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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents. In April 2021, the district launched monthly parent advocacy meetings focused on restorative justice, literacy, and college and career readiness.

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5 Ideas to Improve Rural Education in America

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 40 of #10MT Interviews Daisy Dyer Duerr From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges. The need for more rural education advocacy. Blog: [link]. I hope you enjoy this episode with Daisy! www.daisydyerduerr.com.

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State Spotlight: Texas’ Student-Centered Response to COVID-19

ExcelinEd

Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . Bridging the Digital Divide. Designing New School Models.

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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

NeverEndingSearch

I showed them some of the products our students created as the result of their research–the blogs and wikis; the digital stories created with traditional movie-making tools and VoiceThread and Animoto I told them all these tools are available and they are free. He discussed the digital divide with them.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

techlearning

He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves. The digital divide will not be bridged simply by coding but “by young leaders who have been educated to transform their reality” says Amouzou.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

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. Lisa was one of 100 Superintendents selected as #FutureReady by President Obama and Secretary Arne Duncan.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

She is a past board member and chair of CoSN and is Vice President of Advocacy and Programs for LACUE. is one of the nation’s leading experts in E-rate and is passionate in her work to close the digital divide. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.

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