The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools. You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen.

Policies 149

Policies Advocacy Conference Survey 149

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. One advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about this issue from September 2016 to December 2018, according to the complaint. Credit: Google Maps.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

As students enter upper elementary and middle school, the focus on executive function strategies declines, so students show up to high school, and don’t know how to take notes or study. Fostering a Culture That Promotes EF. The post Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture appeared first on edWeb.

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Schoology Advocacy LMS Strategy 53

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

in elementary education from the University of Virginia. Tim, a veteran educator of over 20 years, has a background as a high school social studies teacher, is a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader, and a Google Certified Trainer. In 2010, he was hired by Albemarle County Public Schools as an instructional technology specialist.

Broadband 54

Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard ” or. Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. In today’s episode, she talks about the transformation, why they needed change, and implementing successful change. Congress to accelerate innovation in education.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 194

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception. Students can jump into a quick counseling session to help them get back on track.

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Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 123

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. What works for a high school in a major urban area may not fit the needs of a rural elementary school. on March 18, 2020. The Richmond (Va.)

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In T&L’s first Google+ Leader Community Hangout, we discussed how district leaders are implementing SEL initiatives. We now work with the Panorama survey tool as it is much better than Google Survey. It was run by our elementary school guidance counselor.

Survey 45

Survey Advocacy Training Exercises 45

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Nine other elementary schools in our district also read the book. We decided that at the end of our school-level book clubs, we would use Skype and Google Hangouts to connect our schools together across the district so that our students could talk to one another. We used Google Hangouts and a set of slides to guide our conversations.

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Elementary Groups Google Meeting 47

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 132

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

For her DIY approach, We use videos, QR codes, a Google Form and Flubaroo to introduce freshmen to our high school library. These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. This gets the job done while allowing the students to move around and cooperate.

Libraries 54

Libraries Gamification iPhone Advocacy 54

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

EdTech 95

EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 95

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. SHOW LINK BIO: Rebecca’s dedication to exceptional learners started in elementary school when she was a “special friend” to the mainstream class. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children.

Classroom 36

Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

The result was a tool called Learning Lists, which was prototyped by one of the school’s math teachers in 2013 using spreadsheet features on Google Sheets. In order to target these deficiencies, LPS launched a new math course to help students who were performing below grade level get back on track.

Technology 40

Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In a survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led advocacy group, gun violence ranked as teachers’ No. Lockdown instructions posted in Nivia Vizurraga’s elementary school classroom. She currently teaches K-5 special education at an elementary school in Reseda, California. 1 school safety concern.

Elementary 46

Elementary Survey Report Advocacy 46

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Jenny Lussier, Cathy Potter, Shawna Ford, Kathy Kaldenberg, and I created the very first Picture Book Smackdown which was held via Google Hangout on November 21, 2013. Barrow Elementary in Athens, GA (facilitated by Andy Plemmons). Authors Laurel Snyder and Ame Dyckman joined us as well.

Social Media 46

Social Media Libraries Elementary Twitter 46

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Readers don’t even need their library card—they can use their school Google accounts to access both our district and public libraries. Using data for advocacy Increasing funding to expand our collection of audiobooks is just one example of the many ways we’re using data for advocacy.

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Data Advocacy Libraries eBook 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

She is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 Under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. Department of Education.

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Conference Secondary Study Digital Badges 31

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 Her commitment and advocacy drove the expansion of Hazel services to include both in-home and at-school mental health support, plus the addition of elementary schools to the program. million in ESSER funds being allocated to school libraries to complete a three-year collection redevelopment project.

Edmentum 123

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 123

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

My name is Andy Plemmons, school library media specialist at David C Barrow Elementary in Athens GA @barrowmediacenter I will take over the DOE account this week. The Barrow Spelling Bee is held in the library and broadcast to the school and families through Google Hangouts on Air.

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Robotics Libraries Social Media Education 28

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Barrow Elementary in Athens, GA. During a smackdown, we hold a Youtube Live event where students and authors in multiple states book talk as many picture books as possible across 45-60 minutes. This year’s smackdown featured students in 4 different grades in 3 different states, which included: Andy Plemmons and students at David C.

Libraries 36

Libraries Elementary Advocacy Google 36

Reading By Example

APRIL 2, 2016

In our Title I elementary school in Central Wisconsin, we have had students preview the computerized assessment. We are using Google Sites for this process. Testing season is upon us. The Chromebooks have been configured and the wireless tested. All of our students except one: My son.

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Chromebook Assessment Elementary Google 28

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

Industry 141

Industry STEM Education Survey 141

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Google search links secret, court-protected names to online coverage | Ottawa Citizen → Computer experts believe it’s an unintended, “mind-boggling” consequence of Google search algorithms. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Google search links secret, court-protected names to online coverage | Ottawa Citizen → Computer experts believe it’s an unintended, “mind-boggling” consequence of Google search algorithms. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. These days we do a lot of workshops and special projects around freedom of information and privacy issues and advocacy work because that act was passed back in 1992. So some updates are in order.

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Data Learning Advocacy System 150

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Listen on A pple Podcasts , Google Play , NPR One , Stitcher , Spotify , TuneIn or wherever you get your podcasts. . At 11 years old, she enrolled in Lockwood Elementary, a flatlands school in East Oakland. At Markham Elementary School in East Oakland, just three percent of kids are meeting state reading standards.

Advocacy 62

Advocacy Elementary Meeting Report 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

My New York State friends shared that a highlight among the resources shared at the Summer Institute was Sharon Fox’s (Tuxedo Union Free School District) lesson plan documents, made so easily available in her shared Google Drive folders. I tinkered with my Excel knowledge and figured out how to create drop-down menus in Google Sheets.

Digital Citizenship 76

Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL), stated, “We were not as prepared as we could have been to have made that shift in terms of our practices and pedagogy.” CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Learning 78

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 78

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

He received his bachelor’s degree from The University of Southern Mississippi in elementary education. Dr. Dillon has taught in elementary and junior high schools and coached on the high school level. Matthew Dillon is a native of Columbia, Mississippi. He received his M.Ed. from The University of Mississippi in educational leadership.

Broadband 97

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Marczak was the assistant superintendent in Oak Ridge Schools in Tennessee, a district lead principal with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, an elementary principal, and an elementary teacher with Wilson County Schools and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

BYOD 54

BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

This is really for all learners—adults as well as students—not just for those students with disabilities,” said Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL). Kelley is superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, a PreK–8 public school system in Oak Park, IL, with 6,150 students. Dr. Carol L.

Accessibility 55

Accessibility Digital Badges Elementary BYOD 55

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Matt is grateful for his supportive family—son Mason, an aerospace engineer in Florida, and daughter Jessica, an elementary teacher in northern Cincinnati. In 2007, he was the first educational leader to bring Google for Education into a K-12 school setting. Dr. Michelle Reid is now serving in her 42nd year in K-12 education.

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Strategy System Data BYOD 84

edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

Over the past 30 years, he has held leadership positions at the high, middle, and elementary levels in Salem City Schools and is currently in his 15th school year as Division Superintendent. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Learning 54

Learning Blended Learning BYOD Professional Learning 54