Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The post How Schools and Districts are Supporting Digital Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

The challenges facing K-12 leaders as they start the new school year are enormous. For instance, the latest test results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that fourth graders’ average reading skills have dropped by five points on a 500-point scale since the start of the pandemic—the biggest decline in more than 30 years.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Members of student tech teams provide their districts with much-needed tech assistance and gain valuable real-world experience in the process.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Adopted after the 1966 International Labor Organization and UNESCO’s Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, World Teachers’ Day 2022 is celebrated on the 5th of October and emphasizes teachers’ rights and responsibilities. Although it’s a day to celebrate teachers and their work, it also brings forward children’s rights and access to education.

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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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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark During global Brain Awareness Week, some seven years ago in March 2015, The Kennedy Forum convened experts at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, MA to consider perspectives and review (then) recent findings on brain research. Representatives from the fields of neuroscience, pediatrics, psychology, mindfulness, neurocognitive behavior, education, healthcare, research, and technology gathered to explore ways to effectively convert brain health and fitness knowledge

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MiddleWeb

OCTOBER 3, 2022

While logic and skill are two important elements in advancing math knowledge, students also need to be immersed in the language of math to succeed. Kathleen Palmieri brainstormed with her fifth graders to develop fun strategies that help them understand and apply math terms. The post How We Pumped Up Our Math Vocabulary Study first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The phone call from her son’s school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately. This story also appeared in The Associated Press. But when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, her son wasn’t sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal’s office. John, who has ADHD and finds it soothing to fidget during class, had been removed from the classroom after he refused to stop using a pair of safety scissors to cut his cut

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts were quick to send devices home with students and to provide digital resources that may have been engaging, but may not have been as “data safe” as districts thought. Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s Note: This three-part series seeks to identify the problem to act on, rather than approach each challenge as isolated. In part one, we addressed the teacher shortage and found that it is not the problem, it is a challenge. In part two, we addressed student attrition, loss of enrollment to any alternatives, and found that it too, is not the problem.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Suppose you were to research or Google the qualities of effective leaders. In that case, all you would come up with are the typical characteristics such as good communication, ability to make difficult decisions, having a vision, models, and listening intently, to name a few. What doesn’t show up in routine searches is humility. There is a strong link between this trait and effective leadership.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School is not a typical K–12 campus. When SVAHS Technology Director Joshua Shearer recently upgraded the school’s wireless network, he provided faster, stronger Wi-Fi connectivity, both in traditional classrooms and in unique learning environments, including barns full of goats, pigs and other animals. The public school in Northampton, Mass., educates 550 students across 15 vocational programs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The post Essentials of Effective Math Instruction for English Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A few years ago, it seemed like social-emotional learning was rocketing into the mainstream. More people were talking about why it is important and how it can help kids develop. Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you have been to one of the Learning Counsel’s Learning Leadership Symposiums, you know there is something very special about the Guest Administrator Panel Discussions. On these panels are some of the top minds in education, but what makes these discussions really special is the panelists don’t pull any punches. In the recent symposium for New York and New Jersey, the panel consisted of Kimberly Ramones, Executive Director of Student Support and Operations for New York City Geographic D

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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.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A teacher stands in front of a screen in a north central Texas schoolroom. A few miles away, the mother of a middle school student sits down at her kitchen table, pulls out her laptop, clicks on a meeting link and is soon getting updates from her son’s teacher without ever leaving her home. It’s parent-teacher conference time at Lewisville Independent School District, and another important meeting has begun.

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Hapara

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Wolf Creek Public Schools faced many challenges in their expansive division, including achievement level gaps and high student needs. So, they decided to make a change to address the needs of all learners. . Nestled in the rural territory of Alberta, Canada, Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) consists of 29 schools that serve over 7,300 K-12 students, including 10% or 750 who self-identify as First Nations, Inuit or Metis. .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The problem with infrastructure is that it tends to be expensive. And slow to build. And hard to maintain. Oh, and also kind of boring. Most people only notice it when it collapses, like an old bridge. People with typical imaginations have trouble envisioning new infrastructure before it exists. They can grow so accustomed to their daily problems that they don’t pause to wonder whether a solution is possible.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By Jamie Bricker and Jack Barclay In our previous column, The Pillars of Principalship, we stressed the importance of establishing foundational pieces that will provide the underlying support and structure for all stakeholders and all day-to-day school operations. Administrators must now focus on both establishing new and enhancing existing working relationships with all staff members.

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Speaker: Amanda Davis, Chief Experience Officer and Liam O'Malley, VP of Association Solutions

The "new normal" is now a little less new, a little more normal. Does that mean your current LMS strategy is in need of a refresh? Is your organization or association leaning into the always-evolving eLearning environment to ensure you have the tools and content to remain relevant through all this change? There are many complex decision-making processes within your learning & development strategy and LMS lifecycle management, including: Selection.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The coming years are set to see a slowdown — if not an outright stop — in the emergency government funding that supported many K–12 school districts throughout the pandemic and beyond. The technology solutions districts purchased and relied on during that time, notably subscription-based software applications, now present a problem: The money will stop, but subscription fees won’t.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The post Halloween Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Who’s ready for a little Halloween fun? Try Halloween Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings! I’ve created a Halloween-themed magnetic poetry template with Google Drawings for you and your students. There are nearly 100 words in this one, so adapt the words that are appropriate for your grade levels.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Imagine 9-year-old Alejandra who listens quietly for gun shots in the hall after seeing the news about the Uvalde school shooting. Her teacher notices she has difficulty staying focused in class. Or imagine 14-year-old Kai whose mother is suffering from the lingering effects of coronavirus. Formerly a fun-loving and outgoing student, he keeps to himself these days and his grades have dropped.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

By Charles Sosnik I read a piece in one of the weekly education publications; a superintendent had been quoted warning of the funding cliff coming in two years. This supe seemed to be making the best of it, not spending his stimulus money so he could avoid the unavoidable cliff. I couldn’t tell whether the supe was taken out of context, but I have to believe he was.

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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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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Student mental health is in a state of crisis, with 70 percent of school districts reporting an increase in the number of students seeking mental health services as the 2021-2022 school year came to a close, The Washington Post reports. Schools are looking to address the situation: There’s been an almost 26 percent increase in social-emotional learning tools purchased during the last school year compared with the year before.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. This story also appeared in National Public Radio. “I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” The hardest part about being a new college student, Malak said, “is not the coursework. It’s learning how to be an adult.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I recently asked a teacher friend how the school year was going. She said that since August, COVID protocols have been manageable and work feels almost normal, but she shared that while she’s grateful and relieved, she regularly worries about things “getting bad again”—whether it’s another wave of COVID or some other disruption shutting schools down or putting undue burdens on staff and students.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By Essie Sutton Educators are becoming increasingly concerned about their students’ mental health and well-being. Research has shown that isolation and loneliness were often associated with psychological symptoms across childhood and adolescence even before the pandemic. Now, researchers are reporting findings that indicate that the social distancing and stay-at-home measures implemented at the beginning of the pandemic resulted in increased reports of depression and anxiety among students.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

When personal cellphones became the norm, K–12 leaders had to decide what would be allowed in school. These decisions started as a patchwork of individual teacher, administrator or district decisions. Over time, however, it became clear there was a need for agreed-upon parameters. Whether it was a complete ban on cellphones or limitations during class time, schools had to create systems in the best interest of teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The past two years have been immensely difficult for our nation’s students and teachers. In the wake of the isolation and trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health and behavioral challenges are on the rise as students continue to process unprecedented amounts of stress, anxiety, and grief. The decline in child and adolescent mental health has been so great that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Associatio

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It was spring 2022 and we were completing our first full year of in-person learning since the start of the pandemic. The kids had been through so much. We all had. Throughout 2020 and 2021, my students, colleagues and I were in and out of the building between virtual, hybrid and in-person learning because of closures and frequent quarantine periods.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2022

By Colleen Robinson Education is an ever-changing and adapting trade that has educators constantly evolving to the conditions around us. Like the banded snails that continue to transform their colors to adapt to the climate change surrounding them, us educators find ourselves preparing students for a coming climate unknown to us and in unique technologically expanding times.

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Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Have you ever caught an employee sleeping during training? Compelling content is paramount, but trying to do so with the same tools you've always used is complicated, right? Wrong! Powerpoint has excellent features that, with a bit of creativity, can help you improve your presentations and keep your people engaged without going over budget. By utilizing newer components that enable interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks

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