eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2023

“Representation matters, and many students of color simply don’t see themselves in most traditional classroom texts. This collection helps address this issue and supports teachers in creating inclusive classrooms where stories are discussed and embraced and where students learn about each other’s culture and heritage.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. The independent private school in Medina, Wash., For its part, St.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2020

Our first Library 2.020 mini-conference of the year is next week: "Wholehearted Libraries," online (and for free) on Tuesday, March 10th , from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Not only do libraries need high tech, they also need staff who approach their work with a wholehearted attitude.

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The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Whether on ISTE, ALA, AASL, YALSA, NEA, NCATE, METC, TCEA, or your local ISTE or library affiliate? I also wonder why, out of 50 Library Mover & Shakers every year, Library Journal magazine (and I''m a grateful recipient of that award , mind!), These organizations need our voices and our passion. Keep serving. Why not you!?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Themes include SEL skills like self-advocacy, confidence, and resilience while promoting a peer-to-peer model. Onboarding support and professional development to facilitate successful implementation. 15 months of complimentary support to ensure maximum engagement and efficacy. www.superdville.com

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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. percent to 22.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD). Dr. Dana T.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Ed note : This is the first in a series of columns from digital library expert Mark Ray discussing the changing role of librarians and the Future Ready Schools initiative. As the Future Ready Schools project enters its second year, districts are seeking to operationalize innovation from the classroom to the central office.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While she learned to navigate and understand the value of her library’s network of databases, she knows that many kids don’t even know what a database is. She recognizes the library as a safe space for the individual and as an important space that creates community. See video at 28:40.) I am standing here in privilege.

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Resources Libraries Advocacy Accessibility 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

House of Representatives passed the “ Parents Bill of Rights Act ,” which would guarantee parents access to more information online, including curriculum, budgets, reading lists and library books, while requiring them to be notified of student requests to change their gender-identifying pronouns. Last week, the U.S.

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Education Libraries Report Advocacy 121

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

Pen Argyl school libraries are where you find the pulse of the schools. Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. What do we know? What can we do?

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Let’s put her in the library.

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Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

AP) – One Thursday morning in May, instead of sitting at a desk in her sixth-grade classroom in the Oregon mountains, Khloe Warne sat at a table in her mother’s bakery, doing her schoolwork on a laptop and watching her favorite clips of anime. She described the fight to get her daughter back in the classroom as exhausting, stressful and sad.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Report 96

MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Some have publicly proclaimed the steps they will take to create anti-racist schools , including diversifying classroom and library bookshelves. That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. Evaluate older books that are already in your classroom.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Each of us -- teachers and students alike -- enter classrooms from different perspectives and points of view. Challenging or Difficult Conversations Controversial and difficult conversations are unavoidable in classrooms, especially those grappling with important cultural, social, and political issues.

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Resources Classroom Video Strategy 98

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 5, 2016

It’s just the beginning of School Library Month. AASL has been doing some seriously creative thinking about how we might use the month of April to celebrate the 2016 theme: the essential role that strong school library programs play in transforming learning. Central TV on a Dime: Creating a Library TV Studio. Tweet it out!

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Libraries Advocacy Facebook Social Media 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Our first Webinar in a special Library 2.0 Christie Kaaland , author of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Recovery in School Libraries: Creating a Safe Haven, and then from Shauna Burkeen , the librarian at Marshall County High School who experienced a school shooting this past January with 52 students in the library.

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Libraries Advocacy Training Accessibility 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. We lost eight of 18 classroom teachers in one summer.”

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Policies Education Elementary Advocacy 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. In this rural Tennessee county of just 12,000 residents, online learning simply isn’t an option for most families.

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Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. How much classroom time is lost? It’s the type of question Deana Around Him considers in her work.

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Advocacy Meeting Policies Course 157

Buncee

JANUARY 11, 2019

Joe and Kristin Merril- Using Buncee in the InterACTIVE Classroom -11AM. She will be sharing how Buncee fits into the different wedges and literacy within the FRL framework and stories of using Buncee in her library along the way. Explore the benefits of using Buncee in and out of your classroom. It will be a super fun session!

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Advocacy Future Ready Libraries Blended Learning 43

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

classrooms, the nonprofit is preparing to shut down. can access digital learning in their classrooms (with 2 million to go). billion E-rate program that provides broadband discounts to schools and libraries—along with the U.S. It’s the beginning of the end of the road for EducationSuperHighway.

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Broadband E-rate Advocacy Industry 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. based education advocacy group. “It Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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Future Ready Libraries Software Advocacy 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2020

WEDNESDAY'S SHOWS (July 29) : 10:00 AM - The Connected Classroom with Rusty May - "Teachers Unmuted - Preparing For What’s Next" with Tammie Greweld & Sheryl McAlearney – Master Teachers and SEL Educators." Advocacy in the home, school, community, state, and country.” Host Rebecca Muller, Special Educator and Advocate.

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Advocacy Classroom Conference STEM 36

Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

This is a summary of a conversation I had with our school’s library media specialist (LMS) Kari Kabat. First, have a well stocked school library that is appealing and always open for students to come find a book whenever they need one. Educators should be rethinking who the library really belongs to.

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Libraries LMS Learning Technology 58

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In each of these examples, ingenuity, creativity and initiative were exercised outside of the formal context of the classroom. Pedagogy of Remote Learning Remote learning should not be viewed as a virtual recreation of the in-person classroom. And another was responsible for cooking three days a week for a seven-person household.

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Learning Advocacy System Assessment 190

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Critical guidelines that can lead to successful and sustainable professional learning include specific content areas focus, opportunities for teachers to engage in hands-on learning, and professional learning experiences connected daily with classrooms. About the Host.

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Professional Learning Technology Learning Lenovo 98

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Rather than creating one-size-fits-all workshops, administrators should ask their teachers what they need in order for them to help the students in their specific classrooms. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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Professional Learning Technology Learning BYOD 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But EducationSuperHighway did it this week, announcing that the classroom internet connectivity gap is effectively closed – one year ahead of schedule, no less. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We Mississippi Learning. Their plan seems to have worked.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

In October I shared the news that the classroom connectivity gap in U.S. Families have, for years, parked outside of businesses that offer free Wi-Fi or taken their children to libraries to find a way to complete assignments that do require the internet. And the level of advocacy and support for a solution has snowballed.

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Advocacy Policies Accessibility Laptops 132

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. Classroom engagement and participation is probably the only key to making online courses more engaging.”

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

One of those leaders is Jennifer Latimer of Clinton Elementary School Library in Maplewood, NJ, who blogs as Anywhere Librarian and tweets as @jenlatimer. Harris Award for a Progressive School Library Media Program. The library can and should be about playful learning. I reconnected with Jennifer when she accepted the Jean E.

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Libraries Elementary Conference Classroom 40

edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2023

Providing students WiFi access in every classroom and outside common areas to expand the classroom setting. Installing classroom charging cabinets to secure the devices and keep them charged. A public-facing website showcases what is taught in the classroom and available programs.

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Accessibility LMS Chromebook Digital Divide 82

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2017

Rural communities’ broadband internet access has become a key part of President Donald Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure proposal, which would promote high-speed internet access across rural America, including schools, classrooms and libraries.

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Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Libraries 63

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Please join us for the third annual global conversation about the future of libraries: October 18-19, 2013, [link]. join the Library 2.0 The conference is once again being held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please ?join

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

and since learning inside was deemed dubious at best, the classroom was moved outdoors, where group gatherings were considered safe. Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. Maybe they have one classroom available outside but need 25.

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Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

Students can join Fishtronaut, Marina, and Zeek as they solve various cases about STEM while demonstrating the importance of local advocacy to create change. New Quiz Library! Did you hear we recently launched a library of pre-made quizzes for you to use with students? Learn More. Learn More. -->. Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation.

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