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JUNE 5, 2020

Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. That effort was fueled partly by a belief that no student should have to fork out $100 for a physical graphing calculator ever again. “Math isn’t just the regurgitation of formulas.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

BOSTON (October 1, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has released its “Educator Perceptions of Teaching and Learning in Fall 2021,” a research brief exploring educators’ expectations for the 2021-2022 academic year. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com. About Cambium Learning Group.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

“When students listen to audiobooks or watch audio media, they are able to become experienced with different cultures, dialects, and beliefs (Parmeter, p.24). Finding the Education in Educational Technology with Early Learners. Technology and Young Children. & Eastern Washington University.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? But those beliefs persist. Beliefs about science can become entangled with our self-identities, even if they didn’t start out that way.”.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

This concept derives out of the belief that constant betterment can only be achieved when certain needs are mastered. It should come as no surprise that education technology has revolutionized and changed the way teachers teach and students learn. This motivational theory is commonly referred to as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

Based on his work, CASEL says that developing self-awareness with an equity lens can help students and adults “examine what it means to belong to a group or community, including how ethnicity and race impacts one’s sense of self and beliefs,” and “recognize biases and understand how thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected.”

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. I could pour even more energy into helping kids learn how to build community if AI helped them build their academic skills.

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MAY 26, 2020

Our approach is rooted in the belief that all families, regardless of circumstance, can benefit from coaching. We are—thankfully—not alone in this belief. The program is offered at our school in East Palo Alto, California, where most of the community is low-income.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.” You are not a gangster.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically. One component of this rubric is dedicated to assessing the classroom environment and within this component, there’s something special we look for — we call it “belief and belonging.”

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

"[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.". But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Despite strong beliefs among some parents and advocates, there’s only limited research about whether recreational screen time is itself bad for kids, according to Hartshorne. How hybrid schooling stacked up with regard to screen time was more ambiguous, perhaps in part because that concept means different things in different places.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. When you go back and revisit your writing on the subject, how well does it align with your beliefs now? Ultimately, we want to determine how effectively we articulate our beliefs and in what contexts.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. As education, technology and nonprofit leaders, we must adopt successful strategies, prioritize and move forward.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Education is a complicated system, and there are many things that contribute to the achievement gap. There is also a very strong belief in our society that you can do maths or you can’t—that you're kind of hardwired to be good at maths or not.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Zeal Capital stood out to PayPal because of our shared belief that access to financial services creates opportunity,” said Mario Ruiz, who led PayPal’s investment in Zeal’s new fund, in a statement. PayPal made a commitment to fight racial economic inequality, and venture capital funding is a key component of that.”

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MAY 20, 2024

School culture is the set of implicit assumptions, beliefs and expectations that drive the activities and behaviors within a school. Similarly, assessment culture is shaped by the underlying beliefs and expectations that students, educators and leaders have about assessment practices.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This research was part of a yearlong study we led, examining how our sharply divergent attitudes and beliefs about climate change are shaped by news and information we encounter, curate, engage with and share. Our survey delved into why some students are distrustful or ambivalent while others still have hope in the midst of gloom.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

That’s the premise of a nonprofit called The Bell, started in New York City by 2017 by two former teachers with a journalism background and a belief that one way to improve education is to elevate the voices of students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

PHOENIX — Bluum , a leading provider of education technology, this week named Dan Groskreutz its new chief financial officer (CFO). Bluum was founded on the belief that access to education is the catalyst for human progress.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Over the summer, academics debated the impact of growth mindset, the belief that one’s intelligence can be developed with hard work and effort, and whether it can move the needle on academic performance. Students see evidence that their hard work is paying off and buy into the growth-oriented belief system.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What beliefs or values do you hold that may show up in unproductive ways during instruction? These questions help unearth potentially problematic beliefs and ideals white teachers may hold in hopes that they will use these reflections to build environments where students feel safe to engage with triggering or emotionally charged content.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s common to hear well educated adults declare themselves “not a math person,” sometimes proudly. This belief is wrong. Change the belief that mathematical ability is inborn, focusing on parents’ attitudes and how they are communicated to children.

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JULY 13, 2022

The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning. For example, Bloom has conducted research about how inviting students to act out violent scenes using Play the Knave informs their beliefs about violence in their own communities. “We

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2024

The 2024 CODiE Awards honored 40 education technology products across 35 categories, with an additional eight companies receiving recognition in the education technology leadership categories. The SIIA Innovation Showcase highlights innovators and startups with less than $1 million in revenue.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

How do my background and beliefs potentially bias my work as an educator? Many educators have an image of equity in their minds that only relates to race. While both of these groups of students are the same race, they likely receive very different educational experiences.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The second is “encouraging and available instructors” who demonstrate an interest in students’ learning and a belief in their abilities. The first is “classroom interactions that acknowledge students” by listening carefully to their questions and making sure they understand concepts.

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JULY 21, 2020

These feelings are both natural and toxic, because they represent our limiting beliefs that cause paralysis and fear instead of agency and action. Pay attention to the stories we take in as beliefs , who and what we listen to, and what we’re telling ourselves. Address this as an active practice.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related. I also recognize that is not the case for the majority of educators in classrooms.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. In the past year, many educational institutions began to address the challenge of digital misinformation.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

One might assume that, since focus and productivity were not easy by-products of this environment, anyone experiencing it would come out with a firm belief in the value of walls. Fifth graders threw pencils, and sometimes shoes, over the bookshelves and into my classroom. But I did not. Instead, I learned to embrace the open classroom.

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JUNE 11, 2024

And how do students feel about these options at a time of growing skepticism about higher education? This is the fifth episode of a podcast series we’re calling Doubting College , where we’re exploring: What happened to the public belief in college?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And not long ago, legislation passed in the Indiana House , prohibiting teaching or assessments that may “affect the student’s attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent.” When asked for my advice, I tell educators to avoid acronyms (they’re weaponized) and continue doing what’s right for kids.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. So now we’re talking about student ownership and student agency.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity.

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