Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. These new tasks were added. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their nondisabled peers, and when they are given the same opportunities to plan out their postsecondary lives. But too often, schools aren’t providing students with the appropriate help.

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Education Strategy Report Training 110

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Anyone interested in improving schooling through digital tools has to distinguish between what the media hypes and what policies are actually adopted. Then, one has to further distinguish between the hyperbole and adopted policies and programs before determining what teachers actually do in their classroom lessons.

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 78

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While these roles were drafted to appeal specifically to university and college librarians, they are universal enough to be relevant to school librarians working in primary and secondary school media centers, too. Overwhelmingly, public school library policy would prohibit students from posting while at school.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 87