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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

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If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in an edtech company’s board meeting, or what keeps founders up at night, here was your chance to find out. Specifically, startups were advised to avoid recreating a 2018 version of door-to-door sales, which would mean marketing and selling to individual schools, districts or homeschool buyers.

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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This type of thinking and teaching, which took a back seat to the academic standards-based accountability movement of the past 30 years, is now on the rise. A call to action was broadcast in 2018 in A Nation at Hope , the culminating report of the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development.

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What Can Schools Learn from the Successful Transformation of Public Libraries?

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In her 2018 bestseller “ The Library Book ,” author Susan Orlean uses the history of a fire that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 to explore transformations that libraries and librarians have undergone over the last hundred years.

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Counselors Couldn’t Keep Up With Our Growing Mental Health Crisis, So Peers Stepped Up

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I became assistant principal in 2018, but served as dean of culture at Westgate for three years prior. But other times, our meetings were less formal—she just wanted to talk about her dog or share her writing. Katie and Jessica began meeting weekly and their relationship developed quickly. Jessica was one of these students.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Eastern and Central time zones, since that worked well for our meetings, sales operations and customer support times for schools. We used Skype for our daily/weekly, 1-on-1 and group meetings. It helped reinforce accountability; for example, we reviewed the status of everyone’s tasks in our weekly team meetings using screen share.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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In 2018, a report conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania found that 44 percent of new teachers left the classroom in five years. Photo courtesy of Winchester. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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Illuminate Education’s SchoolCity Product Suite Improves Efficiency with Certification from IMS Global Learning Consortium

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October 22, 2018) - To fulfill its promise to provide collaborative solutions to educators, , the leading K-12 Education Intelligence Platform (EIP), announces that its suite of personalized learning solutions is IMS Global Standards certified. Irvine, CA.