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SETDA Provides Tips on Equity of Access for Students Outside of School

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Unfortunately, teachers and students are often unable to be sure there will be dependable, robust access outside of school depending on family and community circumstances. To help close the homework gap, the school currently provides 5gigs of 4G access to students via their devices and is staring to work with more community partners.

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Addressing the root causes of chronic K-12 absenteeism

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We know that it’s not enough to take attendance and focus on the students chalking up consecutive absences; district leaders must invest in robust data systems to truly understand absenteeism risks and patterns. However, we must also create the policies and have tools available to support identified students and their challenges.

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Advancing educational equity with UDL and generative AI

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However, we must continually push systems so that all students are able to be successful in spaces where they have ownership and feel a sense of belonging (identity). Otherwise, equity and inclusion are still just a dream. Systems produce what they are designed to produce. Opening doors to all students is an obvious move.

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

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It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. COVID-19 shed light on the huge gap in policy relating to tech and infrastructure provisioning—what many are now referring to as a civil rights issue.

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Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer All Educators New, No-Cost Professional Learning Resources

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Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, December 16, 2021) — As school systems nationwide begin to look towards Winter Break, Discovery Education and select social impact partners present curated professional learning resources at no cost to support educators’ continued professional learning.

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3 tips for connecting students to internet resources during summer

eSchool News

Unfortunately, teachers and students are often unable to be sure there will be dependable, robust access outside of school depending on family and community circumstances. To help close the homework gap, the school currently provides 5gigs of 4G access to students via their devices and is staring to work with more community partners.

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Hotspots, YouTube, WiFi, Oh My! How Renton Prioritizes Infrastructure Over Devices

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Quite often, these teams collaborated to create policies around technology and to problem-solve whatever challenges would arise. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?”.

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