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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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What’s It Like to Leave the Classroom for a Job in Edtech?

Edsurge

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Brown found herself sharing advice with so many educators looking to emulate her path that in 2021, she published a book on the subject. They’re going to need to ask about training offered by their target companies.

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7 things K-12 IT teams can do now to manage OT risks

eSchool News

Microsoft’s Global Threat Activity Map by Industry shows that, as of June 16, education institutions had been victims of 5.9 In the spring of 2021, the National Security Agency released a cybersecurity advisory that, while focused on the Defense Industrial Base, is applicable to many organizations.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. School districts will have to make choices.” The onsite training is expensive.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown

The Hechinger Report

Goldhaber estimates that in a school with 1,000 students, there was half an unfilled vacancy, on average, in the fall of 2021 – the most recent data he has analyzed. The script suddenly flipped during the 2021-22 school year as the federal government sent pandemic recovery funds to schools. Most departures were filled with new hires.

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The Best Teacher Rolling Carts For 2021

Fractus Learning

Preschool teachers and elementary school teachers would prefer an activity cart with bright colors and lots of baskets and bins easily accessible to students. The frame is industrial-strength tubular steel finished in chrome with flat handles, and the drawers are pearlescent opaque polypropylene with color-matched pull knobs.

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Slooh Brings Space Exploration to Classrooms Worldwide with ‘The Online Telescope for Teachers’

eSchool News

In addition to online telescope access, this new solution provides elementary through college-level teachers integrated curriculum-based lesson plans that can be used with students and ongoing professional development to help educators easily use the technology. “I Slooh was also named an “Elite 200” startup by the 2022 ASU-GSV Summit.