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SETDA Launches Cybersecurity Resource Focused on Small, Rural, and Under-resourced Districts

eSchool News

In collaboration with Microsoft and the K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX), this initiative underscores SETDA’s commitment to providing essential tools and guidance to support state educational agencies. Microsoft is committed to increasing access to cybersecurity tools to help schools address this challenge.

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?Without Addressing Basic Needs, Student Success Strategies Fall Short

Edsurge

As massive tech companies like Microsoft increase their footprint in the region, housing prices have soared and members of the community—including students, faculty and other staff members—are struggling to afford to stay at the institution. “I’d Examples of what that might look like already exist at some campuses.

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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests

The Hechinger Report

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. “With employers fielding a lot more applicants, how do we help create equitable processes for people at the top of the funnel?”

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Effective Advocacy. They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it. And it’s not only “newer” companies like Google or Facebook. Open Up Resources and EngageNY).

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. Adjusting Expectations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children. She’s a Buncee Ambassador, Nearpod PioNear, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Google Certified Educator Levels I and II.

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Critical Thinking in Academia and Calling a Spade a Spade

RafranzDavis.com

It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. Microsoft needed to hear that their collaboration tools sucked in order to begin to work out why. It was as if the life was sucked from my body in one 3 inch metal ring swoop.