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CFY becomes PowerMyLearning

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To better align our mission with our name, I am pleased to share with you that we have officially changed our name to PowerMyLearning. So, why PowerMyLearning? We chose this name for our organization because “PowerMyLearning” represents everything we do and everything we stand for. PowerMyLearning Greater Los Angeles Region.

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Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’

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For the past 18 months, a pilot program in a South Bronx public school, called “Family Playlists,” developed by the New York-based nonprofit, PowerMyLearning , has used technology to increase families’ involvement in their students’ learning. That approach resonated well with PowerMyLearning, which Stock started in 1999.

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Free Family Engagement Tool For Impacted Schools and Districts

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PowerMyLearning, a national nonprofit, is committed to helping school and district leaders who are mobilizing to implement remote learning plans in response to COVID-19. PowerMyLearning Family Playlists® can help make that transition smoother. Family Playlists are easy to integrate with Google Classroom and Clever.

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Time Is the Greatest Challenge to Teaching STEM. Families Can Help.

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In fact, the 2018 National Study of Science and Mathematics Education reported that many elementary school teachers do not even provide science instruction every week. This past school year, my organization, PowerMyLearning, partnered with NYSCI to “learn from the best” how to develop standards-aligned Family Playlists.

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Want Students to Remember What They Learn? Have Them Teach It.

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I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships. D’Angelo witnessed in her classroom?

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EduStar Platform Promises Quick, Randomized Ed-Tech Trials

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The technology platform is the product of a grant-funded collaboration between two professors and the nonprofit PowerMyLearning. It runs trials on granular pieces of digital learning activities via the PowerMyLearning Connect platform, which is available free to schools. Basketball vs. Boredom: The Dividing Fractions Trial .

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via US News & World Report : “ DeVos Racks Up More Than a Dozen Visits to Florida Schools.” Via Education Week : “ K–12 Spending in Most States Still Far Below Pre-Recession Levels , Report Says.” ” Via The Hechinger Report : “ U.S. ” Remember: Jeb loves Betsy.