ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . Texas schools are facing two challenges that Commissioner Morath focused on: .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In most cases, schools are turning to third parties for help building out their core and non-core content right now, said Allison Powell, VP for new learning models at iNACOL , the nonprofit blended learning advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

We all just have to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of the children.”. We all just have to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of the children.”. Magee said she now has enough laptops to allow every child in the school to be able to practice on one. That’s what the state has put in place.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. We’re just trying to make ends meet with what we’ve got.”. “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”. We’re in … survival mode,” he said.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Hampton school making do without stolen laptops | Daily Press → After 100 laptops were stolen from George P. Phenix PreK-8 School over the summer, the students who were supposed to use them are making do. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Hampton school making do without stolen laptops | Daily Press → After 100 laptops were stolen from George P. Phenix PreK-8 School over the summer, the students who were supposed to use them are making do. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. She finds the program gives her extra time to meet individual kids’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She launched Girlstart At Home in April 2020, beginning with weekly Zoom meetings aimed at maintaining relationships with girls already in their program.

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The Daring Librarian

JULY 3, 2010

right laptop scrolling thumb is numb and even feels broken! Too many scheduling conflicts.Breakfasts, Advocacy, & committee meetings during the same time as presentations and sessions. Loopy (AKA Doug Valentine, whom I’d never before met), a couple of super-wonderful administrators brought by Shannon Miller."

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. In each school year we analyzed, more than 8,000 districts did not meet the one-in-20 guideline. No, he was fine.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Hanging on an office door in Hawthorn Hall, for example, is a pastel-colored advertisement from Student Support Services inviting Latinx students to stop by for help with academic advising, tutoring and mentoring, book and laptop loan programs and financial literacy education. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

Over the last ten years, Dr. Van Heukelum has secured over $15 million in grants for innovative ideas that meet the emerging needs of our future society. Today, Ann works as a public speaker, writer, and education consultant focused on leadership to meet the needs of today’s students.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Next, once the mission is clear, leaders should work with the tech team and teachers to ensure that the technology will meet those goals. Leaders need to make sure that lawmakers and board members see the tech plan as a long-term, sustainable project and not just a one-off purchase of laptops.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

CLEARONE COLLABORATE SPACE ( www.clearone.com ) ClearOne unveiled COLLABORATE Space, a video collaboration app that connects hundreds of users joining from any device, anytime, and anywhere, and includes messaging, calling, and meeting functions. NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. Spectrum Industries Inc.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” The things you actually care about in smartphones or search engines or laptops happen far above the level of the kernel. Sounding familiar yet?).

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Under his leadership, Bristol Tennessee City Schools has embraced personalized learning through an effort that includes providing laptops for students to use at school and at home. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for Internet speed. A more nuanced view of how blended learning is working in India can be seen in a 2015 report done by the membership and advocacy group CoSN.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One recent spring afternoon, about a dozen Northern Cass students working on laptops made themselves comfortable in a large classroom with mobile furniture, beanbag pillows and a plush blue couch. When you meet somebody and ask how old their kids are, they say, oh, they’re in third grade or fourth grade,” noted Phillips of ExcelinEd.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. The school director, Kevin Bock, stood by the door. “We Choi wouldn’t put a target on further expansion.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Upon completion of the course, students receive an “Advocacy Plan,” which outlines their strengths and challenges and makes recommendations to consider and is shared with their educators. It was designed to meet the needs of larger classrooms while still remaining compact and lightweight. inches in size.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

He’s had to buy personal protective equipment for staff and laptops for around 28,000 teenagers. That sounds like a lot of money, but if you think about buying a laptop for nearly 30,000 teenagers … that, in and of itself, is your entire stimulus money,” he said. This story also appeared in USA Today. Travers said.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 18, 2021

I was introduced to Gerardo’s work through a podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Adams called “Too Dope Teachers,” and his advocacy for equity and antiracism. And the types of academic and social-emotional practices that simply don’t meet the needs of most students. No matter what I was working on, close the laptop.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

(AP) – One Thursday morning in May, instead of sitting at a desk in her sixth-grade classroom in the Oregon mountains, Khloe Warne sat at a table in her mother’s bakery, doing her schoolwork on a laptop and watching her favorite clips of anime. But it took months of meetings to bump her up to five days a week, Chelsea Rasmussen said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

With almost 1,200 — or one in five — of the county’s residents out of work, the demand for food assistance has escalated in a community where thousands of families already struggled to make ends meet before the virus came here. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

SAN DIEGO — In the main room of a onetime fraternity house at the edge of San Diego State University, a small group of students labors quietly, laser-focused, over textbooks and laptops. But he spent up to 55 hours a week tending bar, tech advising and working construction to make ends meet, on top of taking a full load of classes. “A

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. I made a suggestion, and they just glossed over it,” said Eastin of a meeting during that time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. Not getting into the classes he needs is a big fear for student James Soberano, a San Jose State freshman majoring in computer engineering who was pecking away at his laptop in the student center. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” .” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is launching DeVos Watch , an initiative to hold the Department of Education “accountable.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

The Democratic platform states that charter schools should be authorized if they do not “replace and destabilize” existing public schools, a tough standard to meet. Not public and private, but rich and poor,” the former with laptops for all, the latter with metal detectors at school entrances.

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