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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

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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?”

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Fighting Exclusion: Shake Up Inclusive Learning – SULS0164

Shake Up Learning

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in.

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Student Engagement and Closing the Opportunity Gap: An Action Plan, Part 2

Reading By Example

It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. In order to increase trust in the instructional walk process, I had our faculty participate in an article study in order to develop the tenets of student engagement. They could post their questions via a Google Form about a topic or tool. Routman, p.

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Student Engagement and Closing the Opportunity Gap: An Action Plan, Part 2

Reading By Example

It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. In order to increase trust in the instructional walk process, I had our faculty participate in an article study in order to develop the tenets of student engagement. They could post their questions via a Google Form about a topic or tool. Routman, p.

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Why Teacher-Driven Coaching Looks Different for Every Learner

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James looked ahead at his curriculum to where he could use tools to maximize student collaboration and highlight student voice—two of his major objectives. At best, this work challenges teachers to engage in conversations about student expectations, routines and procedures, and relationships with students that are built on trust.

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Current Trends in Education

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Innovative K-12 education ideas are crucial for creating engaging, effective, and future-ready learning environments. Here are a few new innovations in education: Project-Based Learning (PBL) Studios: Establishing project-based learning studios where students engage in hands-on, interdisciplinary projects.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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SXSW EDU Launch Competition Judge Tony will try his best Judy Judy impersonation, as he joins Bridge Burns (University Innovation Alliance), Vince Chan (Creta Ventures) and Jonathan Rochelle (Google) to dispense advice and feedback for eight companies pitching their wares. Students’ Safety or Privacy? Join us for a slice of the action!