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What Schools Look for in Vendors: Building Trust and Credibility

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If a product does not directly support learning outcomes or classroom efficiency, it is unlikely to be considered. Ensure compliance with state and district education policies and learning frameworks. Failure to meet these requirements can result in rejection, regardless of a product’s quality.

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Teaching Without a Self

Faculty Focus

In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. Further, when we relax the assumption that we are all separate selves , it becomes clearer that all participants’ behaviors are embedded in and conditioned by society and the environment.

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Teaching Without a Self

Faculty Focus

In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. Further, when we relax the assumption that we are all separate selves , it becomes clearer that all participants’ behaviors are embedded in and conditioned by society and the environment.

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Design Thinking Is a Challenge to Teach — and That’s a Good Thing

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Earlier this summer, I traveled to Dallas to participate in a training on design thinking led by staff from Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design , better known as the d.school, which pioneered the approach. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Is It All Worth It?

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North Carolina Educators Praise Alef Education for Closing Math Learning Gaps With Its Innovative Digital Platform

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Alef Education , a leading global education technology provider that empowers 21st century learning, partnered with NexGen Education to offer all North Carolina districts access without any cost. The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades. For more information, visit [link].

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

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With the looming threat of students taking advantage of gap year opportunities for the 2020 to 2021 school year, and the unknown of just how long COVID-19 will last, colleges must commit ample resources to ensure high-quality learning for the students who decide to brave the unchartered waters of online, remote education for the fall 2020 semester.

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