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How a Little-Known Federal Program Creates Opportunities for Migrant Students

Edsurge

I met Olga in 2017 when I began coordinating the MEP; since then, I have become the regional director of the largest migrant education region in California. Implementing MEP Comes With Challenges The MEP is a federally funded program that was established under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

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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]. Journal of Counseling & Development, April 2017, 95(2), pp. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students. Group discussions can be held during Google Meet or Zoom sessions. November, 2017. Journals help students practice expressing themselves in writing. Firstcry Parenting.

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EmpowerU Launches Platform to Streamline Expert Social-Emotional Learning and Support for K–12 Students

eSchool News

Since 2015, the EmpowerU solution has been developed to help schools meet the needs of struggling students—without the need for additional hires or more work for the school’s teachers or in-house student support team. The online platform is EmpowerU’s epicenter of student success.

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Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter’s Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

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Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. Katie Blot, the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, says she can trace at least 5 of those deals to a meeting at ASU+GSV.

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The digital-first district where OER meets iPads

eSchool News

Department of Education’s #GoOpen initiative have spurred school districts across the country to incorporate quality open resources into their curricula, but initiatives like Central Valley’s are fairly rare among elementary and secondary institutions, University of Pittsburgh librarian and open educational resource advocate Paul Bond said.

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How we turned around our data culture and student learning

eSchool News

The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students. Lessons learned: To better meet the needs of the schools changing student population, we had to create a strong data culture in which we study the data behind student scores and grades.

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