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Are Personal Learning Networks the Key to Keeping Teachers?

Edsurge

Putting the ‘Person’ in Personal Learning Networks While educators building communities to learn and share ideas isn’t new, today’s personal learning networks (PLNs) offer educators the chance to hone their focus and build their practice in specific areas of professional development.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says. The platform is currently only available through invitation, and it will only be publicly launched sometime in early 2021, according to Avida. But she’s still carving out some time to reconnect with her education roots. “At

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Supporting students: What’s next for mental health

The Hechinger Report

Surgeon General issued an advisory warning of a youth mental health crisis in December 2021, following a declaration earlier that fall of a “national emergency in child and adolescent mental health” by a coalition of pediatric groups. The report card grades states on eight policies identified by the campaign as solutions to the crisis.

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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

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So when schools called us during the summer of 2021, they often asked whether they should stick with the schedules they created for distance, hybrid or safer in-person learning or return to a more traditional format. Too often when we think of daily schedules, we tend to think about their impact on secondary school.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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TEL Education Makes Learning Visible with Student Learning Dashboard

eSchool News

Rob Reynolds, “One of the biggest challenges in today’s education environments is that, for many students, learning has become a ‘black box’ of sorts. The purposes and processes of learning, the “why” and “what for,” are largely invisible and inaccessible to students.”. Giving Students Ownership.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

Edsurge

That would be by April 30, 2021.) That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest.

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