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Theresa Copple: The Council for Exceptional Children’s 2024 National Special Education Teacher of the Year

American Consortium for Equity in Education

Instilling Self-Advocacy in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students When Theresa Copple was in fifth grade, she had a best friend whose parents were Deaf.

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The 5 best ways to celebrate CTE Month 2024

eSchool News

You have a golden opportunity to take your celebration and advocacy to the next level by getting your students more involved! For some ideas, the ACTE has a page dedicated to social media advocacy with tips, hashtags, and other information you and your students can use to really make an impact via social media!

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Advocating for ACP Renewal: Three Ways to Take Action

Education Superhighway

Right now, the ACP is projected to run out of funds in early 2024. Here are three simple ways to advocate for ACP renewal: Step One: Share Your Story Our most powerful tools for ACP advocacy are personal stories about the impact of the ACP. Looking for additional advocacy resources? Want to help? Step Two: Post (Often!)

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Reflections on a Conversation about a US National Open Education Policy

Iterating Toward Openness

The sense I got is that reducing textbook costs isn’t enough anymore, the advocacy has moved on to eliminating them. For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. The policy will end up being something like a national zero textbook cost policy.

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Nancy Knowlton, David Martin awarded Meritorious Service Medals (Civil Division)

eSchool News

Presented by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, the Meritorious Service Decorations recognize remarkable Canadians for their extraordinary accomplishments and contributions that bring honor to Canada — from advocacy initiatives and health care services to research and humanitarian efforts.

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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. That argument has helped build support, said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. I’ll see you in 2024! Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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5 Challenges and Opportunities for the 2023-24 School Year

edWeb.net

Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, “ Leading Learning in the 2023-2024 School Year: Challenges and Opportunities ,” presented by CoSN and AASA and sponsored by ClassLink. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.