Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

I’ve been writing this article 30 minutes here and 60 minutes there for several months (WordPress tells me I saved the first bits in March). This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, and a former assistant deputy director at the CFPB. The post Withholding college transcripts for loan payment is ‘abusive,’ federal agency says appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Due to pressure from state politicians and local advocacy groups about what can be taught and how, some idealistic young people who might be drawn to teaching decide to pursue alternative careers, or move elsewhere to teach in regions that are more aligned with their beliefs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. For instance, we just know that students spend their days in groups of about 25: not 5, not 50. The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools. And for good reason. But what are the alternatives?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. A Science of Math Facebook group, which they started in December 2020, now has more than 21,000 members. The group is not arguing for a return to old-fashioned rote instruction, Powell says.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As a former teacher with 23 years in the classroom myself, I understand that educating young students leaves little time for legislative advocacy. Tapping Your Interest Groups. Fortunately, schools have powerful allies and interest groups already built into their community. All they have to do is tap them.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I’ve read their books and articles. In fact, Dr. McLaughlin’s recent article, co-written with NCDE President, Dr. Paul Resta On Systemic Digital Equity, Systemic Inclusion and the Teacher Librarian in the Pandemic Era , ( Teacher Librarian , Oct. 2020) is available on the NCDE website.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Depending on their interests, Chao says, the student-led chapters might exchange letters based on a theme, focus on education around mental health, or participate in advocacy for mental health resources at their schools. The reactions to the concept were mixed, Chao recalls. But another student thanked her.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the Code.org Advocacy Coalition , across 24 states, only 27 percent of schools serving low-income students offer computer science courses, compared to 41 percent of schools serving their high-income peers. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

James wants to see his daughter living on her own, in a group home and earning money to help support herself. Article: An Interview with LeDerick Horne. Article: CTE: Making a Difference in Post-School Lives. Article: Michael B. Article: Dr. John Collins on His New ONEder Curriculum! Building Self-Advocacy.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

MIT OCW, Rice’s Connexions, my group at USU, and others applied the new Creative Commons licenses to their materials to create open content. They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. ” There were two kinds of educational materials in the world.

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MiddleWeb

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn describe ways leaders can effectively advocate for schools by developing strategic alliances with local officials, internal groups in schools and external groups in the community. It can be time consuming but definitely worth the effort!

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N2Y

DECEMBER 17, 2020

However, as this article written for the Council for Exceptional Children points out, the concept of leadership is preserved when the emphasis is on asking the child about what is important and using that information to create new goals. As you work with your student on self-advocacy, speak openly about their disability and learning needs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

I thought of this while reading a fascinating and provocative article titled “ Want to Fix Public Schools? Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Fix the Public First ” by David J.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Teacher training is similar to influential groupthink, focusing in on design thinking, group discussions, meetings and project collaboration. Set up meetings to chat with your child’s teacher to explain unique concerns and necessary accommodations.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The group is made up of 60 national organizations that advocate for increased investment in the $1.1 We hope that the Department will implement the SSAE block grant and support the programs and services that provide direct educational benefits to students,” the group wrote in a letter to Congress last month. said in the Times article.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

There’s a general assumption that all companies have two separate audiences—namely, the customers and the potential hires—and that their branding should cater to each group distinctly. We do this through sponsored articles, Twitter campaigns, newsletter sponsorship and branded recruitment events. But that may be misleading.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Self Advocacy and Resources for Students. Accordingly, the intensity of instruction (number of days designated for intervention, the length of sessions, or group size) should vary according to students’ skill level and rate of progress. cause-and-effect, problem/ solution structure, etc.),

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2023

She has written articles on these topics for Knowledge Quest, American Libraries Magazine , The Library Assessment Conference, and ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog. She also chaired the 2018 working group that revised ALA’s Library Bill of Rights for Diverse Library Collections.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 1, 2023

She has written articles on these topics for Knowledge Quest, American Libraries Magazine , The Library Assessment Conference, and ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog. She also chaired the 2018 working group that revised ALA’s Library Bill of Rights for Diverse Library Collections.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 3, 2023

She has written articles on these topics for Knowledge Quest, American Libraries Magazine , The Library Assessment Conference, and ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog. She also chaired the 2018 working group that revised ALA’s Library Bill of Rights for Diverse Library Collections.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Teen activists worldwide are making headlines for their social justice advocacy on everything from climate change and immigration to substance abuse and LGBTQ issues. Here are some highlights, grouped by category.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Listen to this article. . Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

While each gifted journey may be different, and the obstacles each gifted child and their family face can be simply inconvenient or tragically painful, there are three areas teachers and parents should remember when searching for answers to help better the educational, emotional and social lives of gifted children— advocacy, activities and mentors.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. There’s a growing group of people and institutions whose primary commitment has shifted from open to free. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

A group of colleges has decided to stop holding students captive and allow them to get their lives back on track. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today. Debt is the amount of money that is owed.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Achieve3000.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Learn a simple advocacy technique that gets members of the community involved in a relevant legislative/policymaking process. Have students read Ensuring Equity: The Future of TOPS or a news article that explains how TOPS funding is inadequate to fully meet the program’s needs. Objectives: Change the qualifications for TOPS.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

In fact, this kind of learning was repeatedly promoted over the past century, as this 1928 article from The New York Times shows. For example, as I described in my book, one group of students at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Ill., Have students work in small groups to create draft surveys.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 5, 2023

She has written articles on these topics for Knowledge Quest, American Libraries Magazine , The Library Assessment Conference, and ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom Blog. She also chaired the 2018 working group that revised ALA’s Library Bill of Rights for Diverse Library Collections.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These types of arrangements require effective partnering with unions and community groups, in order to identify solutions and reach agreements while dealing with budget shortfalls. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. He also works with edWeb.net to write articles on their professional learning edWebinars.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

More about this week's guests: Patrick Farenga brings more than 34 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife unschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways. He is the author of 24 books and several hundred articles about technology, learning, business, and human progress.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In one recent study by the Stanford History Education Group, 170 high school students were shown a photo of flowers growing fused together and asked if that provided strong evidence on the conditions outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The study was financed by an environmental advocacy group, not an unbiased source.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project’s end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Equity Accountability Model: Administration looked at the groups of students that were typically underperforming and asked how they know they are underperforming and why. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Without the deeper details about these students, the district couldn’t develop an action plan to help them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school.

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