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

Edsurge

Eastern and Central time zones, since that worked well for our meetings, sales operations and customer support times for schools. We used Skype for our daily/weekly, 1-on-1 and group meetings. It helped reinforce accountability; for example, we reviewed the status of everyone’s tasks in our weekly team meetings using screen share.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

Edsurge

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. In a December 2016 letter by Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to Kelly about the pilot program, Skorkowsky noted that students enjoyed lessons about data literacy from the product’s visualizations and about science from real-world case studies.

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16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read

TeachThought - Learn better.

“The book centers on case studies that exemplify the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities facing teachers in diverse classrooms. This is basically an updated, more accessible version of his original work (see below) that is designed for professional development, staff meetings, and other forms of teacher training.

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‘They just saw me as a dollar sign’: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students

The Hechinger Report

The suit also alleged that Premier had misled potential students about job placement rates and pressured staff to “renounce all academic standards.”. It’s typical for less expensive, public institutions not to accept credits from for-profit schools that don’t meet the same standards. Premier has denied the allegations.

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