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

Edsurge

Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology. Engage Edtech Employees in Extended Learning We call the program Freshman Seminar.

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

Edsurge

Policies At Big Universe, we developed SOPs (standard operating procedures) for every department, in the form of checklists, which served us well for employee onboarding and establishing norms for accountability, expectations and a reminder of what needs to be done when. We did semi-annual ones.)

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

The new superintendent, Stephen Guthrie, has tasked the equity group with reviewing the district’s policies, procedures and practices, with an eye toward equity. As schools seek to better serve an increasingly diverse student population and close racial achievement gaps, Sussex Tech offers a case study in culturally responsive practice.

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 2

Dangerously Irrelevant

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice. We dove deeper into ideas of intersectionality and seemed to dwell more on policy concerns in this particular class. Like in my other Master’s seminar this summer , my students have been amazing.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wu Jianzhong Successfully Promoting Your Print and eBook Collections Through Social Networking - Abbe Waldron, Library Media Specialist/Educational Technologist What about second year seminar? Yildiz, Faculty Come take a tour! Engaging students in a virtual setting.

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MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

The Hechinger Report

And it’s a case study in how rural families aspire to, fret about and often decide to forgo college. Outside the auditorium of the city’s Stone Memorial High School, Nae Evans Sims stopped and thought for a moment about the smallest community she’d ever visited as an admissions recruiter for Case Western Reserve University.

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. In an effort, perhaps, to demonstrate her commitment to the Obama Administration’s policies surrounding for-profits, Clinton named Rohit Chopra to her transition team.