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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Distance learning began March 23. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1

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“Rescuing Self: A Foundation for Personal and Professional Growth." An 8-week online workshop.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DETAILS: 8-week online workshop. TO REGISTER : You need first to be a member of Learning 2.0 Then click HERE to join the workshop and pay. The world created by social media has the potential to make us feel vulnerable by the constant comparison with the “best moments” posted by others. I hope you’ll join us.

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Highly-versatile, Easy-to-use Form Creator–and it’s free!

Ask a Tech Teacher

Once the form is completed, it can be shared via a link or social media, or integrated into DropBox, Google Docs, and many other popular platforms. register participants in a Professional Development workshop. Comparison between JotForm and Google Forms. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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9 Ways to Upgrade Professional Learning in Your District

Tom Murray

The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades. A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Nothing more.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

Edsurge

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Public Schools created a design lab , which invited principals, teachers and staff to workshop solutions to problems. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. In 2018, D.C.

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Teachers struggle to teach the Holocaust without running afoul of new ‘divisive concepts’ rules

The Hechinger Report

She cautioned them not to let people “change your laws to stop you learning about history.” But a New Hampshire scholar says it’s impossible to avoid subjects like these if we truly want to learn from the atrocities of the past. Others say they avoid mentioning current events and hot-button topics such as implicit bias. Dita, aged 11.

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The Failure of Fast Education

Edsurge

Some are day-long or week-long workshops. And most of these programs are compelling because they are relatively affordable (by comparison to traditional degrees), short, and promise a clear path to employment. Posting work on social media is a disaster for real problem-solving strategy development, as the echo chamber of “good job!”

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