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

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Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar. Class Clowns ” by Jonathan A.

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

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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

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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. Teachers and administrators here acknowledge lingering tensions over last fall’s seminar. “It’s our responsibility to students.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Does growth mindset matter? The debate heats up

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Indeed, Macnamara herself found this same dichotomy between low and high achievers back in her first meta-analysis of growth mindset published in 2018. In that earlier study, she had a skeptical conclusion, that mindsets were unlikely to produce large, consistent benefits for students. “You get remarkably similar results,” she said.

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

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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.

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MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

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But when that trustee, Byron Trott, asked in 2018 how many students at her university came from rural places, as he had, “we couldn’t even answer the question,” Betley said. And it’s a case study in how rural families aspire to, fret about and often decide to forgo college.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” And the latest on the court case/Trump University scandal: Via NPR : “ Texas Governor Linked To Trump University Fraud Case.” And now, onward, with 5 more months of presidential campaigning.