Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. This is her third year in the profession.

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Learning Elementary Academic Standards Policies 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Part of what I believe to be the truth,” Camelback’s founder and CEO, Aaron Walker tells EdSurge, “is that education is a long-tail game. James Kim, co-founder and executive director of BEAT (short for Bridging Education & Art Together), is on a mission to “take the ‘speech’ and the ‘therapy’ out of speech therapy,” he says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

One need only walk into any reasonably sized public library where rows of books and quiet reading spaces sit alongside banks of public computers, teen rooms and meeting facilities hosting daily community events to see the physical manifestation of this transformation.

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Libraries Academic Standards Learning System 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Most of an average student’s waking hours are spent somewhere other than school.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

Especially for education companies, it requires careful considerations around factors such as your company culture, infrastructure, processes, hiring procedures and customer interactions. Most of all, have a mission that reminds everyone they are working in an edtech company to build a better world by educating the next generation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Online support groups like #educolor and #hiphoped can provide advice from teachers and educators across the country. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. I want to be able to include the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Every fundraiser we did this year, every school event, every time one of my commitments needed something, I was there.”.

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N2Y

JULY 30, 2020

Presuming competence in the absence of persuasive evidence to the contrary is considered by many to be the least dangerous assumption we can make when providing educational programming. With functional communication, many things become possible, including assessment leading to improved social, communication, and educational programming.

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Assessment Data Academic Standards Examples 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Their work is a version of what educators call project-based learning, which means gaining knowledge by solving problems rather than by studying textbooks. After doing presentations at various events in Longmont, Boulder and Denver, the 17-year-old senior said, “It makes me feel ready for anything that might come my way.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 102

MindShift

JUNE 27, 2019

Every fundraiser we did this year, every school event, every time one of my commitments needed something, I was there.”. Tara Pocock, an educator and 4-H professional, fixes the rain gutter on the campus barn. She read confidently from her prepared statement. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report ).

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Kaplan Learning Report Academic Standards 52

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 8, 2018

I met up with one of my former youth group members a few years ago (yes, I used to run youth groups in the 80s and 90s) at an event on the Plymouth seafront. He told me that during this time he had little self esteem, his parents were dysfunctional and his academic standards were low. You never know who you are inspiring.

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Academic Standards Social Media Facebook Groups 35

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2015

Few would argue with the importance of educating the whole child. Even in today’s age of standardized testing and emphasis on academic standards, perhaps even because of this recent emphasis, educators are increasingly aware of the need to nurture students’ complete development. This is important for two reasons.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

That was how bubbly Apple employees, decked out in the green-and-yellow outfits that matched the colors of Lane Tech College Prep in Chicago, welcomed arrivals to the company’s highly-anticipated education event this morning. Bells signaled transitioned time between hands-on workshops led by educators. Here’s what we saw.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 131

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Education is a system, but teaching and learning are not systems. First, education. Education, as a system, doesn’t have a way of responding to or planning for this nuanced and entirely human process. This leaves a key actuator of education–teachers–to “handle” that part. by Terry Heick.

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System Study Academic Standards EdTech 40

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Today, there are over 8000 edtech products that the 1EdTech community certified as meeting 1EdTech standards for quality and trust. But the best place to collaborate is (thankfully, now, post-COVID) in-person at our Learning Impact annual event held June 5-8 in Anaheim, California. You don’t have to be a member to attend.

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 155

Hubbli

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Many parents are looking for a high-quality educational experience for their children that they may not be able to find in their local public school system. One way to increase enrollment is by emphasizing the advantages of a private school education. Enrollment in private schools is on the rise, and it’s no surprise why.

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Academic Standards Social Media Facebook Trends 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). All the major K-12 traditional textbook publishers were present at the event but only one—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—got speaking time on stage.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

eSpark

APRIL 18, 2022

As educators have come to realize that differentiation is an essential component of effective instruction, it’s become increasingly difficult for districts to settle upon a fixed curriculum that’s both engaging and leveled to each student’s individual needs for maximum student progress.

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Comparison Academic Standards iPad Resources 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Board of Education decision. It was reprinted with permission. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

One of the most significant challenges facing formal education in the United States is the chasm separating schools and communities. The more informed a family is, the more seamlessly they’ll connect to so many other edu-constructs, from extracurricular activities and tutoring to reading programs and school-related events.

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Academic Standards Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Assessment 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below). That was the election of Donald Trump as President.

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 78

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

In an event that could be called a love fest, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton laid out her education priorities in a rollicking speech at the annual assembly of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union. Convention coverage.

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