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A ‘New Normal’ Requires New Tools for Attendance and Family Engagement

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AllHere’s technology combines these evidence-based strategies with a chatbot that enables an extra layer of personalization and communication that we need more than ever during a time of crisis. A personalized alert regarding student absences (Credit: AllHere) Texting is the most effective—and equitable—way to communicate with families.

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How Higher Ed Institutions Are Strategically Managing Change

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But we don’t just implement the software; we provide advisory services around change management to help organizations reach their goals.” Systemwide changes tend to provoke a natural human reaction of resistance. Stakeholders question, “What’s in it for me?” This is known as the WIIFM factor.

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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

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This new research begs a bigger question for education leaders striving for more equitable outcomes: What kinds of relationship data do schools need to understand the trajectories their students are on, and the relationships and resources at their disposal? Others are betting on adoption first outside of traditional systems.

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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?

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It wasn’t about buy-in but instead helping teachers feel comfortable making changes successfully. Change management is crucial to this process. Most importantly, administrators encouraged and rewarded change efforts, supported teachers as they learned from mistakes or challenges and fostered communication and collaboration.

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The Thrill is Gone: What to Do When Your Course Doesn’t Excite You

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And students collectively tend to ask the same questions, get confused by the same concepts, and make the same questionable decisions about learning. Tired, ho-hum attitudes get communicated with all sorts of subtle cues, such as tone of voice, gestures, or facial responses to a question you’ve heard hundreds of times before.

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The Thrill is Gone: What to Do When Your Course Doesn’t Excite You

Faculty Focus

And students collectively tend to ask the same questions, get confused by the same concepts, and make the same questionable decisions about learning. Tired, ho-hum attitudes get communicated with all sorts of subtle cues, such as tone of voice, gestures, or facial responses to a question you’ve heard hundreds of times before.

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The Future Is Always Uncertain. So How Should Educators Prepare Today’s Learners?

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Our civic institutions are being swamped by questions that we’re not ready for.”. For education leaders, he said during his keynote, those questions should include: How can our schools make room for kids to tackle challenges and opportunities attached to significant, undefined problems—and ask them to do work they don’t think they can do? “You

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