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Here’s How Modern Data Management Platforms Help K-12 Schools Get Work Done

EdTech Magazine

School systems are swimming in valuable data that potentially could be used to support students,” says Susan Bearden, former director of digital programs for InnovateEDU, a nonprofit educational organization that is home to the data advocacy group Project Unicorn.

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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

For many schools, this flies in the face of a traditional schooling mindset that was more geared to learners having to buy-in to a one-size-fits-all system where success was determined by how well everyone did under the same conditions more or less. How would you rate the level of learner advocacy in your school or district?

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How The English Language Learning System Is Failing in America

TeachThought - Learn better.

How The English Language Learning System Is Failing in America. During my seven years of teaching at Raven Elementary in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I saw a significant increase in the number of Hispanic students and ELL students, so I know the shortcomings of our system firsthand. Support Your ELL in a Flawed System.

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School Counselors Helping More Women Go Into Computer Science: Tips and Advice to Find the Fit

The CoolCatTeacher

So school counselors have this ability to look at the system as a whole and to support students. School counselors have this ability to look at the system as a whole. It’s a magazine called “Careers With Code.” ( [link] ). If you go to their website in the Shownotes, you can download a magazine that they have.

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Amid Child Care Crisis, New Head of NAEYC Pledges to Prioritize Listening and Inclusion

Edsurge

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. She referenced a TIME magazine cover story from February 1997, called “How a Child’s Brain Develops.” So Kang is listening.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

This highly interactive summit focuses on solution identification and team building in large school systems. . We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

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CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets

EdTech Magazine

This highly interactive summit focuses on solution identification and team building in large school systems. . We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.