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A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

Edsurge

This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. Essentially these are the computer systems that store grades and the student records of his school. At least he tried to.

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Top 10 Ways to Give Back While at Home

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Research says that when students are engaged in service-learning, their immune system, heart rate and sense of well-being improves dramatically. Children are happiest when they feel a sense of purpose.

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Achieving Equity Through Systems, Strategies, and Educational Justice

edWeb.net

Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. About the Moderator. Dr. Daniel A.

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Savvas Introduces Experience Physics, a New Program that Uses Phenomena-Based, Experiential Learning to Drive Students’ Real-World Inquiry

eSchool News

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — December 7, 2021 — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, today announced the release of Experience Physics , a brand-new phenomena-driven curriculum that focuses on the student experience through engaging hands-on and virtual inquiry activities. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY.

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Improving Student Outcomes Through Work-Based Learning Opportunities

edWeb.net

To develop and maintain the business and industry partnerships that provide work-based learning opportunities for the students, the district uses online advertising and provides marketing materials, as well as resources like a mentor handbook.

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A Data-Oriented Approach to Elevating Women in the Workplace

Edsurge

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 History of the School Bell

Hack Education

The Common School movement that nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann spearheaded (from roughly 1840-1880), advocating for the foundation of a public school system, did not just promote a common curriculum — an overt curriculum, that is, of reading, writing, and arithmetic or a covert curriculum of punctuality and obedience.

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