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And the winners of the 2023 K-12 Hero Awards are…

eSchool News

Winner: Dr. Jesus Jara, Superintendent, Clark County School District Nominated by: Edmentum Dr. Jesus Jara is a passionate educator who serves as superintendent of Clark County School District (CCSD), the 5th-largest school district in the nation, educating more than 300,000 students–64 percent of the student population in Nevada.

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How to Get the Most Out Of Practice Testing

Georgia Test Prep

A trained guide gives you a brief history of archery, shows you how to hold a bow and notch an arrow, and teaches you how to fire an arrow. The post How to Get the Most Out Of Practice Testing appeared first on. Imagine taking an archery workshop. Does that make you an archer? It will only provide the base.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

As founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics, Livingston has spent the better part of two decades thinking about how to get edtech innovations to the students who need them most. How much voice do teachers really have when it comes to how edtech products—the ones that are put to use in their classrooms—are developed?

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

Hack Education

. “ Three Ways You Can Harness Personalized Learning to Promote a Growth Mindset ” (that’s sponsored content from Edmentum). ” “ How to Measure Success Without Academic Achievement.” I wrote about this company, along with its better known competitor ClassDojo, in an article in The Baffler.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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