Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For years, the parent advocacy group worked tirelessly to influence education policy and practices in Oakland. Young had already built considerable credibility with the district through earlier advocacy work and a city-wide literacy campaign conducted by the parent-powered organization.

Advocacy 168

Advocacy Trends Groups Meeting 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s no secret that the education system is struggling to adapt to the new digital risks that come with its rushed switch to digital forced by the pandemic. A new annual review by the nonprofit advocacy group Data Quality Campaign dug into the new legislation to see what’s new and if it's moving in the right direction. What’s Next?

Data 133

Data Advocacy Policies Trends 133

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Too often, though, that advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access despite state and local policies. Too often, advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access. Advocating for policy change is essential.

Advocacy 96

Advocacy Policies Education Course 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

Digital Divide 93

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 93

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

School systems, such as rules, policies, and procedures, can cause trauma and harm, for example, harsh discipline policies that refer children to the criminal justice system for behavior in school. Teachers, myself included, often feel like they have to go against the school system in order to support their students.

Policies 151

Policies Advocacy Examples System 151

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It has also forced school leaders to become more creative, outspoken and innovative in their advocacy and leadership—lessons they will take with them to help drive change in 2021. The virtual nature of our education system today has allowed many to extend their reach even further, beyond the confines of their state.

Learning 189

Learning Assessment Advocacy System 189

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For example: The school has on-campus showers, food pantries, licensed clinicians and social programs. That means building a standalone community because, she says, it’s hard for students who don’t have homes to be themselves in the mainstream American school system. It's a bright, beautiful, colorful, joyful place,” DeVries adds.

Advocacy 178

Advocacy Outcomes Report Study 178

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students. Thanks to the leadership of Laura Fleming we implemented a micro-credential system to acknowledge the informal learning of our teachers and administrators.

Advocacy 178

Advocacy Digital Badges Education Meeting 178

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example: Eighth graders saw a large drop, in math scores especially. This year’s NAEP results confirm the absence of political will in the last two years to do anything revolutionary to change the trajectory for our children’s futures,” a statement from Memphis Lift and Nashville Propel, two Tennessee-based parent advocacy groups said.

Report 149

Report Assessment Broadband Advocacy 149

N2Y

MAY 13, 2021

For example, transition services and goals can address areas that include: Communication. For example, rules are in place that dictate how many hours a person may work if they are receiving SSI, Medicaid, or Medicare. Transition planning made easy with Unique Learning System. Daily living skills. Employment opportunities.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy System Outcomes Training 87

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 200

Advocacy Survey System Industry 200

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

KMSD knows that innovation and change, however, are not sustainable without systemic buy-in at all levels. Deklotz and her team are committed to setting up teachers with the resources they need to be successful, providing extensive and differentiated professional development opportunities through the district’s micro-credentialing system.

Social Media 244

Social Media Education Advocacy Personalized Learning 244

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2024

Then they must provide permission for FAFSA systems to obtain their tax information from the IRS. Students who are permanent residents, for example, have struggled to enter their information on the form after entering their green card number. Many other parents and students have also been struggling to submit their information.

Accessibility 81

Accessibility Advocacy Social Media Report 81

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What if, as faculty, you were leveraging the power that you have to identify and push for solutions, changes in how the system operates? What if, as faculty, you were leveraging the power that you have to identify and push for solutions, changes in how the system operates?” “A lot of us were in that situation at one point or another.”

Advocacy 173

Advocacy Survey Study System 173

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, educators who want to help students understand solutions to climate change can take their classroom on a virtual field trip to Boeing’s base in Seattle via the ecoAction Virtual Field Trip. For example, teachers can use VR to simulate extreme weather conditions that affect drivers like snow, heatwaves, and flooding.

STEM 115

STEM Advocacy Digital Learning Examples 115

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. But it’s not just the school systems.

Report 153

Report Conference Survey Advocacy 153

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For example, Georgia State University, which serves many students of color and low-income students, has improved its graduation rate by investing in academic advising and a predictive analytics system that identifies students who may be struggling.

Advocacy 183

Advocacy Policies Course Accessibility 183

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

Survey 178

Survey Advocacy Study Social Media 178

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. These basic tenets can guide our stance: 1.

EdTech 316

EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 316

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

But for those of us who want our ideas to spread and who actually want to influence practicing educators and educational systems, participating in these online spaces is critically important. Tales of “Bad Twitter” are legion, for example. Not every scholar or educator wants to be a public intellectual.

Social Media 262

Social Media Advocacy Twitter Facebook 262

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. For example, we asked from the very beginning—and indeed throughout our nine-year effort— “What is best for ALL of our kids, especially those furthest from opportunity now?” We did get the balance right.

Policies 181

Policies Advocacy Strategy Groups 181

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

Advocacy 137

Advocacy Data Trends Report 137

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Creating computational models that use data and algorithms to simulate complex systems. For example, when a hurricane is approaching, a meteorologist on TV may use a computational model to demonstrate the various paths that the storm may take as any number of interdependent variables change.

Education 271

Education Advocacy Data Report 271

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Fast forward to September 2022, and I am finalizing modules on Canvas, our learning management system, to continue to deliver the same quality professional learning, but in an entirely different format.

Professional Learning 202

Professional Learning Elementary Meeting Survey 202

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For example, kids with a stutter or kids that may walk or talk differently than their neurotypical peers often get mimicked, which could actually be a violation of federal civil rights laws related to disability-based harassment.” Students with disabilities often get bullied more than their peers without a disability.

Advocacy 132

Advocacy Case Study Study Elementary 132

Waterford

APRIL 10, 2020

Self-care activities can be small- to large-scale habits, with examples ranging from packing a healthy lunch to waking up early every day to do a mindfulness meditation before work. People in caregiving positions like teachers, for example, often find it easier to tell others to take care of their health than to do so themselves.[7]

How To 360

How To Handbook Strategy Advocacy 360

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For someone who is regularly sounding the alarm on urgent issues plaguing the field of early childhood education, from system-wide dysfunction to poor working conditions to uncompetitive pay, we wondered: Why climate change? A good example is air pollution. So there are ways we can build resilience into systems.

System 156

System Advocacy Groups Conference 156

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It is time for our public systems to recognize the value of home-based child care for the millions of families that choose it, and compensate providers fairly for their work. Related: Our fragile child care ‘system’ may be about to shatter. In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for example, the state provides just $13.63

Advocacy 109

Advocacy System Trends Industry 109

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

Here are two examples that illustrate the possibilities youth organizing can offer for classroom teachers. Creating more immigrant-friendly schools requires systemic policy changes at the district and city levels; it also requires shifting teacher practices to build empathy, understanding and support for immigrant students.

Classroom 173

Classroom Advocacy Groups Meeting 173

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Educational stakeholders, according to Ferrero, fall into three categories: “Professionals” (which include teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs and reformers), “Provocateurs” (including journalists, politicians and advocacy groups), and “People” (including students, parents and taxpayers), all of which interact in complex and dynamic ways.

Technology 140

Technology Education Advocacy Academic Standards 140

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

UDL 168

UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 168

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

The pathway for kindergarten math displayed on the cover of one binder, for example, begins on a lower left square featuring a giant “20” and the statement, “I can count to 20.” Teachers used those colorful pathways in a competency-based system to track what each student had learned — and hadn’t learned — in real time.

Competency Based Learning 141

Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 141

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy.

OER 112

OER Advocacy Policies Libraries 112

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2023

For example, its annual Homecoming celebrations were hard to pull off virtually, she says. 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. None of them speak ‘Black space.’

Education 159

Education Course Blackboard System 159

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. A study of CUNY, a minority-serving system, reported that only 10 percent of students participated in paid internships during college. There are remedies to this problem.

Education 85

Education Advocacy Mobility Report 85

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English. What is exciting is several states, including Ohio and Oregon as good examples, are looking at different configurations for getting all students engaged in mathematics by creating new curriculum pathways.

Robotics 98

Robotics Industry Elementary Training 98

Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

Connecting secure datasets such as absenteeism and homework completion with formative mathematics assessments, for example, allows educators to consider why issues may be happening, decide on a course of supportive action, and then use data to determine effectiveness. Here are some examples. Ensuring internet access outside of school.

Accessibility 335

Accessibility Technology E-rate Data 335