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Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’

eSchool News

Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media posts for signs they might engage in violence on campus or harm themselves so that school staff — and in some cases police — can intervene. Chicago Public Schools piloted a similar social media monitoring program in the mid-2010s. newsletters.

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Nurturing a media literate next generation

Neo LMS

Relationships and Health Education will now (finally) be statutory in all British primary schools from September 2020. Good schools have always placed importance on personal, social and health education (PSHE). Social media and digital connectivity is an integral part of our daily lives. Changing curriculums.

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2021 Reflections: Looking Back and Harnessing Powerful Possibilities

Digital Promise

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ??grounded While we’ve known about the challenges of equity and outcomes in U.S. grounded in learning sciences research.

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MIND Blog Rewind: Summer 2020

MIND Research Institute

Here's a roundup of stories from the summer of 2020. In preparation for the 2020-2021 school year, we rolled out several new features within the ST Math program, including the new assignments feature. You can read more about how these enhancements improve student learning outcomes in his latest blog. New ST Math Design Insights.

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Top Posts of 2019

A Principal's Reflections

Here I get to experience firsthand how many of the ideas that are talked about on social media and at conferences are successfully implemented into practice. Here's to an amazing 2020 everyone. Often ideas pop into my head when I am sleeping, and I immediately wake up to type them into a note file I have on my iPhone.

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OPINION: The pandemic challenged school administrators, but didn’t break us

The Hechinger Report

Simultaneously, superintendents needed to contend with the unprecedented rise of social media, in which disinformation and rumors and threats to students, staff and leaders became everyday occurrences. By 2020, stories of superintendents and senior administrators taking early retirement or leaving the profession were ubiquitous.

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Speak Up 2020 Congressional Briefing: Release of the National Research Findings

edWeb.net

For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in a pandemic-induced educational environment. She was named in 2020 as the winner of EdTech Digest’s National Leader award and is the longest serving woman executive in the education technology nonprofit sector.