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Edtech gone rogue? Tackling “Dirty Stream” attacks amidst uncontrolled app overloads

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In 2024, the Government Coordinating Council (GCC) for the Education Facilities Subsector was established–an initiative uniting federal, state, and local governments to provide schools with necessary counsel and resources for strengthening their cyber resilience.

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LearnWell Names Ardena White as VP of District Mental Health Partnerships

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LearnWell partners with K-12 school districts, hospitals and treatment facilities, and families to support students’ mental health wellness through service offerings such as the following: Virtual Counseling services for students with emerging mental health needs and students recently discharged from mental health treatment.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

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Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. Two Major Battles’ Kelli Frazier, now a counselor at Bowie Middle School and colleague of Ibarra, was undertaking her counseling internship during the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Many of my students who are already successfully applying their extensive knowledge and skills on class assignments and extracurricular activities are told that because they cannot demonstrate mastery of academic content through a specific set of conditions, they have failed.

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What student choice and agency actually looks like

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CICS West Belden enables students to choose resources and assignments through “menus.” Students are counseled on how to interpret their data and know that if certain formative assessments show areas of weakness, they should go back and work on them before requesting an assessment.

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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

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The tangled web of grading, posting assignments, and communicating with students—plus maintaining an engaging and supportive instructor presence, much less high academic standards—often turned confusion into chaos.

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This District Helps Young Kids Identify Their Interests — and Ideal Careers

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Hidalgo once visited an elementary class where students discussing “Charlotte’s Web” assigned interest codes to the different characters and relating themselves to each character’s actions. ”I That tracks with how programs like World of Work should ideally be designed, says Poynton, the UMass professor who studies career counseling.