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How digital books connect vulnerable students with reading

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So when it comes to reading, sometimes success can look like a student simply picking up a book. In my classroom, students generally read below grade level. Confidential access to digital books for readers of all abilities.

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Leveraging AI to help special education teachers

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Creating reading level-appropriate text can be another tedious task for special education teachers. This can be used for students with either higher- or lower-level reading needs. In this case, AI can essentially serve as an on-demand instructional coach for special education teachers. MagicSchool.ai MagicSchool.ai

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Vivi and Headspace Partner to Bring Mindfulness to K-12 Classrooms

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By pairing Vivi’s emoji-based polling ability with Headspace’s mindfulness practices, teachers can administer a quick, confidential, whole-class check-in to get a temperature read on how students are feeling about the day or lesson, and then offer targeted support to those students in need.

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5 Internet Safety Tips for Teachers

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This could expose confidential student data, compromise work communications, and even jeopardize the safety of those around you. Phishing Attacks Fraudsters frequently use misleading emails, phone calls, SMSs, social media DMs, and other digital channels to deceive victims and extract confidential information.

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This $90M Education Research Project Is Banking on Data Privacy to Drive Insights

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Another aspect where he sees the project opening new doors for researchers is the diversity of the student populations represented by the learning platform partners, which include education apps for reading, writing and science along with learning management systems. “By

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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

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Liabenow says one of his confidentiality concerns is over any teacher, counselor or administrator who might want to use an AI program to manage student data about mental health or discipline — something that has the potential to end with a lawsuit. How many of us have downloaded the updated agreement for our iPhone without reading it?”

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The Unintentional Ways Schools Might Be Violating FERPA, and How They Can Stay Vigilant

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But if the principal reads a report about that same incident, she can’t talk about it publicly. Rooker explains that this is because what the principal read was an education record, which FERPA protects. The teacher who saw the incident in-person can speak about it because FERPA is not a confidentiality law.