Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2024

However, such turns of phrase often betray a tendency to think of “computers” and of “LOGO” as agents that act directly on thinking and learning; they betray a tendency to reduce what are really the most important components of educational situations — people and cultures — to a secondary, facilitating role. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That’s according to Matt Townsley, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Northern Iowa, who has written books about changing grading systems and who has helped schools switch to standards-based systems. And there’s a lack of, or not sufficient training on, what this is all about.”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

But new book due out this fall argues for the creation of colleges of many shapes and sizes, including a new set of low-cost options that are focused on helping students who just can’t afford a four-year campus experience get a first job. In the book I actually have a matrix where I say [the most important trait is selectivity].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

William Grube talks about ethical training and AI and what is happening now. gdonahue1811) July 25, 2023 AI and Book Trailers Samantha Green shared an Instagram account from secondary urban legends with some interesting videos about using AI. Adeel Khan advocates for AI change in education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was always eager for a new book, a new word, a new understanding, a new connection, a new… knowing. As book bans reach an all-time high, it is no surprise to me that a great percentage of the books challenged or banned are books that have protagonists and prominent secondary characters of color at the center of the story.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

Just because a mandate has been passed, it doesn’t mean there’s necessarily a plan for implementation, access to training or a repository of resources, all of which are necessary to put it into practice with fidelity. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As an aside, Fröbel is the guy that basically invented the concept of “kindergarten” and the one who first proposed that children have their own unique needs and abilities, which gives him +1,000 credibility points in my book. Brain training games. Well, you might be thinking: what does exercise have to do with the topic?

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2023

add caption here Perhaps the best example is a book written by two longtime professors called “The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention.” The professors channeled their longtime dissatisfactions into a sweeping plan for change, resulting in their book-length manifesto. My mom taught remedial reading, K-5.

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Accessibility Secondary Study Training 143

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

Thanks to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) and its $6.1 For some high schoolers, the answer was help with the SATs, employment guidance or even “Adulting 101”—training on financial literacy and how to file taxes, says Christine Cray, director of student services reforms at Pittsburgh Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Vocational-technical high schools — or “voc-techs” as they are known — combine academic classes with on-the-job technical training. percent statewide dropout rate, according to 2020-21 Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education data, and special needs students fare particularly well at voc-tech schools.

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Dropout Industry Secondary Elementary 99

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

So I think this needs to be a really, really big wake up call for folks across post-secondary education and training that if they’re not already focusing on parent learners, they need to be.”. Last fall, they hosted a book drive and then gave books to families based on their children’s ages.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

encouraging career development and planning (academic advising, school to post secondary or career transitions, and workforce effectiveness). tech training–school guidance counseling, like every other corner of education, is a lot techier than it used to be. urging students to stay in school. promoting character development.

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Digital Citizenship Guidelines Training Secondary 150

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2022

Effect of Classroom Learning Environment on Students' Academic Achievement in Mathematics at Secondary Level Riaz Hussain Malik and Asad Abbas Rizvi [link] Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning American Psychological Association. Stream by clicking here. Subscribe to the Show.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2019

Providing good information resources and the skill to use them is both a social goal as well as an economic imperative, with fewer and fewer jobs for those without training and skills. I had books at home and my parents subscribed to a daily newspaper and magazines. Our secondary school had a good library and a professional librarian.

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Libraries Secondary Social Media Accessibility 110

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Before school libraries would begin to morph into multimedia digital information centers, they supported student literacy-building practices by providing access to their on-site book collections. Teacher-Librarian – As teachers, librarians evaluate the best kind of learning practices for students, faculty and administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

We made a conscious decision to make the sixth-grade experience one where we expose children to everything,” said Rick Doss, the district’s director of secondary education. Jensen , a neurologist whose excellent book on adolescence has long been my guide. Related: What does career readiness look like in middle school?

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

In practice, this meant districts were all but forced to use their limited resources to support teacher training and adopt new curricular materials in the subjects that were federally tested, leaving little funding for social studies and the humanities.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 18, 2017

For the second year in the UK, secondary (high) school numbers have grown, and it's expected that over the next 8 years there will be a 19% rise in these numbers , with over 600,000 additional students. In many secondary schools, students are now being taught mathematics by teachers who are not qualified to do so.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Boston, an all-day training in a high school gym attracted about 100 educators for instruction in yoga, meditation and mindfulness, part of a 200-hour training offered on weekends by a company called Breathe For Change. Amy Martinez, English teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts, on why she values resilience training.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Gale’s 2023 MLA award wins were across its entire product portfolio of K-12, post-secondary and adult learning resources. These books have been proven to improve fluency, increase comprehension, and reduce anxiety in young readers. Thorndike has been amazing to work with and my students adore their large print books.

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Libraries Udemy Industry Secondary 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Gale’s 2023 MLA award wins were across its entire product portfolio of K-12, post-secondary and adult learning resources. These books have been proven to improve fluency, increase comprehension, and reduce anxiety in young readers. Thorndike has been amazing to work with and my students adore their large print books.

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Libraries Udemy Industry Secondary 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. Yo Books , a company from South Sudan, aims to deliver and distribute books on low-cost devices across remote regions. Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25.

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EdTech Pearson Company Industry 105

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. Toward the end of his secondary school experience, though, he shifted to “healing in the broader sense,” reading more deeply in the humanities. I had no professional training. I was lucky.

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Social Media Secondary Learning Libraries 102

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. The Giveaway Contest for Starr’s Book Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to be the Experts. Peer Feedback in the Classroom Book Giveaway. link] And I hope that if you guys follow me on Twitter you could get a copy of this book.

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Strategy Classroom Assessment BYOD 202

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

We Need Diverse Books. New Jersey's mandate is for secondary, but that doesn't mean we also don't want to start talking about these things in K-5. So, resources and training for teachers are also needed. I think of it as parallel train tracks. Kimberly Tew More about supporting LGBTQIA learning. Teaching Tolerance.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. There's a lot more competition and the boundaries between academic credit and noncredit training are blurring.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

About two weeks ago, via LinkedIn, I shared Josh Steimle’s book review of Susan Cain ’s bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. In her book , Cain explains, “At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. Written by: Robyn D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Photo: James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images.

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Competency Based Learning Training Secondary Report 94

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

To have access to high paying careers in the future requires some type of post-secondary education. Dr. Christine Johns For example, if I think of a student that has an interest in understanding how the heart works, we are not just reading out of a book and discussing how the heart functions. a high quality of life?

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Industry Case Study Technology STEM 139

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Students are given a book, which they can’t read. Teacher training programs do not provide training to deal with the challenge of illiteracy. An elementary, secondary and post-secondary school teacher, Patrick D. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Secondary Elementary Report Training 52

Shake Up Learning

JUNE 2, 2020

Join us for a FREE Shake Up Learning Book Study! During the COVID-19 emergency school closures, teachers had to learn on the fly and do the best that they could with no training or preparation. Self-directed and self-paced learning can also be helpful for secondary students or students who need less support. Starts June 18).

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Tools Google Secondary Online Learning 101

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Even so, many sessions—and the biggest rooms—were devoted to panels about corporate training and workforce development. Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 85

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions. JF – teacher leadership program – we’re doing PBL training for all teachers – I assumed they already knew and were doing it, had to start over and go slower. Iowa’s 25th place math ranking shows we have work to do.

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STEM Wiki Training Elementary 100

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Laura Fischer, VP, Learning Design & Content Development, Learning A-Z Looking ahead, I anticipate that in 2024 the generative AI training wheels will come off and propel adoption of this technology. This will necessitate a reevaluation of curricula, training methods, and the development of future-ready skills.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

MindShift

JUNE 17, 2021

You don’t really really learn anything unless you have it in your long-term memory,” says Barbara Oakley, co-author of the new book “ Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn.” Think of it as interval training for the brain, says Oakley. But memory is inextricably tied to learning.

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System How To Learning Study 55

TeacherCast

JANUARY 16, 2022

As noted in the book Coaching Matters , the Building Administrator must first be a “ Coaches Champion.” This not only takes the burden of doing this off the plate of central office staff, but also trains coaches to think at a higher altitude than they previously needed to when they were in the classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 4, 2020

LaVonna taught at the elementary and secondary levels and is the author of 8 books. She is trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and has experience in evidence-based, manualized treatments for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, parent-focused behavioral interventions for children with externalizing behavior problems (e.g.,

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