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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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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

Even the school system, D.C. 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?, It’s not often that we get good news from Washington D.C.

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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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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

edWeb.net

DIT investigates what it will take to integrate that digital resource into the existing system. His participation in a Learning Counsel event led to district recognition for VPS’s systemic leadership. In addition to blogs, he has also written for School Administrator , eSchool News , and School Library Journal.