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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

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Architecturally, this plays out in new schools resembling whatever is culturally perceived as representing modernity (the factory in the early 20th century, the Google headquarters today). It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

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While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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

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We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. We also conducted multiple interviews using one-to-one and group video conferencing calls, which not only allowed us to see the candidate but also gave us a good indication of how tech-savvy they were. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

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Sharing Platforms – Ralyea notes that a major aspect of digitization is the ability to share standards-aligned resources with peers. That’s already happening with tools like Google Classroom. Imagine this sharing option built into a coordinated system that allows for greater curricular adaptation and usage? Join the Community.

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How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code. Just a reminder, per our district policy and Principal Peabody’s PA announcement this morning, there should no cell phones out any time. Or their extended family. Anybody but you.

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

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Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.