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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family Trainings or Workshops Even those who want to be involved in their child’s academics might not know where to start. As an educator, you can facilitate family trainings or workshops, like those offered by Waterford Family Academy. Social Media This method for connecting with families continues to grow in popularity.

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

Edsurge

These circumstances are squeezing the university programs that train future teachers. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Here’s how colleges are adapting to find and train the teachers of tomorrow. Student loans are scary. We don’t value education.”

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Inaugural Catalyze Challenge Winners To Transform Journey From Classroom To Career

eSchool News

BUILD supports students from 8th through 12th grade across the nation in building businesses and confidence to be successful with those businesses through an entrepreneurship program that provides mentors and training to set students up for success. Building 21 – Launchpad (Pennsylvania).

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. Twin bills introduced in Congress last year would expand that funding further by authorizing the Secret Service to set up a national program to research school violence prevention and provide training on the threat assessment process.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

My colleagues in the Open Education Group and I like to say that when you’re considering the outcomes of research on OER adoption, there are “two ways to win.” ” First, think about three possible outcomes of OER adoption in terms of change in cost and change in learning: Students save money and learn less.

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'I Learn Things on Twitter That I Don’t Learn at Harvard': Clint Smith on Inequality and Technology

Edsurge

Students didn’t have an understanding of the reason why their communities’ experienced disproportionate violence or is disproportionately impoverished or has such disparate health outcomes. I remember that when I was training as a teacher, there was very little instruction about that in my teacher prep courses.

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4 Ways to Make Sure Your Students Feel Their Degrees Are Worth the Cost (Part Two)

EdNews Daily

As the Stanford study found, coaching improves outcomes for all students , irrespective of age, gender, high-school grade-point average, SAT scores, and other demographic factors. By identifying which interventions will have the greatest opportunity to create positive outcomes, institutions can serve more students with the same resources.