Thu.Sep 30, 2021

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. The new cohort extends the network’s reach to 125 districts across 34 states, and expands its cumulative impact to 3.8 million students served over time. Over the past 18 months, innovation has taken on a whole new meaning.

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3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

Cognitive ToyBox conducted an experiment to find out which forms of advertising via social media are most effective in reaching educators. The post 3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media appeared first on Market Brief.

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NCSA Announces Resource Library

EdTech Magazine

Last month, the National Cyber Security Alliance announced the launch of the Cybersecurity Education and Career Resource Library in partnership with Palo Alto Networks. The resource library contains educational materials for IT leaders — including those in the K–12 space — looking to examine and fortify their cybersecurity practices. The site separates information for K–12 leaders into K–6 and 6–12 categories.

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We Need to Make Schools Human Again. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect.

Edsurge

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. As an instructional coach, the most important role I have is as a listener. The best part of my job is bearing witness to the deep self-reflection that leads to perspective shifts and instructional changes. So I listened as teachers reflected on their time teaching online and, in my listening, I heard the common desire for authenticity and an unwillingness t

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Our lives are heavily influenced by our ability to read. Yet across the country, millions of kids are struggling to learn this vital skill. A low literacy level at a young age can have a lifelong impact that includes poor physical and mental health, limited employment opportunities and lower quality of life. As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity

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Shifting the TikTok Trend: Students Have the Power! 

Teacher Tech

Eductor and Leader, Carly Spina, shares a resource to counteract the latest TikTok trends and a way to help students use social media in positive ways. FREE RESOURCES included! The post Shifting the TikTok Trend: Students Have the Power! appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How Project-Based Learning Can Nurture Student Autonomy

TeachThought - Learn better.

Project-based learning can nurture student autonomy by requiring students to make authentic decisions about what they learn and do. The post How Project-Based Learning Can Nurture Student Autonomy appeared first on TeachThought.

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3 Native American women head to college in the pandemic. Will they get a sophomore year? 

The Hechinger Report

In high school, Cante Skuya Lonehill-Stover, who is Oglala Lakota, decorated her bedroom wall with a photo of her dad waving goodbye to his grandparents from below their porch as he left for college. Two days before she departed for Augustana University — a private liberal arts college in Sioux Falls, on the other side of South Dakota from her home on the Pine Ridge Reservation — Cante re-created the scene as she said goodbye to her own grandparents.

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Year-Round Schools: 5 Things To Know

techlearning

Schools that employ a year-round or balanced calendar hope to limit learning loss and provide more resources and one-on-one attention for students.

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5 ways robots will bring your classroom into the 21st century

eSchool News

When you hear the word ‘robot,’ what comes to mind? Off the bat, it’s probably either a hyper-realistic robot that can’t be distinguished from a human that sets out to take over the world, or ‘Disneyfied’ robots such as C-3PO and WALL-E that have been created for our entertainment. Today, however, their potential impact is more far-reaching.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media

Marketplace K-12

Cognitive ToyBox conducted an experiment to find out which forms of advertising via social media are most effective in reaching educators. The post 3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media appeared first on Market Brief.

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Empowering students with UX classroom design

eSchool News

It’s the last day of summer break. You walk the halls, ducking your head into classrooms as you go. Each room looks ready for the year: inspiring quotes on walls, names on desks, chairs perfectly arranged. Every room except one, that is. This particular room has boxes of books, containers of art supplies, and furniture pushed against the wall. You smile and move on, never doubting that this room will be one of the most creative, functional, and beloved rooms in just a few short days.

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Numbers Don’t Lie: Why Microlearning is Better for Your Learners (and You too)

EmergingEdTech

Image source While we all have different learning styles, most people get easily bored and disengaged when dealing with long, traditional training or courses. And when we're not attentive and. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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How Our Reading and Writing Lives Impact Kids

MiddleWeb

In Leading Literate Lives Stephanie Affinito strikes the perfect balance between encouraging reflective pedagogy and sharing fresh teaching ideas for reading and writing so teachers can pass the love they have for literacy on to students, writes ELA teacher Rebecca Crockett. The post How Our Reading and Writing Lives Impact Kids first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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2021-22 Student Book Budget Team Begins!

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

It’s a new year in the Barrow Media Center. We are fully in-person and trying to get checkout, lessons, collaborations, and special projects rolling. Our makerspace collaboration with UGA is on hold, but that gives us a new opportunity to begin our student book budget project early. The student book budget team is a group of 3rd-5th graders who use our book fair profits to purchase new books for the library.

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Why Should Administrators Encourage Teacher Self-Reflection? (District Administration)

Edthena

Educators may be used to reflecting at the end of school years , but what about at other times? Edthena’s own Krina Shah, on the content and community team, talks in this article about why school leaders should encourage teacher self-reflection and how they can support teachers in the process. Especially after the last 18-plus months of unprecedented distanced teaching, teachers need to assess their own strengths and weaknesses in order to better meet the needs of their students, many of w

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Aperture Education Hires Stacey Preator as its New Vice President of Customer Experience

eSchool News

Charlotte N.C. (Sept. 30, 2021) — Aperture Education, the leading provider of researched-backed social and emotional learning (SEL) assessments for K-12 schools, has hired Stacey Preator as its new Vice President of Customer Experience – a new position created by the company to provide additional support to its customer success team, professional learning team, and strategic accounts team.

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Guía del administrador

PlagiarismCheck

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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APM Studios Inks Partnership With Listenwise To Bring Award-Winning Science Podcast Brains On! Into Classrooms

eSchool News

ST. PAUL, Minn., September 30, 2021 — APM Studios , the podcast production division of American Public Media (APM), today announced that it has partnered with listening comprehension platform Listenwise to bring Brains On! , APM Studios’ award-winning science podcast for kids, into classrooms nationwide as a learning resource for grades 2-5. Since its launch in 2012, the mission of Brains On!

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Guía para profesores

PlagiarismCheck

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Oklahoma Christian University and BloomBoard Announce New Partnership to Support Teacher Development and Salary Advancement with Micro-credentials

eSchool News

EDMOND, Okla. (September 30, 2021)- Today, Oklahoma Christian University (OC) and BloomBoard announced a partnership to help Oklahoma schools and districts with COVID recovery by supporting teachers with micro-credential-based graduate courses. This news comes after a recent report shed light on the Sooner State’s struggles with retaining teachers. Through this partnership, Oklahoma teachers will earn graduate credit from the university and build immediate teaching skills necessary to address pa

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Designing programmatic assessments for effective learning outcomes

Turnitin

An article on designing programmatic assessments for effective learning outcomes

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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How edtech helps students demonstrate learning in more than one way

Neo LMS

As educators, we must provide a variety of options for students to develop their content area knowledge and skills in ways that meet their interests and needs. When choosing methods and tools to use, it is also important to create opportunities for students to develop social emotional learning (SEL) skills, as they are essential for personal and professional growth.

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Can the ‘Netflix For Textbooks’ Model Actually Improve Access?

Edsurge

Textbooks play a central role in discussions around higher ed affordability , and publishers have long been cast as the villain, pulling in high profits as textbook prices rise. These days some publishers are trying a new sales model they say will save students money: textbook subscription services. The latest player to jump in is Pearson, which released Pearson Plus over the summer as a “pay-as-you-go” alternative to traditional textbooks.

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While learning online, many students received a surprising pandemic respite from cyberbullying

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! School principal Gregg Wieczorek in Hartland, Wisconsin was prepared to see a sharp increase in cyberbullying when his students migrated to online learning during spring 2020.

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Detroit schools are effectively barred from raising funds to repair their buildings. Federal money is the city’s only hope

The Hechinger Report

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. Having taught at the school decades ago, Johnson wanted to stop by his “educational home” to explain what has happened in Detroit’s schools.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.