eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Tampa, FL – September 29, 2021 – Tech & Learning, an industry-leading education outlet, has named Vector Solutions’ Student Safety & Wellness Courses a winner in its 2021 Awards of Excellence Back to School. The courses won in the Secondary Education category, which recognizes products used in grades 6-12.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community. If you're ready to take a free course on how to center students in your classroom with modern pedagogy, join Modern Classrooms at coolcatteacher.com/modern. Thank you for listening.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2022

Advancement Courses for Your Summer PD. Last summer I took my professional development with Advancement Courses and I am so glad that I did! All of the course ideas come from the advancement courses catalog. Learn about some courses you might want to take and some things that you need to do this summer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Advancement Courses - Podcast Sponsor. Advancement Courses is my preferred professional development provider. Last year when I needed to take a college CEU course, I chose Advancement Courses and learned so much about teaching computer science in the classroom. Click Here to Look at Courses. Subscribe to the Show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2023

Meet the Money Monsters stories introduce elementary aged students to ideas, habits, and activities that they'll need as you grow up and start to manage money. His course, Self Help Homework Hacks << [link] >>, allows students ages 13-22 to learn research-backed homework hacks and independent learning strategies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

So while I could ask it about how the song Baby Shark was composed, I couldn't ask it anything about Twitter or Facebook's current algorithms. It can also type up a very solid meeting summary. So using notion and the AI tool for meetings is fantastic. And I know these tools are built into other types of things as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

So can the actors who are in the meeting looking at the data, who are passionate because it's about their students, are they committed to make change? So that's like one huge thing that needs to be discussed even before the data meeting, because otherwise we're just admiring a problem. 00:05:32:07 – 00:05:56:17 Victoria S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

Microsoft 's Free AI Course for Educators Microsoft has an amazing artificial intelligence course for educators that will help you and your education team have the knowledge you need to understand the best practices for artificial intelligence in schools. I highly recommend this free AI course from Microsoft. AIforEducators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Standing Meetings on the Calendar 00;02;07;18 – 00;03;36;14 Chris Chappotin So one way is standing meetings on the calendar in collaboration with a former colleague, developed a system of wildly important goal sessions, kind of based off of Franklin Covey in the Four Disciplines of Execution ™ work. It sounds small.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2022

Advancement Courses - Podcast Sponsor. Advancement Courses is my preferred professional development provider. Last year when I needed to take a college CEU course, I chose Advancement Courses and learned so much about teaching computer science in the classroom. Click Here to Look at Courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Recorded live at ISTE, the conversation delves into how Genius Hour has been revamped and integrated into the sixth-grade curriculum, offering students a full-year exploratory course that goes beyond traditional learning. Vicki: So when you say take, do you mean like a whole semester or a couple of weeks? So sign up for EVERFI today.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2023

By making individualized academic support available on an unlimited basis for every district student, we aim to meet learners’ needs and support their achievement. The platform additionally provides access to self-guided resources, including AP videos and SAT®/ACT® Essentials courses from The Princeton Review®.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Leading K-12 science supplier Carolina Biological Supply Company won four prestigious national Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2023 Awards and earned Finalist in two more categories. Smithsonian Science for the Classroom is a high-quality core science and engineering curriculum program specifically developed to meet the NGSS.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chem Lab Escape empowers students to solve challenges such as combining elements and solutions to create chemical reactions and adding and removing heat energy to water to navigate an obstacle course. Maker High makes learning fun by meeting students where they already are: on Roblox. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The panic alarm helps schools meet the recommendations in Alyssa’s Law, named after Alyssa Alhadeff, one of the 17 victims killed during the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Follow us on Twitter @VS_K12 and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/VectorSolutionsK12. About Vector Solutions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Students go through a guided, asynchronous course experience, monitored by course coaches and student success champions, that is designed to move students through their coursework efficiently. McGraw Hill Connect® is a complete course platform. Noteworthy courses include Critical Thinking and Personal Financial Literacy.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 22, 2019

More than half of students enrolled in college take more than six years to graduate, and 57% of students complete their courses after six years. This change can typically cause a significant loss in money due to dropping and changing courses they do not need for graduation. Meeting with business leaders and entrepreneurs.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Less than a third of high school juniors and seniors reported that they felt prepared to compare financial institutions and select one that best meets their needs (32 percent). EVERFI collected anonymous survey responses from students who participated in one of three EVERFI financial education courses during the 2020-2021 school year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Facebook, Google, Microsoft have pulled out of annual industry conferences, and called off events of their own. Some companies are electing to not send staff. Twitter and Facebook have already pulled out of the main SXSW event.) The recent U.S. Still, concerns over coronavirus may well impact attendance at SXSW EDU this year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

When COVID-19 forced college courses online, Stuart Middleton, a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia, was having trouble connecting with his remote students. So he decided to try to meet them where he heard they were happy to spend time — on TikTok. At least 20 state universities around the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2022

Advancement Courses Tournament of Teachers. Voting is now open in Advancement Courses’ Tournament of Teachers bracket challenge. I like the idea of a “Meet the Teacher” station, and I've done something like that before. Thank You Advancement Courses: Vote in the Tournament of Teachers Bracket Challenge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

AI Tools for Teachers: Meet Curipod, AI Lesson Plan Builder 00;06;00;13 – 00;06;09;25 Vicki Davis And so, Amanda, can you give us some examples of some AI powered educational tools and programs and how they've been effective in helping students learn? Of course it was. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

Did you know you can use a live translator app in PTA meetings, parent teacher conferences, and presentations — that actually works? Microsoft Translator on the Phone Takes PTA Meetings and Parent Teacher Meetings to the Next Level 00;08;44;02 – 00;09;48;00 Ricardo Recinos PTA Meetings. Bios as Submitted.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Maybe we have experienced a cruel deja vu, once again juggling hours of Zoom meetings with the needs of our unvaccinated children as the delta variant courses through schools and day care centers. And, of course, the feeling isn’t universal. Low compensation, of course, was frequently mentioned.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2017

Whether participating in bi-weekly discussions based on articles selected by the students themselves, visiting with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, or meeting with expert mentors in the field, students develop a research focus before they graduate. The Veale Venture Challenge is an open program for high school students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

“This is an arms race for attention,” says James Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that provides media reviews for schools, about the way big technology companies like Apple and Facebook have designed their products. Is Facebook designed to maximize your concentration and focus on the goals that you care about?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

Take a step into the future of education with EVERFI right after today's show. Meet Pat Yongpradit from Code.org and Teach.AI Job Loss by McKinsey and Company. Of course it could. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

It’s also a place where companies are racing into technologies that raise tough ethical issues. But that reluctance is gone, replaced by an enthusiasm and a booming ecosystem of new companies trying to serve a growing audience—especially for online tutoring and English-language learning. That means many of the tutors live in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. What he has yet to find—but which he says Y Combinator would be willing to invest in—are companies that can help support and run new school models.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Then the penny dropped: When Huang realized how hard it was to find the insights she needed, she stopped interviewing and decided to do something about it by starting a company called Fairygodboss. In September, Google picked Fairygodboss to be one of a dozen companies to take part in its first accelerator program for women founders.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. Caitlin Storhaug, director of global recruiting communications, McKinsey & Company. There’s no trickery.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online professional development courses for K-12 teachers. You can take these courses for continuing education, salary advancement, or recertification. They are practical courses that have teachers developing tangible resources to use in their classrooms immediately.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards. While some institutions have tried to punt responsibility for the accessibility of digital tools to the companies that produce them, that reasoning hasn’t persuaded federal agencies or judges.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. As diversity reports from companies like Alphabet, Apple and Facebook reveal, the employee headcounts—especially in senior and executive positions—are overwhelmingly male and white. And I want to run a video game company.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Another educator started a burgeoning Facebook group for international educators to trade tips, and another began a detailed list of helpful online tools, including the digital portfolio platform Seesaw and the ebook library Epic. One enterprising principal she knows created a Google folder for schools to share their virtual learning plans.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

But during that same fifteen-year period, we also witnessed the birth and growth of highly influential firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Tencent and Alibaba. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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