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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

The presentation featured Raymond McNulty, President of the Successful Practices Network, and Michael Conner, Ed.D., About the Presenters. McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Superintendent of the Middletown Public Schools in Connecticut.

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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

Campbell Soup Company shared why real food matters. Cielito Lindo presented the math of proofs in alcohol volume. Presenting the Taste of Math Honorees. Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Chefs Scott and Diana McDonough of Le Petite Spoon asked: what does math taste like?

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. A key component of the division’s project-based instructional model is its maker curriculum, which has been the subject of presentations by division educators around the country, including at the White House.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education, and into the present day, doesn’t add up to much. Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. He’s had a few, but not too many. And even these lack much self-reflection.

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They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

The Hechinger Report

However, his school district only counts kids present in some classes if they both show up and submit their homework for the day. In synchronous classes, it is enough for a student to be present. Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. The students typed explanations for the placement and spacing of each number into a page on PLP, and would later present those explanations to the class.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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