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This Paraprofessional Did Her Teacher Training on the Job. Now, She Has Her Own Classroom.

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Montgomery’s education and training experience had its share of detours but ultimately led her back to a career that she’d picked out for herself long ago, and which she feels she is especially well suited for. After high school, I initially went away to college to study to become a secondary math teacher. I said yes, of course.

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Remote Learning Is Here to Stay, Raising Concerns About Teacher Training and Data Privacy

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The survey, conducted of RAND’s nationally representative American School District Panel from September through November 2020, included more than 375 K-12 public school districts and charter management organizations. CoSN: “ 2020 State and Federal Cybersecurity Policy Trends.” Not every bill was focused on K-12 or higher ed.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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Secondary trends, found in only a few of the reviewed resources, included: blended learning, dashboards and learning analytics, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

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COVID-19’s Long-Term Impacts on Education in 2020 and Beyond

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Lynch also observed that because current college students who are training to be teachers won’t be able to fulfill their in-person practicum requirements as student-teachers in schools, there will be an increased shortage of K-12 teachers next year. Others may follow suit. Although there are millions of Americans qualified to fill the 3.7

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International Education During the Pandemic

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Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, a passionate educational consultant for T4Edtech, traveled to Italy and surrounding areas and has some interesting insights into their education efforts during the pandemic: From An Italian Train: Education during the Pandemic. 2020, [link]. Benigno, Vincenza, et al.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

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In California, College Connect is Rowland Unified School District’s solution to making college and post-secondary pathways more equitable for every student. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. And the exemplars continue.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

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When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. Through 2022, half of all planned cloud migrations will be delayed by two years or more due to the lack of trained talent.

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