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How a State E-rate Coordinator Drives Digital Access

Education Superhighway

She is the current Digital Access Coordinator for the Learning Technology Center of Illinois (LTC) and an Illinois State E-rate Coordinator. Moreover, Mindy serves on several state and national associations such as the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and State E-rate Coordinator Alliance (SECA).

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Navigating Social Media as a Parent

Tech Helpful

E-parenting is not an easy task. Recently I attended an e-parenting workshop at a local school here in Chattanooga and the speaker shared a great social media rating guide: This can be found at www.safesmartsocial.com. Follow your kids on social media. Look at their history.

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This Month at DE: May

Discovery Education

Arcademics combines the excitement of video games with educational content to increase the rate of learning and fluency through thrilling, focused repetition. Students will go inside the world of social media to see how their decision-making can be influenced by others and discover practical strategies to overcome peer pressure.

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Appy-Picking Month: Speech4Good

SpeechTechie

In addition, I have been attending a workshop focusing on fluency assessment and therapy in which the application was recommended as one way to visually/auditorily practice fluency techniques. You can also share files to e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook from the Library. The Library shows saved recordings and notes for sessions.

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Differentiating Instruction in Kindergarten and Elementary Grades with Laura Robb

The CoolCatTeacher

For Scholastic, Robb has completed several best sellers including the first and second editions of Teaching Reading in Middle School , Differentiating Reading Instruction , Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math , and her newest, Unlocking Complex Texts. Thank you, e Spark for sponsoring this extended episode today.

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One district’s innovative ideas to engage parents

eSchool News

Free tutors, workshops, and cold hard cash gets more parents involved in Guilford County. Students with engaged parents traditionally have better attendance, a more positive attitude, and higher rates of graduation than peers with less support. We’re trying to address the opportunity gap,” Carr said.

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E-Counseling 2.0: Can a new wave of virtual guidance help?

The Hechinger Report

The last couple years have brought a renaissance in virtual guidance counseling—both new services and existing ones upping their game with mobile, social media and data analytics. It’s e-counseling 2.0. We wanted to help hundreds of thousands of kids.”. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. Photo: Esteban Gil. Photo: Esteban Gil.

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