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7 Reasons Advancement Courses Has Excellent Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! Recently, I took a course from Advancement Courses called Teaching Computer Science in 6-12. Look at Courses.

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10 Trauma Informed Principles for Educators During the Coronavirus with Dr. Eric Rossen

The CoolCatTeacher

Advancement Courses is the distance education PD opportunity that I recommend for teachers. First, Advancement Courses and I are hosting a webinar on April 2 at 7 p.m. Join me and the experts from Advancement Courses as we talk about 10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices for you right now.

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Computer Science Course Offerings in High School Spur More Students to Coding Degrees

Edsurge

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. I took my first CS course in grad school, and before that I totally thought I was not a CS person,” he says. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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5 Ways to Safeguard Student Information

EdTech Magazine

5 Ways to Safeguard Student Information. Schools handle a wide variety of sensitive information concerning students and their families. Laws, regulations and ethical obligations require administrators to take active measures to protect that information from unauthorized disclosure. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 04/10/2019 - 10:01.

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Many Students Don’t Inform Their Colleges About Their Disability. That Needs to Change.

Edsurge

In a recent policy inquiry course, I conducted an analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) — a groundbreaking federal law, first passed in 1990, which bans discrimination on the basis of disability — to analyze the issues associated with the self-identification process, particularly in the higher education space.

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John Green launches Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information

NeverEndingSearch

In the introduction, John discusses the importance of how the quality of the information we meet online shapes our understanding of the universe and our place in that universe. He suggests three questions: Who is behind the information? Why are they sharing the information? Crash Course Kids: [link]. Twitter: [link].

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Ozobot Launches Self-Service Professional Development Courses

eSchool News

NEWPORT BEACH, CA, USA – Ozobot , a global leader in programmable robotics and STEAM-based learning solutions that empower the next generation of creators from K-12 to higher education and beyond, today announced the launch of Self-Service Professional Development (PD) courses, now available for purchase on Ozobot.com.

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