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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Generative Textbooks

Iterating Toward Openness

For example, my son who is studying cybersecurity recently told me prompted ChatGPT along these lines: ‘You are the hiring manager for a cybersecurity position at a large company. My son tells me this exercise was incredibly helpful and he plans to do it several more times before having a “real” interview.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? I always look forward to this final exercise. The Freshman Seminar curriculum is publicly accessible, and aims to help any edtech company looking to help employees better understand the people they serve. (By Class Clowns ” by Jonathan A.

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How To Find a Job When You’re Not Looking

Edsurge

Companies are still hiring. Come join us for an evening of informal networking, panels with hiring companies, and some light bites. It only takes a few months of working in a corrosive environment to realize that organizational culture isn’t just the stuff of case studies. Looking to level up in your career? No worries!

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This app is designed to reduce job burnout—and it’s free for educators

eSchool News

An app that focuses on wellbeing exercises to reduce stress is being offered free. In its promotional materials, the company references a Gallup State of America’s Schools report that found nearly half of all K-12 teachers reported daily stress. Activities are designed to help educators decompress and reenergize.

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

Marketplace K-12

For companies that are interested in testing their products or doing research on granular content, we’ve now built a research engine that can be used for that,” said Elisabeth Stock, CEO and co-founder of PowerMyLearning, in an interview. All take a brief pre-exercise quiz to determine their level of knowledge of that skill before beginning.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

Miller’s first graders are a case study in the scale, depth and unevenness of learning loss during the pandemic. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading. Students work on a phonics activity during center time in Heather Miller’s classroom.