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

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A study by the International Workplace Group estimates that 50 percent of people globally work outside their headquarters for at least 2.5 We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. We used Skype for our daily/weekly, 1-on-1 and group meetings. days each week. We did semi-annual ones.)

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U.S. Dept. of Ed. Unveils Free Online Tool for Rapid Evaluation of Edtech Products

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Fast-forward to now, and the Office of Edtech is unveiling a solution that policy research organization Mathematica created with support from the government. “[We want to] establish a standard for low-cost, quick turnaround evaluations of apps, and field test rapid-cycle evaluations,” Culatta wrote in last year’s call-to-arms.

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S'Cool Tools, Teacher Voice Edition: IXL, Brightspace, Tales2Go

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If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. use ixl as whole group a small portion of the time. In addition, it would be great if the system would work well with Google Tools (i.e. Dawn’s district as a 1:1 device policy and uses project-based learning.

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To un-muzzle upstart Negros, we need black-owned news media

The Hechinger Report

Over the decades, journalism’s power has eroded, buffeted by the rise of the Internet, the wide availability of free content, and the siphoning of advertising dollars by Internet giants Facebook and Google. Influence on policy should not be reserved for wealthy elites who can sway public opinion with the stroke of a pen on a checkbook.

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Presenters - Please Check Your Instructions Presenters: make sure you have joined the presenter group on the site, that you have read carefully the instructions there and in the emails that have been sent to you, and that you have taken or watched the training (critical).

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To solve for ALL kids, start with ONE…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. A case study on creating change, one name at a time. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play. Listen to the audio below, .

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.