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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

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Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. Specifically, researchers at Opportunity Insights found that relationships with higher-income students dramatically improved low-income students’ chances of upward mobility in adulthood, even more than traditional success metrics like school quality.

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The Undeniable Value of Life Skills — and Why They Aren’t Widely Taught in the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

81% of recent college graduates wish they were taught more life skills before graduation, according to one survey conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Experian Boost. With many feeling left behind when it comes to skills such as budgeting and long-term financial planning, there’s no question that even basic personal finance skills can come in handy in the ‘real world.

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Increasing Teacher Agency Leads to Better Decisions & Happier Teachers

Education Elements

As students across the county prepare for the start of a new school year, conversations about how to address our national teacher shortage are becoming more frequent and urgent. Many educators are calling for this conversation to be rebranded as a “teacher walkout” to highlight that teachers are leaving the field as a way to protest a system not built to empower them as decision-makers and innovators.

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How Does Machine Learning Work in Business Management?

EdTech4Beginners

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has greatly impacted the business world recently. Machine learning, a subset of AI, has similarly found a major audience in the corporate sector. Machine learning algorithms are being used to generate analytics that was not available before, and this data is changing how business management decisions are made. Let us deep dive into machine learning and how it can benefit your business operations.

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Enhancing School Device Management for Improved Learning

Schools face increasing challenges as technology becomes integral to education. Efficient device management is essential for maximizing technology use and safeguarding investments. Our article discusses the importance of tracking devices, outlines current challenges, and suggests modern solutions that go beyond traditional methods like Excel. Learn how advanced tracking systems can streamline operations, improve maintenance, and offer real-time updates for better resource allocation.

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When It Comes To Edtech, How Much Influence Do Teachers Have?

Edsurge

Edtech is ubiquitous in classrooms today, especially considering that the COVID-19 pandemic did something that previously seemed impossible. It thrust virtually every school into the deep-end of edtech, starting with remote learning. When it comes to products that teachers are using to buoy student success, the stakes are high. Congress is earmarking millions in relief to combat COVID-19 learning loss and everyone—from students to teachers to administrators —is feeling frayed as schools try to g

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Addressing the Impact of the Pandemic’s Lingering Learning Gap

EdNews Daily

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Schools continue to explore new ways to address the impact of COVID-19 on our learners. As leadership teams around the country consider the most effective options to help close the learning gap for their students, it is helpful to remember what the Kennedy Forum, stated: “Neuroscience research now proves what parents have known all along.

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Podcast: Managing Devolution and the Teacher Shortage

EdNews Daily

For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Horizon Room Open Mic series is a chance for educators to be a part of a high-profile discussion on the most important issues facing education today. Your hosts, Learning Counsel Publishing and Research CEO LeiLani Cauthen and CAO Chris McMurray, bring a fun, fast-moving platform that peels away the usual “mediaspeak” to bring you the inside track on real solutions being used by schools and districts.

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Students get paid to learn, work in the metaverse this summer

eSchool News

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Dante Hernandez, a rising ninth grader at Technology High School, never imagined that an Oculus headset would be his way of getting to work. This summer, it is – and his office is in the virtual world. While some teens find jobs in retail or restaurants, Hernandez and 50 other Newark students are spending their vacation from school in an immersive reality called the metaverse, a virtual versio

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What is Project-Based Learning?

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Project-based learning (PBL) centers the learning around students meeting class objectives by engaging in practical real-world experiences that foster engagement.

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5 tips for a positive back-to-school experience

eSchool News

Heading back to school can be an exciting yet challenging time for students, teachers, and parents alike. While many school systems are returning to full in-person learning, some students are taking advantage of virtual or hybrid learning models their school may offer. Hybrid learning serves as a great option for students–however, in the early days of pandemic virtual learning, teachers noticed the need for stronger tools and resources in order for them to create the best possible learning

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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SPECIAL ED STAFFING SHORTAGES AND TELETHERAPY

American Consortium for Equity in Education

PRESENTING KATE EBERLE, CEO AND FOUNDER OF PRESENCE ON SPECIAL ED STAFFING SHORTAGES. Kate has also authored The Good Boss; Nine Ways Every Manager Can Support Women at Work * Everything we do is linked at the home website of. Keep Reading SPECIAL ED STAFFING SHORTAGES AND TELETHERAPY. The post SPECIAL ED STAFFING SHORTAGES AND TELETHERAPY appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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New Physics E-Book Helps High School and College Students Explore Mechanics Concepts Using Video Analysis

eSchool News

BEAVERTON, Oregon — To support high school and college physics instruction, Vernier Science Education has released Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces. This new e-book, which features 12 hands-on investigations that use the award-winning Vernier Video Analysis ® app, helps students explore mechanics topics beyond basic motion, such as conservation of energy and conservation of translational and angular momentum. “ Vernier Video Analysis: Conservation Laws and Forces builds on st

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HUMAN CENTERED VIRTUAL LEARNING

American Consortium for Equity in Education

HUMAN CENTERED VIRTUAL LEARNING Edmentum’s Chief Strategy Officer Amanda Kocon on how the pandemic changed virtual learning. . The post HUMAN CENTERED VIRTUAL LEARNING appeared first on Equity & Access Pre K-12 | The American Consortium for Equity in Education.

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25 Best Mindblowing Science Activities to Try With Your Preschoolers Today

SplashLearn

Children enter preschool at the age of three or four, and they are expected to sit still for circle time, storytime, and other group activities. But for some kids, this can be a real challenge. If your child is hyperactive, it doesn’t mean that he or she can’t participate in preschool activities – there are […]. The post 25 Best Mindblowing Science Activities to Try With Your Preschoolers Today first appeared on SplashLearn Blog.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Q&A with Ben Odipo, Corona-Norco USD Assistant Supt. of IT Improving Equity & Access Through Collaboration

American Consortium for Equity in Education

The ace-ed.org team recently sat down with Corona-Norco Unified School District (California) Assistant Superintendent of IT Ben Odipo to learn how his school district’s IT and Curriculum teams are collaborating to improve equity and access across the school system. Here. Keep Reading Q&A with Ben Odipo, Corona-Norco USD Assistant Supt. of IT. Improving Equity & Access Through Collaboration.

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How Do You Spell Relief?

EdNews Daily

By Charles Sosnik Sometimes, you just need to let it all go. I’m not suggesting that you give up. I’m just saying that when the stress builds to a boiling point, you stop, take a breath, and allow the stress to dissipate. And it will if you allow it to. The important point to understand is that you don’t have to carry it with you. Even if you simply set it down, you can always come back and pick it up later.

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Public Universities Are Taking Back Control Over Their Online Programs From OPMs

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When the educational services company Zovio sold its online program management business to the University of Arizona Global Campus in August, it wasn’t a shock. Zovio’s business model is seen by many industry-watchers as a hold-over from the University of Phoenix era, before companies like 2U pioneered the idea of helping colleges both run online programs and finance their creation in exchange for a cut of tuition.

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HMH Unveils Major Platform Enhancements to Empower Educators and Engage Students Heading Back-to-School Nationwide

eSchool News

BOSTON, /PRNewswire/ – As students and teachers nationwide head back to school, learning technology company HMH today announced major enhancements to Ed , HMH’s connected teaching and learning platform, that will offer an even more streamlined experience to empower educators and engage students. Seamless integrations with Google Classroom and Clever, as well as refinements and new features to many of HMH’s core, supplemental and intervention solutions and professional learning se

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.