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Meet Digital Promise’s New President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard

Digital Promise

Not to say that the promise was always to teach all kids—the system was designed to do exactly what it’s doing right now. The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. Education, frankly, has failed to fulfill its promise.

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Steps That Administrators Can Take to Address Secondary Trauma Stress

Insight Education Group

Schools are realizing the very real presence of Secondary Trauma Stress (STS). Secondary Trauma Stress or compassion fatigue is defined by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network as the “emotional duress that results when an individual hears about the firsthand trauma experiences of another. Lighten the load for educators.

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Guest Post: How We Can Reframe Edtech Selection to Promote Equity

Digital Promise

In this first post, the authors outline how they centered equity as they developed an edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation guide for school systems leaders. For edtech to fulfill this potential, school system leaders need to better understand how to center equity in edtech-related decisions.

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Post-Secondary Options That Will Let You Work From Home

EdNews Daily

Some employers require showing up to the office for periodic meetings, but many companies hold meetings over Skype or similar channels. In the instance of a clean water system, perhaps, blueprints and ideas can be sent back and forth. Working from home can be done full-time or as a side hustle. . Translation and Localization.

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Today’s Meet is Closed. What are your Alternatives?

Ask a Tech Teacher

As of June 16, 2018, Today’s Meet closed (read the full details here ). It turns out, there are good options, depending upon whether you primarily use Today’s Meet for: backchannel and student response. Socrative is one of the most well known and widely used student response systems and for good reason.

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As Schools Move to Change How Kids Are Graded, Some Families Push Back

Edsurge

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

The reality is often much more mundane, as classrooms that meet even the most basic of digital information standards still qualify as being a Smart Classroom, Lab, or Lecture Hall. educational system for at least a generation. and whiteboard.

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