eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

While my colleague was asked to lead a grade-level team, I was tapped to head up the school’s Black History Month programming. Through dogged persistence, informal guidance from fellow leaders of color, and my fair share of luck, I became a principal and, later, a district superintendent.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This VFT was created in partnership with The Home Depot® for the program Science Fair Central , a suite of no-cost resources designed to STEAM-power classrooms and homes across the country as students prepare for the careers of tomorrow. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Yet, observations that paint a fair, accurate picture of teachers’ strengths and areas of need can play a crucial role in their professional growth. Intuitive search tools also provide instant access to observation histories and other relevant information.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Several fellows also craved more learning experiences that reflected their everyday lives, whether that comes via more experiential learning opportunities or through bringing in personal histories to classrooms and curriculum. Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

On the heels of the landmark E-rate Modernization Order (aka E-rate 2.0), funding year 2016 is poised to be one of the largest funding years in program history with an estimated funding cap of over four billion dollars. We want to help you apply for and get your fair share of available funding. changes; and the steps to apply.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

On the heels of the landmark E-rate Modernization Order (aka E-rate 2.0), funding year 2016 is poised to be one of the largest funding years in program history with an estimated funding cap of over four billion dollars. We want to help you apply for and get your fair share of available funding. changes; and the steps to apply.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others and experience things they would otherwise never have known.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Alex was an enthusiastic 9th grader in my World History course and had just been issued a Chromebook as part of our district’s 1:1 implementation. After three months, Alex finally told me that he did not have internet access at home. This proactive approach helped build community support and engage others with our access challenges.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Today, I teach world history and geography to newcomers in a Title I school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where nearly 60 percent of the 1,550 students enrolled in our school are Hispanic and speak Spanish, and many speak a Mayan dialect. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Allowing them access to the books–and characters–they are interested in is imperative to building a culture of reading in schools. Licensed nonfiction books explain more complicated topics like science or history through the voice of a known and loved character. Simply engaging in reading practice is foundational.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. However, it usually doesn’t. We do not know what future challenges face us, but we do know that one day they will arrive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2021

Like many of the other languages used in coding, SQL has a fairly extensive history, having originally been developed almost half a century ago. The significance of accessibility.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

Common Cyber Threats Facing Educators Every profession has had its fair share of internet-based troubles. Account Breaches Cybercriminals can deploy a variety of techniques, including hacking and credential stuffing, to unlawfully gain access to online profiles. Controlling who gets access to Zoom classrooms with the help of passcodes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Then the library makes that source material available and easily accessible to all. Reidel has been teaching high school civics and history for over two decades. history and civics class—are also things that I'll take back as my project. The Teacher-in-Residence program is about 20 years old, and it invites one U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

colleges got into the democracy business, and you may get a bit of a history lesson. It’s very easy to do a service learning experience but not learn that we don’t have free and fair elections in some parts of this country. “What are we not going to equivocate on and not be willing to settle on?” ‘No That’s one of Morgan’s theories.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. More importantly, students will have better access to lessons designed specifically for their learning style. — Suren Aloyan , Co-Founder & CEO, PopUp EduTech, Inc.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We’re honored to introduce this new award in partnership with the Council of the Great City Schools to recognize Dick’s lasting legacy, and to expand opportunities for students through access to high-quality, engaging print and digital resources.”. The Council is extremely grateful to Scholastic for creating the Richard M.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. The group points to a history of price increases by the publishers, and argues that once students and colleges become accustomed to these new digital arrangements, the publisher will raise prices.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

We taught sixth-grade students ancient history through an archaeology simulation we developed on black-and-white Macintosh computers. Yet at the same time, I was also dismayed by the enormous challenges many learners face just trying to gain access to affordable, basic, high-quality education. Which brings me to.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

This crisis has severely limited affordable and accessible child care options for families, and the burden falls particularly heavily on working parents, especially mothers, who have had to juggle work and child care responsibilities. Normally, I prioritize paying my employee, but now I can ensure fair compensation for my own efforts.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You might explore equity issues, like whether it’s fair that wealthy countries that created the problem by putting carbon in the atmosphere in the past are now asking less developed countries, which haven’t contributed as much, to stop what they’re doing. It was hard to attract enough teachers to these areas.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Nothing frustrates researchers and librarians like material they know exists but can’t be easily accessed. Townsend Gard has vivid memories of being a graduate student in history trying to figure out if she could use works from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s for her dissertation on narratives about World War I. If Kahle et al.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In her 2018 bestseller “ The Library Book ,” author Susan Orlean uses the history of a fire that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 to explore transformations that libraries and librarians have undergone over the last hundred years. librarians) are the ones who decide where they want to go and live with those choices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Since his days as an elementary student in Texas, Richard Collins has loved history. Through studying my family history I became interested in education reform issues including charter schools, scholarship programs, better pay and career ladders for teachers. Eisenhower to some of his own ancestors. Now as the Chairman and CEO of.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. More importantly, students will have better access to lessons designed specifically for their learning style. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The mandate made New Jersey second in the nation to implement such a measure; California’s so-called FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) was passed in 2011. We're going to do LGBTQIA history now." We’re focusing on collaboration, communication and resilience, specifically. How do we find resources? How do we talk with teachers?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

You look back on the history of other benefits, and often they were driven by some sort of market force, or a desire to either enhance an employer experience or drive to parity,” says Guild’s CEO and co-founder, Rachel Carlson. I think there's a movement around fair scheduling that's really important.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Siemens: It seemed like a good opportunity to expand the audience and get a message out about the importance and history of openness, and where things might be trending. Faculty that don’t want to access the content in edX can easily download and use any of content we’ve developed. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

For the first time in competition history, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge will also recognize entrants with an honorable mention award. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 140 countries and territories. Bolles School-Bartram, Private Moitri Santra , Oviedo, Fla.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 23, 2016

For years, it was a fairly simple process of monitoring history and blocking certain search terms. So not only do parents need to be allowed to access their child’s devices, they also need a complete list of usernames and passwords so that they can log in and see what is going on. It’s not all on Facebook anymore.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2015

And that paper form that was copied in triplicate–now it’s an online tool that can be accessed, edited, appended, and viewed by everyone involved. You can playback the history tool, which makes it a video of the mindmap’s development, adding one piece at a time. That required an upgrade. Insider tips. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Even now, as testing has resumed—albeit with social distancing, face coverings and limited seating—access to testing centers is not equal, nor equitable. This also includes access to preparation materials such as study guides and prep courses. We think that will alleviate access concerns that are very real,” Godwin said.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2017

Because work is created and shared in the Cloud, users can access it from Internet-connected locations by logging into their Google account. Revision history. You can find this option under File>See Revision History (or click Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H) and it comes up in the right sidebar. Great for writers work shops.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Beaudoin: It's fair to say that faculty are extremely concerned about the likelihood of the spread of the virus on campus. Sometimes it's been harder to access instructors through email and office hours. I understand there's a debate going on at Purdue among faculty about the comfort level around teaching in classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. Only affluent universities and technology companies had access to experiment with what AI could mean in the future.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

I know that you've been in a fair number of classrooms, both at the K-12 level and the higher education level. The innovation labs that we were working with wanted to focus on minority communities that didn't really have access to technology. The amount of care and concern you guys put into the well-being of others, it's amazing.

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