The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2020

Advocacy in the home, school, community, state, and country.” This week of legislative advocacy with CEC has me revved up for more grass-roots advocacy in the home, school, community, state, and country. Host Rebecca Muller, Special Educator and Advocate. Let's get together and discuss how we all CAN make a difference!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 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. She published more than 30 research papers and two books.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Founding CultureRx , home of the Results-Only Work Environment, Thompson and Ressler have helped other companies shift to this sort of a model.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

One , with the release of a new book ( BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World ) from Don and (his son) Alex Tapscott coming in May 2016 focused exclusively on the potential of blockchain, expect to hear much more about the technology in the popular press.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

Next week we'll be announcing the book groups that are starting. Information on hosting or joining a book is at bookschangelives.org. She is the author of eight books, including Liberating Genius , The Habitudes and The Passion Driven Classroom. As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. Can you give me an example of where you tried to be that teacher that you never had, and it did make a difference? Tom: You know, I read a really good book lately by a professor at UT at Knoxville, from Dr. Amy Broemmel. Tom: (agrees, laughs).

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer. Effective Advocacy. Two decades later, their strategy has clearly paid off: for-profit companies create and contribute to an incredible amount of open source software.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In most cases, schools are turning to third parties for help building out their core and non-core content right now, said Allison Powell, VP for new learning models at iNACOL , the nonprofit blended learning advocacy group. Powell points to Facebook’s recent move into the K-12 space as an example.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. Pressbooks (Book Oven Inc.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. Prior to getting there though, I may or may not have kissed a ton of “edu-frogs” in terms of buying into books and models that helped me “structure learning” in the garden that I came to believe that learning needed to be.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 8, 2016

Hosted by Joe Rodriguez (@edtechjoe), 5th Grade teacher at The Ambassador School of Global Education in Los Angeles, the edcamp Global Kidcasts session featured Lindsey Patterson (@TumbleCast), co-host of the Tumble Science Podcasts for Kids and Kitty Felde, host and executive producer of Book Club for Kids.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

She is a past board member and chair of CoSN and is Vice President of Advocacy and Programs for LACUE. She served as general counsel of a broadband company, and as a partner in a major international law firm in Washington D.C., Cynthia Schultz, Esq. About the Host. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With his transformative efforts, Mr. Hatcher has propelled Akron Public Schools to the forefront of educational excellence, becoming a shining example of how innovative education technologies can truly make a difference in students’ lives. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. There’s no excuse in 2020 for the books in your classroom and the books in your library not to be reflective of the population in the U.S. Picture books: Hands Up! That needs to be a goal,” said Michelle H.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning. If it’s between earning money and going to class, I’m going to earn money because I have to support people,” said Seidman, author of the new book Crossing the Finish Line: How to Retain and Graduate Your Students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Learn the story and the lesson plan and book that will help you build bridges with your students. Book Giveaway Contest. I wish My Teacher Knew Book Giveaway Contest. And she also has a book , and we’ll be hosting a giveaway for it on the show today. You know, the advocacy is not lost on them. Enhanced Transcript.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When he opens a book, he sees “just a whole bunch of words, a whole bunch of letters lined up.” That’s one reason schools have avoided using the word dyslexia, according to Fran Bowman, a former special education teacher who now runs an educational services company that works with school districts to train teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. culture.”. So far, none of the academies are in Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. in English from an Ivy League school followed and then a career that more than justified it: 10 years as a professor, author of a well-received book, 15 years leading nonprofit organizations. I am a poster child for the English major.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. Several of these books appear on more than one category page, and so are double counted. Many of the books overlap in the course they are designed to support, and so are counted multiple times. So here’s the second point.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Known as online program managers, these companies have been hired largely to connect universities with customers who want graduate degrees. Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Coaches help students develop the noncognitive abilities required to address these challenges — skills such as self-advocacy, time management, critical thinking, and communication. For example, one student — a first-generation single mom in the military — falls into several demographic “buckets.”. Begin Addressing the Whole Student.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

For example, CoSN counts phishing (sending fraudulent emails from seemingly credible accounts) as a top security threat to schools. Manheim Central School District (PA) Superintendent Dr. Peter Aiken said they partnered with a company to educate their staff about email threats. You can also read his leadership blog at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

To counteract these realities, Román-Lagunas said her staff members have been analyzing Latinx students’ data — majors, feeder high schools and retention rates, for example — to see where they can make a difference. Around campus, there are some signs of the university’s outreach to Latinx. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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MindShift

MAY 17, 2016

While the e-book market is growing, it’s not yet clear how it will play out in schools where educators have diverse needs for books. In the past, Luhtala might have ordered seven print copies of a new book, now she’s ordering four print books, two e-books and an audiobook to offer various avenues for students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In Allison McIntosh’s nearby seventh grade science classroom, students were three weeks into a project in which they had to draw a comic book story of a geologic site’s past, present and future based on the conditions that build up or chip away at mountains, carve valleys and dry out lakes. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

District IT offices were taking on the same tasks as Fortune 500 companies without the ability to implement them as effectively. Her new book, Emergent Technology Leadership , will be available in 2019. For administrators looking to take the focus of edtech away from upkeep and back to learning, moving to the cloud could be the answer.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. Shortly after leaving that post, Riley planted his skeptic’s flag with an oft-cited blog post titled, “Don’t Personalize Learning.”. “I Photo: Chris Berdik.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 1, 2019

For example, if the product is marketed directly to classroom teachers, then social media can be a primary focus of the campaign. If a company just focuses on sales messages, educators will tune out. For those just starting out with social media, all presenters advised that companies start small.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For example, postgraduate earnings are now being gleaned from tax records, and graduates’ average debt, by program, from the government’s National Student Loan Data System. Offers of financial aid, for example, are notoriously confusing. Related: 10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. That’s one way it’s trying to increase the number of transfer students, for example — especially from its community colleges — accepted by both public and private universities.

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