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On ZTC, OER, and a More Expansive View

Iterating Toward Openness

MIT OCW, Rice’s Connexions, my group at USU, and others applied the new Creative Commons licenses to their materials to create open content. They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority. yellow below).

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Quiet In The Classroom: How To Recognize And Support Introverted Entrepreneurs

EdNews Daily

They may also enjoy quiet trips to a museum, visiting the local library, taking music lessons, painting, and quiet reading spaces. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Quite often, introspective deep-thinkers are happy at home working on things of interest.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

These types of arrangements require effective partnering with unions and community groups, in order to identify solutions and reach agreements while dealing with budget shortfalls. There should also be outreach to new partners such as libraries and local city councils in an effort to obtain resources and other support.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 10 dedicated educators

eSchool News

Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! In fall 2019, Michelle became the Content Lead for CRCSD’s 32 school libraries. At that time, the average age of all library collections in the district exceeded 15 years in age, with some exceeding as many as 20 years in age.

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Silicon Valley aims its tech at helping low-income kids get beyond high school

The Hechinger Report

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. “Because the demographics are changing so rapidly, if your system excludes this group of people, you are condemning your system to mediocrity.”

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. It’s better than it was.”. percent to 89.1