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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

While in some cases, technology is used in powerful ways to support students in developing critical thinking and collaboration skills, and to develop a sense of agency, in other situations it is used in things like drill and practice exercises, test prep, and reading online content. 2 Kraft, M. Blazar, D., & Hogan, D.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

I always look forward to this final exercise. To someone fresh out of college, think of the Freshman Seminar as Education 201—a behind-the-scenes look into the world of education,” says Abena Anim-Somuah, who joined our customer support team in May 2018. With each purchase, schools would collect a cut of the sale. “To

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

Edsurge

Related Reading Remote.co: The leading remote companies and virtual teams answer your questions Remote.co: 17 Stats About Remote Work in 2018 Forbes: At These 125 Companies, All Or Most Employees Work Remotely While it’s great to be able to hire from literally anywhere in the world, the bad part is you can get a lot of candidates.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

As schools seek to better serve an increasingly diverse student population and close racial achievement gaps, Sussex Tech offers a case study in culturally responsive practice. “It’s our responsibility to students.”. Its experience shows how committed educators can create classrooms where all students feel respected and included.

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What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? A coronavirus case study

The Hechinger Report

Officials at Butte College gathered one fall Wednesday in 2018 for a tabletop exercise in disaster planning. The morning after Butte College’s training exercise, Andy Suleski, the school’s vice president of administration, was heading down Highway 99 to the campus. OROVILLE, Calif. We all lost something”.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. EdSurge talked to Benson about some of the findings in that study. They invited all of these stakeholders to be a part of a large team that came together to design a new middle school to be opened in 2018. How’d you do that?

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An article and a powerful conversation: two updates on code name FOEcast

Bryan Alexander

Where does the FOEcast project stand in mid-June 2018? (If Second, we held an ideation exercise at the Emerging Learning Design conference hosted by Montclair State University. Readers might recall that we’ve conducted several of these in 2018, including one face to face and another online.) Here’s a good intro.).

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