Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? For Caldwell, one strategy is to appreciate that students offer diverse backgrounds and talents. So how can we adjust learning experiences to cultivate more creating?

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Adobe Advocacy UDL Digital Citizenship 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. These goals could “push the rapid adoption of access codes across the institution,” the report states.

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Pearson Accessibility Course Report 149

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

NAGC’s mission is to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research. WGU is focused on expanding access to education around the country. STEM Minds. TGR Foundation.

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STEM Advocacy Robotics Strategy 292

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This funding, which was crucial in bridging the digital divide, now stands at a crossroads, potentially leaving many educational institutions grappling with outdated technology and hindering access to the digital resources necessary for effective learning. Advocacy for the extension or renewal of ECF funding is a critical step.

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Digital Divide E-rate Advocacy Libraries 122

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It is the newest addition to SETDA’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Collection , available for access in their OER Commons site. “As Microsoft is committed to increasing access to cybersecurity tools to help schools address this challenge. About SETDA SETDA is the principal association representing U.S.

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Resources Microsoft Advocacy OER 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. Data and research show that access to college coursework while in high school increases college enrollment, success and graduation rates and has a positive impact on academic performance.

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Advocacy Policies Education Course 92

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For years, the parent advocacy group worked tirelessly to influence education policy and practices in Oakland. Young had already built considerable credibility with the district through earlier advocacy work and a city-wide literacy campaign conducted by the parent-powered organization.

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Advocacy Trends Groups Meeting 169

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I had the chance to speak with Sean Roberts, VP of US Strategy from Code.org and get a pre-brief before today’s release. Highlights related to access and participation: • 2023 is the year of the largest growth in the percentage of high schools offering foundational computer science since 2018. Across 35 states, 5.8%

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Report Policies Education Advocacy 104

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 23, 2024

They find at least two sources, one of which is an editorial, website or promotional materials for an advocacy group, or some other type of opinion about the issue. As you review the lesson, the reading portion is built on the strategy, ‘Layering Meaning.’ Making difficult books accessible and easy books acceptable.

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Examples Advocacy Strategy Groups 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The bill specifies such strategies may include coaching; tutoring; mental health care; child care; assistance paying for basic needs such as housing and food; incentives to keep students on track; and institutional reforms to remedial education and transfer processes. Heinrich on “evidence-based student success programs.”

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Advocacy Policies Course Accessibility 184

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. Students have access to both a female and a male counselor and a social worker. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum.

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Advocacy Chromebook Exercises Groups 205

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Conditions of being short-staffed and overworked, of doing more with less, of managing personal difficulties, and then facing challenges related both to access to information and to polarization--these can really get to be too much for librarians. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins. and hosted by Loida Garcia-Febo.

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Libraries Advocacy Strategy Accessibility 73

ProfHacker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

This CFP comes by way of Kirsti Cole, who with Holly Hassel has just published Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership (Routledge, 2017). Successful chapters will describe the writers’ goals, how change was leveraged, and how the goals were achieved.

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Strategy Advocacy Policies Libraries 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. But this strategy had a fundamental error. Likewise, higher education institutions have tried various strategies to boost student enrollment but haven’t stepped back to ask, “Who is not completing applications?”

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Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 201

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Some use online programs or software to give students access to content at their individual level , allowing them to move through lessons at their own pace. It makes personalized learning a strategy for equity. The post Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Strategy Education Learning 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 18, 2023

Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. Garcia-Febo has a long history of service with library associations.

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Libraries Survey Advocacy Strategy 68

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Rural school districts face many unique trials, and access to educational technology is no different. But in order to take advantage of edtech, they first need broadband access. Thus, the price tag for getting connectivity can be expensive; in fact, the schools and some businesses may be the only place with reliable access.

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Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Experts like Goldrick-Rab, who specializes in college affordability and access issues, have suggestions on what could be done to help more students succeed—starting with official policies to make sure they have enough food to get through the day. This is why we have a national school lunch program [in K-12].

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Strategy Policies Advocacy Conference 111

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. Let’s start a movement.

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EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 334

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. Back to Basics Researchers at Dialogues in Action (DIA), a Portland-based research and strategy firm, interviewed 44 people who were engaged in Multnomah’s Preschool for All effort. We did get the balance right.

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Policies Advocacy Strategy Groups 182

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

What’s more, only 22 percent of educators surveyed strongly agree that administrators in their school districts are equipped with the necessary information to communicate options for high-speed internet access at home. Ensuring all ACP-eligible families are signed up is equally important in supporting district connectivity goals.

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Digital Divide Broadband Survey Outcomes 90

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

Implement personalized (time, path, place, strengths/needs) and personal (interests, passions, relevancy) learning strategies. Actively address the “ cemetery effect ” by utilizing research-based and design thinking strategies to transform classroom learning environments. Connectivity is a way of life for our students.

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Policies Advocacy Strategy Accessibility 197

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, two decades after the Internet became accessible to the masses, many educators still are slow to realize the possibilities that accompany our new digital tools and online environments. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact.

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Social Media Advocacy Twitter Facebook 262

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2024

This masterclass is not included in the individual or group annual all-inclusive all-access passes for the Dr. TO REGISTER: Click HERE to register. You can pay by credit card, and you will receive an email within a day with information on how to attend the event live and then your permanent access to the event recording.

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Libraries Advocacy Accessibility Strategy 41

N2Y

JUNE 9, 2022

Teachers can choose from strategies like pre‑ and post‑lesson checkpoints, graphic organizers, checks for understanding, and much more to help every student access meaningful learning while building critical thinking and problem‑solving skills. Engaging Topics and Differentiated Instruction. Summer Unit Content.

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Differentiated Instruction Advocacy Instructional Materials System 52

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Efforts to bring high-speed internet to all classrooms in the country have been bolstered by advocacy groups and by President Obama’s ConnectEd initiative , but one critical area lags behind: the so-called “homework gap” caused by students’ lack of home internet access.

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Strategy Advocacy Accessibility Resources 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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Advocacy Case Study Study Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

The time has come to face up to a troubling fact: Affirmative action is a policy designed to affect access to higher education, but many colleges have never sufficiently addressed their role in preparing students for a successful transition to life in college or gone beyond a laissez-faire approach to providing supports once they get in.

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Accessibility Advocacy Study System 101

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Over the past two years, the consortium has created open-access materials intended to make it easy for universities to start offering coursework on the topic of early childhood policy. To share open-access resources like these, the initiative is currently seeking proposals to design a digital platform to host materials.

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Policies Study Handbook Advocacy 157

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It is also immensely helpful to have tools and strategies to build good working relationships with people we see every day, sometimes even for longer periods than family. This masterclass is not included in the individual or group annual all-inclusive all-access passes for the Dr. TO REGISTER: Click here to register and pay.

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Libraries Advocacy Outcomes Accessibility 41

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 169

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Mental Health and Wellness Series OVERVIEW : Learning how to say no is an underappreciated tool to equip ourselves with winning strategies for a successful career and life. We will also identify key strategies related to the “why, how, and when” to say no, allow ourselves to be unavailable, and nurture our wellbeing.

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Libraries Advocacy Strategy Accessibility 41

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

N2Y

MAY 13, 2021

These centers are usually non‑residential, community organizations that advocate for complete access to housing, transportation, leisure, and employment. The tasks provide a means to address transition skills for communication, employability, daily living, self‑advocacy, and social strategies. Core Rubrics.

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Advocacy System Outcomes Training 87

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough. In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. Struggling Learners.

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Common Core Assessment Strategy Advocacy 239

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Through this work, we’ve developed four key strategies for choosing appropriate edtech resources. Yet this same research asserts that most teachers do believe edtech resources have the potential to be effective in supporting instructional strategies to meet students’ learning needs.

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EdTech Resources Advocacy Data 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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Advocacy Survey Study System 174