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

Edsurge

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Arizona’s Apache Junction Unified School District Supports Innovative Teaching and Learning with New EdTech Resources 

eSchool News

Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Following a careful review of available resources, the district selected Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for classroom use. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

eSchool News

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . These resources, sourced from trusted partners, are aligned to state and national standards, and help educators bring the outside world into teaching and learning every day.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

The articulation of academic standards for students by elected and appointed public school officials is nothing less than an expression of community values and collective future vision for the country. Students should not have to trade their privacy in exchange for a free, high-quality public education.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Because of these problems, the $1,500 OpenROV 2.8

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.”

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60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves

TeachThought - Learn better.

Learning events , maybe. So I came up with 60 (of millions) of these “learning events” (for lack of a better term)–circumstances in which students seem to learn effortlessly. For now, consider the following events as examples. That’s where curriculum mapping, learning models, and lesson design come in.