Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. It’s so much more time consuming to read everyone’s comments on discussion boards,” wrote one teacher after completing a survey Scheetz administered following an asynchronous PD session.

Professional Learning 202

Professional Learning Elementary Meeting Survey 202

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

Advocacy 174

Advocacy Survey Study System 174

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Advocacy 201

Advocacy Survey System Industry 201

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2022

Tommy Sheridan, the deputy director of the National Head Start Association (NHSA), a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, was hearing stories about just how challenging it is to be in early childhood education right now. And it’s not because of COVID-19—not directly, anyway.

Report 154

Report Conference Survey Advocacy 154

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Synchrony has conducted listening sessions and surveys with employees at all levels, including call center employees, to find out pressing child care needs. Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions. That has led the company to expand its child care benefits. on the impact of the U.S.

Policies 191

Policies Company Survey Industry 191

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Consider that the annual cost of K-12 special education is nearly three times that of “general education”: $26,000 vs. $9,000 per student in California, for example. Yale professor Dr. Walter Gilliam recently surveyed 50,000 preschool teachers across the country. However, societal savings considerably outweigh the initial costs.

Education 201

Education Survey Advocacy Outcomes 201

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Supporting and expanding these initiatives through advocacy and philanthropy would directly benefit the completion rates of historically marginalized students. Other programs, like ASAP and ACE , have helped to significantly improve degree completion at associate and baccalaureate colleges.

Education 82

Education Advocacy Mobility Report 82

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. After facilitating each PD session, Hurh sends out a survey to attendees.

Training 154

Training Advocacy Resources Instructional Materials 154

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 21, 2019

OER advocacy, like most work, is filled alternately with advances and setbacks. For example, I’ve been co-writing OER textbooks with students since my Spring 2005 course Advanced Topics in Learning Object Design and Reuse, followed by Project Management for Instructional Designers , and then An Open Education Reader.

OER 115

OER Advocacy Survey Course 115

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

By July 2021, 72 percent of undergraduates said that their awareness of social justice issues had increased over the preceding year, and just under half reported that their involvement in social justice efforts was impacting their career choices, according to a survey by Best Colleges.

Study 119

Study Analysis Advocacy Training 119

MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

Yet, surveys show that roughly 25% of employees identify as disabled or having a health condition that impacts their lives. For example, the larger font sizes on your slide deck benefit those with low vision but also those sitting at the back of the room, who forgot their glasses, or who have a headache. Own the labor.

Education 52

Education Advocacy Accessibility Policies 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

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.

Report 129

Report Training Elementary Strategy 129

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. Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Deb : Definitely.

Study 99

Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Later, during an afternoon session, Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education policy at Temple University, shared findings from a 2017 study that found more than half of the 33,000 students surveyed were housing insecure, while 56 percent face food insecurity and 14 percent are homeless. “We

Strategy 111

Strategy Policies Advocacy Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

More than a third of bachelor’s degree recipients nationwide said in a Gallup survey that they would go back and change their major if they could. More than eight out of 10 first-year students say getting a good job is why they are pursuing a degree , according to a national survey by a research institute at UCLA. “I

Survey 141

Survey Study Report Advocacy 141

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. According to data in the most widely cited survey , 26.5% For example, in Robinson et al. One example of a study with stronger controls is Allen, Guzman-Alvarez, Molinaro, and Larsen (2015).

OER 147

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, a recommendation to provide staff with a technology needs assessment contains a link to a National Center for Technology Planning survey questionnaire. Travis Rink, an assistant high school principal who also manages Boxlight’s global training as the educator advocacy leader.

How To 75

How To Advocacy Tools Survey 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

A sample contract on the Back a Boiler website, for example, notes that “ This is not a loan or credit.”. But payment caps can be as high as three times the funded amount, according to a 2020 report by the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group.

Company 70

Company Report Survey Industry 70

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Isolated from their friends and teachers, many students cited “feeling depressed, stressed, or anxious” as the number one obstacle to learning, according to a new survey by YouthTruth, a national nonprofit that focuses on student voices in education. Each of the school’s 327 students is assigned to one of the three social workers.

Technology 123

Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 123

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia. Example #1: An autistic student using VR. Example #2: VR and Beowulf. Example #3: A student designing fashion in VR. Example #4: Pam’s experience in VR with Field Trips.

Education 250

Education Examples Maker Movement Company 250

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy.

Advocacy 53

Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

For example, as I described in my book, one group of students at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Ill., While many of the examples are about giving time or money, any of them can be expanded into larger efforts for substantive change. Have students work in small groups to create draft surveys. Another resource?

Advocacy 69

Advocacy Examples Survey Groups 69

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

A Hechinger survey of 36 states found just one, Oklahoma, that requires data on shortened school days to be reported in such a way that state officials can track it. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

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?”

Company 144

Company Assessment Report Gamification 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it. The more examples we have, the easier it gets, because I don’t have to be the messenger.

Blended Learning 81

Blended Learning Survey Advocacy Meeting 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Example of a letter sent home to students in a California experiment that failed to boost attendance rates. Lee, and Todd Rogers Example of a letter that didn’t motivate students to attend school more in a California experiment. . The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

Study 81

Study Groups Advocacy Conference 81

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Training 148

Training Trends Social Media Policies 148

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different.

Chromebook 194

Chromebook Study Company Assessment 194

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

Training 111

Training Report Survey Strategy 111

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

Elementary 190

Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 190

MindShift

JUNE 23, 2021

For example, if he assigned a quiz, students were able to have unlimited retakes. For one assessment, he had students draw from their personal experience and use their advocacy skills to write a letter to the district superintendent about whether they wanted the school building to open or stay closed. .

Strategy 43

Strategy Conference STEM Advocacy 43

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. He suggested, for example, that teachers could email students a video link to a news report of a controversial issue, or a historical documentary, along with a few key questions and a post-viewing writing prompt. “For

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. When schools reopen, they might do so with a different schedule: four days a week of in-person education and one virtual day, for example. Credit: Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

Digital Divide 116

Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 116

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

A survey by the nonprofit advocacy group Achieve found that nearly 80 percent of university and college faculty and two-thirds of employers think high schools do a poor job of preparing their graduates in areas including work habits, writing, and the ability to read and understand complex information. Jobs for the Future.

Survey 40

Survey Course Advocacy Report 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It A slow walk for example, does little to make anyone smarter. In Wisconsin, for example, the state education department oversees a program called Core 4+, which features inexpensive interventions to increase movement throughout the school day.

Exercises 105

Exercises Elementary Report Study 105