eSchool News

MAY 25, 2016

Librarians and media specialists are bridging the gap between instruction and technology. With more than 20 years of experience in instructional technologies and K-12 education under her belt, Joquetta L. Johnson says that with the Information Age, librarians have effectively transformed into instructional technology leaders.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2016

School district leaders’ top objective in transitioning to a digital curriculum is to achieve greater instructor effectiveness, according to a survey from The Learning Counsel. Providing technology training for teachers. Providing technology training for students. Advocating personalized paths of learning using resources.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Every Student Succeeds Act includes block grants intended for technology, among other uses. The legislation also includes a sizeable state block-grant program intended for technology, among other uses. Title IV, Part A includes three subparts, including one that speaks directly to technology in schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In the last five years, according to Amelia Vance, director of education privacy & policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), over 600 bills on the topic have been introduced and 125 new laws have passed in about 40 states. Andy Wallace, director of technology, South Portland (ME) Schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. There is a stigma about that topic, and I think it’s getting better, but sometimes it’s nerve-wracking if you’ve never been to the counseling center.” Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

It can be a reliable source of two meals a day, a refuge from an unstable home environment, or a way to access counseling and other mental health services. Would they have to stop counseling sessions? And I think that kind of helped draw them back into the right frame of mind to actually do a little bit of counseling.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

My days involve a combination of classroom counseling, meeting students in small groups and one-on-one sessions and consulting with staff and caregivers. We have enhanced our community partnerships to include an on-site mental health clinician as well as telehealth counseling for students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Technology-mediated advising is an increasingly popular reform that has the potential to offset these limitations and empower advisors and other support staff to more effectively reach underrepresented students. Technology systems provide insight into subgroup differences. Advising technologies help integrate support services.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a group of six Democratic senators sent letters last week to three proctoring companies—ExamSoft, Proctorio and ProctorU—inquiring about the technologies they use to monitor users, how they ensure accuracy and what steps they take to protect students’ privacy. but also ‘Should we do this?’

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the end of each school year at Central High School, seniors grab a paint pen and write their post-graduation plans on a glass wall outside the counseling office. PAUL, Minn. — For many, that means announcing what college they’ve enrolled in. But the goal is to celebrate whatever path students are choosing, whether at a college or not. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Career counseling, exploration, and placement services are online,” said Carlos O. president of San Diego Continuing Education, “and we have held several online job fairs over the past several weeks using Zoom.” To do this, colleges must integrate advanced technologies into training to remain viable going forward.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout. The technology company has developed a robust, clinician-designed online therapy platform for their own network of teletherapy providers, and made a version of it available to schools during the pandemic. “The

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And since today’s school counselors work with all students in a school — through classroom instruction, small group, individual counseling and individual consultation — having those smaller ratios gives school counselors an opportunity to deliver information and curricula and … to address gaps around opportunity, equity and access.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. –Kelli Campbell, President, Discovery Education. –Michele Dick, Education Specialist, Wacom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Those have been our two major battles on the discipline front that go along with counseling,” Ibarra explained. After Covid, we saw an increase in aggression.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

The only way to do that is through technology.” A college counseling director at Taipei American School in Taiwan, Neill had searched for college counseling software that had more international offerings for his students. The software business may have made less money, but Pasari figured it had greater potential to scale. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

School counselors are not only an important influence in the lives of students, but research shows that students attending schools with lower counselor-to-student ratios were more engaged in higher-quality college counseling learning decisions, and in turn made more informed college decisions.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2020

In California, where PresenceLearning is based, acute shortages in licensed special educators have continued even as the percentage of special-needs students has grown. Her former colleagues from the test-prep giant later joined her to lead the company’s financial, technology and marketing operations.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Some states have gotten creative to increase the availability of mental health professionals in their schools, like turning to telehealth for counseling services. For school psychologists, only Idaho and Washington D.C. do better than the recommended ratio. Pierrottet offers. “It

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Many professors are still skeptical about utilizing smart phones in the classroom, but I believe we could get more professors on-board if entrepreneurs better understood the challenges and resistance faculty face to use mobile technologies. Here are 5 tips for entrepreneurs looking to make scalable impact in the community college market.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The district formed the position proactively, according to its leadership , because the community around the district had grown concerned that its increasing adoption of technology carried extra privacy risks. And the COVID pandemic brought a wave of new technology and increased technology use in schools across the country.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Counseling Students to Submit Applications Dorma Lozada, a senior at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, recalls going through the college application process herself a few years ago. After all, the enrollment rate of students who completed the Common App — 88.4 While the ratio of students to school counselors in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

The department ruled that parents or students cannot be required to waive their FERPA rights as a condition receiving a public education. It was the first major enforcement action taken in relation to education technology by the department. The education community can still submit technical-assistance requests.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Our goal this year is to support any teacher who is interested in bringing a robust understanding of the power grid or wind, solar or storage technologies to all of their students! –Peter Evans, CEO, Xtract One Technologies This school year we will see a continued focus on nurturing 21st century skills in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

The robot has technology to detect children’s faces and recognize individual users to turn on and start its lessons. The company has also participated in several education technology accelerator programs, including xEdu in Finland and Edstart by Amazon Web Services. Subjects include colors, animals and shapes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

How the Value of a Diploma Has Changed Just as teachers are navigating all the changes happening in education, so are students. Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

secondary schools and universities , where demand for counseling services is rapidly outstripping supply. Our thesis is that one route to effective SEL and preventive mental health lies at the intersection of character education, community building and traditional counseling center services. For example, community.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2022

Searching for a Salve One of the positive findings from the RAND survey, Doan noted, is that the majority of principals reported that their schools have at least one mental health support in place, such as counseling sessions, an employee assistance program or yoga classes. But these resources were not often tailored to the needs of staff.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The startup company provides telehealth counseling to middle and high school students through school districts. The way the service works is that a school counselor refers a student for teletherapy, and the company matches that student with a therapist to meet with the student via videoconference for a set number of counseling sessions.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I The “noncognitive traits” Sedlacek identified as crucial to college success are not fixed, he says, and colleges can teach them to students who arrive without them if the institutions have data about who needs tutoring, counseling and other resources.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Technology-enabled advising tools such as degree-planning software or predictive analytics are altering the status quo for many students, faculty and administrators. But impacts on daily life and work are perhaps most dramatic for those whose jobs are directly changing with the addition of these technologies: college advisors.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students. Based on this need, Aurora Public Schools was in the implementation stage when the Director of Mental Health and Counseling unexpectedly had to take a leave of absence.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Students will receive tailored counseling to build strong candidacies for elite colleges, as well as assistance with every facet of the admissions process during the college application season. AtomicMind also aims to help these students more easily obtain financial aid. A GPA of at least a 3.7/4.0 US residency. About AtomicMind.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

What community college students need is access to more flexible, personalized, individually-paced and low-cost programs to succeed — the perfect job for education technology. Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent.

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