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PROOF POINTS: Colleges that ditched test scores for admissions find it’s harder to be fair in choosing students, researcher says

The Hechinger Report

One college admissions officer at a large public university described how test-optional admissions had spurred more disagreements in his office. A third reader on an application was often called in to break a tie when one staffer said ‘yes’ and another said ‘no.’ Without SAT and ACT scores, he explained, the job of admitting students had become more subjective and more time-consuming.

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Digital Citizenship Week–Oct. 17-21 2022–Here’s What You Need

Ask a Tech Teacher

Information that will help you teach digital citizenship to your students. Below, you’ll find everything from a full year-long curriculum to professional development for teachers: Resources: Digital Citizenship: What to Teach When (a video). Curricula: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum. More on Digital Citizenship. How to Grow Global Digital Citizens.

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Held for Ransom: What Schools Need to Know Before a Ransomware Attack

EdTech Magazine

For the past two years, ransomware attacks have been on the rise in K–12, and districts are struggling to keep up. Ransomware can be debilitating to districts and can impact the availability of services to educate students. Ransomware encrypts targeted systems, rendering files and applications useless. Having encrypted a district’s data, cybercriminals demand a ransom to decrypt the files.

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We’re back in school. Did we lean into care or compliance?

Dangerously Irrelevant

Most schools here in the U.S. now have been back for a month or two. And I’m hearing from educators that things are … ‘better.’ Which has me wondering, “How are we defining better ?” As we all know, the end of the 2020 school year and the entire 2020-21 school year were an incredible challenge. Schools shut down. People died. Everything was disrupted, and everyone was scared and anxious.

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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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Why Accessibility Must Be a Part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Initiatives

Edsurge

Companies that are committed to diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) provide products and services that authentically and accurately reflect the learners they serve—whoever they are and wherever they live. These organizations have developed and embedded coherent and consistent principles to clearly define DEI content and DEI-attentive products. They have shaped and promoted editorial guidelines for the products they fashion, which will land in the hands of educators and students.

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How to build deep relationships with students

eSchool News

In order for students to actually learn, they need to feel engaged on a cognitive and emotional level. They also need to feel safe. Take a minute and think about that: students need to feel safe. The first step in students feeling safe in school is having a positive relationship with the adult who is leading their educational journey. As Rita Pearson details in her famous TED Talk , every child deserves a champion or an adult who can make them feel safe and insist on them being the best they can

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Teacher burnout remains educators’ top concern

eSchool News

The majority of educators (71 percent) are worried about teacher burnout during the 2022-2023 school year, according to a national survey conducted by Lexia Learning , a Cambium Learning?Group company. That concern is warranted; in a January 2022 National Education Association (NEA) survey , 90 percent of NEA members reported that feeling burned out was a serious problem.

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PREVENTION EDUCATION and SEL

American Consortium for Equity in Education

an SELtoday.org Presentation PREVENTION EDUCATION and SEL: Erin Hildreth of Responsibility.org is joined by Phyllis Fagell, writer, author and school counselor at Sheridan School in Washington DC. Thank you for helping me set up this show, Discovery Education. Podcasts are archived at ace-ed.org., home of everything. Keep Reading PREVENTION EDUCATION and SEL.

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What is Compassionate Communication for Coaches? Hear from Expert Megan Tschannen-Moran

Edthena

When instructional coaches strive to correct teachers instead of communicating, they’re playing a game where everyone loses. Compassionate communication is a key component of evocative coaching , an effective coaching model from Megan Tschannen-Moran. Her idea of a win-win game? “Coaches coming together with teachers in connection to open up the realm of possibilities.”.

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How Classroom Circles Help Us Build Community

MiddleWeb

The life skills students learn in our classes prepare them to thrive in the real world. Middle grades teacher Laleh Ghotbi shares some lessons from her effort to use weekly community-building circles in her classroom to help students learn to respect their differences and focus on common values. The post How Classroom Circles Help Us Build Community first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Library 2.0 Libraries and Privacy Conference - Recordings Posted!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Last week's Library 2.0 mini-conference, " Libraries and Privacy: Critical Issues for Information Professionals ," went very well and we had terrific feedback! The video recordings for the conference have been posted, along with the presentation session chat logs and (where provided) the presentation slide decks. The recordings page is at [link]. The page does require a free Library 2.0 registration.

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232: The Collaboration behind the Solar Podcast

The Thinking Stick

Sponsors: FlexiSpot.com Save $20 on the E7 Standing Desk when using the code Shifting20 at check. The Journalism Salute Podcast. Our Guests: Stephanie Arakelian Stephanie is a senior podcast marketing & audience development executive at CurtCo Media, developing marketing campaigns, promotions, and features for all podcasts in the CurtCo Media catalog.

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New Library 2.0 Webinar: "Bomb Threats and Bullets in the Book Drop: What to Do About Threats to the Library"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

"Bomb Threats and Bullets in the Book Drop: What to Do About Threats to the Library" Part of the Library 2.0 Series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : Recent protests over content and programs at libraries around the country have seen the use of verbal and electronic threats, both overt and covert, as a method to disrupt library operations or try to force the facility to close for a time.

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Segmented, Stretched, and Misunderstood: Student Affairs Marketing and Communications

Josie Ahlquist

That’s the tweet. The TLDR. The spoiler alert. What is the current state of student affairs marketing and communications? It is segmented, stretched, and misunderstood. For over 10 years, I have been supporting and strategizing marketing and communications across campus, especially in student affairs. During the spring of 2022, I began formally researching how the student affairs divisions within.

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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.

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Addressing Fear of Accountability in Education

techlearning

For many school leaders, the idea of accountability can bring about fear and/or anxiety.

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Explore the 10 Best Boarding Schools in the US: Admission Process, Tuition fee, and More

SplashLearn

Are you a parent trying to figure out the best boarding school in the US for your child? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve compiled a list of the top boarding schools in the US, based on factors like academics, affordability, and extracurriculars. So whether you’re looking for the most prestigious boarding school or […].

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5 Wicked Awesome Halloween Activities using Buncee

Buncee

The rush and excitement of back to school has finally simmered down, but the fun does not end here. You can count on Buncee to help make learning fun and engaging for students all year long! With Halloween coming up, we can expect kids to be excited and busy talking about their fun plans, and quite possibly be a bit checked out from their school work.

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OPINION: Public school enrollment losses are a big problem, but fundamental changes can turn the tide

The Hechinger Report

I sat at a table with superintendents from around the country this summer, talking about the losses threatening districts coming out of the pandemic. Learning loss was certainly a huge concern, but not the only loss that worried them. Not one of these districts is growing. Some of them have lost more than 10 percent of their students since the pandemic started.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t