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10 Companies Hiring Teachers Over the Summer

EdNews Daily

If you are a teacher looking for a summer gig, or unique ways to make extra money over your break, please find 10 companies hiring now. Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Inc. Varsity Tutors is a nationally recognized company that connects students with personalized tutoring services in both academic and test prep subject areas.

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My School Learned The Hard Way That Edtech Saves Time, But It Can't Solve Human Problems

Edsurge

While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. These companies have claimed to solve any number of problems a school faces. Need to foster relationships between students?

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

Edsurge

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. In fact, controversies are emerging about an important but less understood aspect of learning to read: phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. But science evolved.

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Exploring new ideas and skills in the summer

Neo LMS

It is also the time for us to engage in learning experiences for ourselves as well as provide some options for our students. Finding new ideas and activities, that will not only push us to learn but can help us all with focusing more on self-care, mental health and wellness, is important. Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL).

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Even so, we’re still a long way from having a mature practice of learning engineering in place.

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