Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Senate found that Monarch School’s students had poor reading and math skills when compared to public schools in the San Diego area, especially for elementary students. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. But the objection is more sweeping.

Advocacy 177

Advocacy Outcomes Report Study 177

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

School and district leaders will be actively seeking innovative approaches, leveraging data, and collaborating with advocacy organizations and policymakers to bring about meaningful changes in how we educate English Language Learners. Older children have access to these solutions, so why not offer the opportunity for young learners?

Robotics 98

Robotics Industry Elementary Training 98

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Vancouver Public Schools (VPS) Director of Technology Mark Ray stated, “When students can control and build something and have an opportunity to have a small amount of control, it is powerful for engagement in school and as individuals.” Community Engagement and Advocacy.

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Maker Movement Robotics Education Advocacy 211

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds.

Digital Divide 114

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 114

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland.

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Meeting Elementary Training Common Core 0

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. It’s not even guaranteed that district- and school-based staff are aware of the mandate at all.

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Training Advocacy Resources Instructional Materials 153

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

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Survey Advocacy Study Social Media 177

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

He understands that digital equity doesn’t simply mean access to broadband or computers. It also means access to school librarians. It means access to someone who can teach the skills that students need to be successful. We hope our responses will push and represent larger thinking.

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Advocacy Libraries Broadband System 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Several times a week, Ericka Santiago-Diaz can be found driving around her low-income, underserved school community in New Jersey’s Asbury Park with bags of school supplies, replacement technology, food and donated clothing in the back seat to deliver to students. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 128

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Tom: You know, I think one of the best ways in 2017 is to meet new people, and to really have good access to quality of text in front of us… is Twitter. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford Biography as Submitted Tom Loud is a first-grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee.

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How To Twitter Moodle Elementary 237

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. American schools are overwhelmingly English-only environments — and too often, this can make them hostile spaces for English learners and their families.

Education 132

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 132

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program.

Learning 144

Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

But that hasn’t stopped Diaz from advocating for parents like her to have better access to and understanding of school data. Both attend Dover Elementary School where student achievement in math and English decreased significantly during the last year. For people to go into the library to be able to access that data, that’s hard too.

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Libraries Data Learning iPhone 94

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Tom: You know, I think one of the best ways in 2017 is to meet new people, and to really have good access to quality of text in front of us… is Twitter. Tom Loud is first grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee. Loud’s passions are technology integration in the elementary grades, along with teacher motivation.

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Twitter Company Elementary Advocacy 260

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The Evolution of Response to Intervention When President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act in 1975, it was because public schools had a history of systematically denying students with special needs access to a public school education. Name changed to protect student privacy.

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Assessment Education Handbook Data 162

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools. A gender-neutral bathroom is a really critical bathroom that students should have access to. Why was that important to your family?

Policies 141

Policies Advocacy Conference Survey 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

While the learning curve has been steep in terms of new technology, and there have been some expected kinks to work out, virtual learning has brought some opportunities that an immediate return to in-person learning may not have. I have become adept at some new technologies that have lessened paperwork and uncluttered my desk quite a bit.

Online Learning 144

Online Learning Learning Advocacy Personalized Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge. on March 18, 2020. Mackey Pendergrast.

Learning 69

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elementary Learning Data Report 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

She has learned to use technology-enabled woodcutting tools and is at work creating a virtual tour of her school, Laing Middle School in Charleston County, using another drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. I know college isn’t for everyone, but I think in reality that statement has biased undertones,” O’Quinn said.

Robotics 112

Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

Pacific Time) Joan Naturale, NTID Librarian, Rochester Institute of Technology Presentation on Libraries and the Deaf Community ( 1:40 – 2:10 p.m. Select “Education” and that will allow you to access the site to “Submit Position Letter.” Sign up at [link] Agenda Welcome (1 – 1:10 p.m. Pacific Time) Danica Rice, Head Librarian, Luce J.

Libraries 36

Libraries Advocacy Social Media Study 36

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. Access to technology is another funding-related struggle. “If

Elementary 54

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 54

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 50

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It Teacher-librarians such as Chun have since expanded that tech-integration role.

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Future Ready Libraries Software Advocacy 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access. in Communication from University of California, San Diego.

Libraries 45

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 45

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Provide access to integrated wraparound services and supports, which should include partnering with community officials like law enforcement and hospitals to ensure that students receive support wherever and whenever they need it. SEL should be integrated into the materials; Develop inclusive discipline and dress code policies.

Education 65

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 65

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Savvas is proud to call out Johnston County Public Schools as an outstanding example of K-12 success using enVision — a true “K-12 Hero” using its innovative education technology. Cleveland relentlessly advocated for equitable access to Hazel’s mental health services in all district schools rather than limiting services to a small group.

Education 130

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 130

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. They’ve applied these questions to something seemingly insignificant like changing bus routes to more typical challenges like which students have access to which classes.

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Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 80

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. Susan Gentz is a partner at K20Connect, a consulting consortium of experts focused on education leadership, technology and policy.

EdTech 96

EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 96

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And if you click www.coolcatteacher.com/edpuzzle , Edpuzzle will give your school access to the 50,000 best lessons from Edpuzzle, organized in folders and ready to be used by teachers. Tom: You know, I think one of the best ways in 2017 is to meet new people, and to really have good access to quality of text in front of us… is Twitter.

Twitter 90

Twitter Flipped Classroom Elementary Advocacy 90

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

Edmentum 111

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. SHOW LINK BIO: Rebecca’s dedication to exceptional learners started in elementary school when she was a “special friend” to the mainstream class. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children. And many do not.

Classroom 36

Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our overall objective was to expand access to literacy and use real-world data in curating and individualizing collections to better serve the needs of the district’s highly diverse student population. Students can easily access the collections through their reading app. Maximizing purchasing power for district-wide access.

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Data Advocacy Libraries eBook 107