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As COVID relief spending deadlines loom, one district moves ahead with an uncommon tech plan

eSchool News

At a Dolton-Riverdale school board meeting in the spring, district leaders and two technology vendors pitched a $3.3 At the board meeting in March, Velocita and ViewSonic reps unveiled the “Flexible Classroom Learning & Alerting Solution,” which they said they had developed with district officials. million tech overhaul.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Three Digital Equity Leaders Call to Action for Students Without Home Internet Access

techlearning

The CoSN Meeting the Needs of Students Without Home Internet Access webinar on September 19, 2018 reflects the growing concern and call to action for school districts, business communities and state and federal government to address what has been termed as the homework gap. 1 at the elementary level.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

Graphite Blog

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How can families use Seesaw? What is Seesaw?

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Enter the #squadgoals Challenge

EdTechTeam

We know for many of you this is a time where you're meeting with your staff and colleagues to make big plans for the year. This past spring our District made the commitment to purchase Chromebooks for my site and we began to explore professional development for our staff. We also know that learning is always #bettertogether!

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10 Time-Saving Tips and Tools for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

You can find a complete list of Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts here for Windows, Mac, and Chromebooks. Google Keep is also a part of G Suite for Education and is a great tool for students, especially secondary students. Keep is also a great place to save your notes from staff meetings and professional development.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

As many experts will point out, DEI initiatives are prone to fail when they aren’t getting at the crux of the issue—existing systemic processes and challenges that prevent promising solutions and DEI-focused policies from being successful. Equity is meeting each individual student’s needs–their exact needs.