The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Jon: Mount Ida is definitely part of a bigger trend, one that’s being felt around the country. Michael Horn: They’re not asking the right questions of their presidents and provosts to say, are the trends in the right direction? Check a private, nonprofit institution’s publicly available financial documents.

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Report Trends Accessibility Advocacy 72

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

The Fab Lab is one way the Charleston County School District is trying to build career planning into curricula for children at earlier and earlier ages, a trend unfolding in school districts around the country. To encourage writing, students must keep an engineering journal where they document their ideas and keep track of their progress.

Robotics 112

Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

Reading By Example

DECEMBER 5, 2018

When school leaders make instructional walks a daily habit, we start to discover patterns and trends. Having the context from the previous instructional walk, I felt in a better position to observe what was happening and document the learning. Some of them are particular to a teacher and some are schoolwide. I sat with four students.

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MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

The Fab Lab is one way the Charleston County School District is trying to build career planning into curricula for children at earlier and earlier ages, a trend unfolding in school districts around the country. To encourage writing, students must keep an engineering journal where they document their ideas and keep track of their progress.

Robotics 44

Robotics Elementary Training STEM 44

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

By stripping away formal observations and replacing them with instructional walks, we acknowledged that instruction is not simply a list of indicators to be documented and scored. I like these trending topics. Another more authentic measure of student learning we have utilized for a couple years now are digital portfolios.

Student Engagement 28

Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

By stripping away formal observations and replacing them with instructional walks, we acknowledged that instruction is not simply a list of indicators to be documented and scored. I like these trending topics. Another more authentic measure of student learning we have utilized for a couple years now are digital portfolios.

Student Engagement 28

Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

E-rate 111

E-rate Advocacy Data Libraries 111

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

COLLABORATE Space provides persistent space to store messages, documents, whiteboards, recordings, meeting minutes, or anything else exchanged on a specific topic or project during a call or meeting at anytime, and is accessible from any device, whether it be a mobile, desktop, or room appliance. K-12 market.

Tools 60

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Artificial intelligence was a trend among the for-profits that presented. They are a collection of all the documents the company has compiled on a single scientific concept. It wants to create a movement of “equity designers” through youth programs, leadership development and educational advocacy tools.

Personalized Learning 123

Personalized Learning Learning Company Policies 123

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

All the talk of the importance of “emotion” in education reflects other trends too. ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope. You can read more about who’s funding this and other trends in my year-end series on funding.hackeducation.com.). And “people” here certainly includes students.

Technology 67

Technology Education Facebook Company 67

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 19, 2022

If a national ban on these practices/topics is imposed, I will take it as a signal to take my beliefs to higher levels in the name of advocacy for our children. Being forbidden from exposing students to varying perspectives and non-dominant narratives would mean the same for me. But, not everyone is able to take that stance.

Policies 72

Policies Social Media Meeting Examples 72

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

IFLA NPSIG training session on library advocacy - Molly Schwartz, NPSIG Co-Convener Creating Reusable Learning Objects - Christinger Tomer, Associate Porfessor Dispelling the Myth of the APA Monster: Information Services in a Digital Environment - Sara Stambaugh Online Learning Materials for a MOOC Course - Dr.

Libraries 51

Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

New York state started one of the first Department of Educations in the country, and it was big on documentation. ” It’s a terrible message to send to children–that once you become a teacher, you lose your right for self-advocacy. How were these teachers compensated? Incredibly poorly.

How To 70

How To System Classroom Twitter 70

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum also engages students in historical inquiry around both U.S. and world history events.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Personalized Learning 96

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What are the new trends in libraries? Newsletters Why : Advocacy, community connections, sharing resources, showcasing student work How : Wakelet , Padlet , Smore , Google Slides, PPT “A newsletter is a wonderful way of advocating [for your library], Holzweiss said. Who is the modern librarian?

Libraries 98

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets. The trend peaked during the recession that began in 2008, when UC hiked undergraduate tuition by nearly a third in a single year. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5

Education 96

Education Policies Course System 96

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. Otho Tucker, CEO of Lake Oconee Academy.

Report 112

Report Company Data Meeting 112

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Educause has submitted a $55,000 offer to acquire the assets of the now defunct New Media Consortium , court documents reveal.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” More via Edsurge.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

A child’s experiences not only determine what information enters her brain, but also influence how her brain processes information,” explains a succinct and well-documented summary of the first three years of brain development posted by the Tennessee-based Urban Child Institute.

Report 86

Report Policies Data Trends 86

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” These have all been separate articles in each series. I touched on this topic briefly in a previous article on online education.).

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. And the trend is picking up momentum as the Trump administration and Congress seek to soften federal regulations that were beefed up during the Obama years. That was far below the state average.

Company 69

Company Industry Advocacy Report 69