch at a nearby food pantry. “We We didn’t really ask anyone for permission,” Jones says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. And they said, “No, he’s had his private lesson. He’s good.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Rebecca Hines consented to lead its relaunch in 2017, but on her terms. “I I agreed to bring it back only if it could be something different and make an immediate impact for our local schools,” the associate professor says.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

He believes executive function skills should be taught early on through a “marriage” with SEL so that students have as many tools and resources as possible. In July of 2017, Dr. Simpson was appointed Deputy Superintendent for the Division of School Leadership and Improvement for Clayton County Public Schools.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Michelle is the 2016 TCEA Library Media Specialist of the Year, a 2017 AASL Advocacy Ambassador Finalist, a Wonderopolis Wonder Lead Ambassador, a Makey Makey Ambassador, and a Common Sense Media Ambassador, as well as a recipient of the 2016 TASL MVP Honorable Award for Excellence and the 2016 TLA Branding Iron Award for Social Media for #TXLchat.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They used to provide the tool for us to give the survey, but this year and moving forward, districts can create their own tool to give the survey. We now work with the Panorama survey tool as it is much better than Google Survey. Gallup promises to transform school culture and improve students’ hope and engagement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. Monday, September 18, 2017. Tom: You know, I think one of the best ways in 2017 is to meet new people, and to really have good access to quality of text in front of us… is Twitter. Today we’ll talk about unleashing the potential in every child.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Rather than viewing them as tool for punitive measures, assessments are just another tool that allows educators to figure out how to improve teaching and learning. In 2017 the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

I was a science educator, so I’m pretty comfortable and confident using technologies of all kinds, although the kids have really surpassed me when we start to get some of the newer tools that their using, particularly as part of their Maker Work. But I’m not uncomfortable around it. It doesn’t scare me. She holds a B.S. Twitter: @pammoran.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. McKneely quickly discovered that the share of families who lacked Wi-Fi, laptops and other tools necessary to participate in remote learning was even greater than anticipated – some 40 percent. That’s been a reality the last few years.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2017

Global Education Leadership Week (GLW) is a week-long celebration of leadership through global action in K-20 education, taking place this week, April 24 - 28, 2017, and organized by the Global Education Conference (GEC) Network. Free and open to the public. 11:00am Catalyst Conference Keynote: Sean Maguire of Plan International.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

For example, providing warm clothing for the homeless can grow into advocacy for more essential programs to end homelessness. A great tool is the “root cause tree” graphic organizer. While many of the examples are about giving time or money, any of them can be expanded into larger efforts for substantive change.

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