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3 ways to support special education students with college and career readiness

eSchool News

Additionally, both hard and soft skills are learned and cultivated outside the classroom in experiential settings, such as: community service projects, extracurricular activities, job shadowing, career mentorship, informational interviews, internships, practicums, and afterschool programs.

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Interactive Field Trips Offered to Educators for Black History Month, President’s Day, Women’s History Month and Earth Day

eSchool News

Teachers, school administrators, parents and childcare professionals are encouraged to browse CILC’s complete library of programs or register for a free membership at cilc.org. CILC was developed for teachers to easily identify quality educational programs and interactive virtual experiences. Earth is Worth It !, Service Center.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. limited data collection, limited program evaluation?, In fact, we have become so accustomed to hearing negative things about D.C no implementation support?,

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A summer program uses the arts to combat the achievement gap

The Hechinger Report

Armed with program evaluation data, Baltimore City Public Schools has expanded the academy from one to eight sites over the last four years. Libraries, city parks and nonprofits like the YMCA are other common sites of summer learning programs. And students seem to love it.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

However, a resurgence in their use has recently been noted in distance education for program evaluation purposes… Stakeholders desire to prove that participants in distance-delivered courses receive the same quality of instruction off-campus as those involved in the “traditional” classroom setting.

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How Professors Can Encourage Students to Join Them for Office Hours

Edsurge

Viji Sathy, a teaching associate professor and program evaluator of chancellor’s science scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, encourages us to be more inclusive in how we approach office hours by using different formats, times and locations. He invites his students to set appointments using the YouCanBook.me

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

edWeb.net

Mark Ray is Director of Innovation and Library Services for Vancouver (WA) Public Schools and Future Ready Librarians Lead at the Alliance for Excellent Education. In addition to blogs, he has also written for School Administrator , eSchool News , and School Library Journal. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL.