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Case Study: Clark County School District

Education Superhighway

An initial needs assessment by CCSD found that 70,000 respondents did not have a device, 18,000 did not have Internet access, and 120,000 did not respond at all. Empowering call agents to walk families through the entire sign-up process was critical to reaching the initiative’s outcomes-oriented goal of connecting homes.

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Using universal screening to improve student well-being

eSchool News

As Martin Seligman , the father of positive psychology, said: “I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease, but I think that is literally half-baked. District officials read guidance from the National Center for School Mental Health and SAMHSA to really understand how to start.

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How to Build an Online Learning Program Students Crave and Employers Want

Edsurge

Real world problems are exciting to solve but devilishly hard to assess, especially when there are many students involved. We use the Möbius Assessment platform from DigitalEd to tie all the various assets of our courseware together for assessment purposes. This vastly increased the validity and authenticity of our assessments.

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Active Learning Strategies for Students

eSchool News

By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom learning, active learning strategies for students promote student-centered learning environments that enhance academic outcomes and cultivate lifelong learning skills. What are some active study strategies?

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What Students Are Doing Is Remote Learning, Not Online Learning. There’s a Difference.

Edsurge

Here’s science, here’s math… How am I supposed to know how to transform an improper fraction… If we don’t die of coronavirus, we’ll die of distance learning.” No matter how well designed, at any time during such a course, students have the choice to open a new app or browser or put the phone down. I can’t read music!

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

He also shares how the district uses case management technology to track these interventions, support clinicians and help assess when students need help—and when they don't. We collected data around the frequency of certain behaviors, who was receiving treatments, how much treatment and then the outcome of the treatment.

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Your Device Rollout Isn’t About Hardware—It’s About Engagement

Edsurge

New research coming out of the University of Roehampton in London shows that there’s critical work to be done to support administrators in attaining deeper student engagement with devices, which is essential in driving meaningful outcomes with subsequent new initiatives.