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ParentSquare Partners with MyVRSpot to Enhance Video Messaging to K-12 School-Home Engagement Platform

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” Educators that participated in the initial pilot testing with ParentSquare and MyVRSpot are eager to begin implementing this new video capability school- and district-wide. and handles the backend video transcoding and hosting needs for several state and local government agencies, not for profits, and corporate entities.

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Demystifying the role of the school board director

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The trustee approach has the advantage of allowing school directors to consider all available information, some of which might not be widely known by the general public because, for example, they aren’t participating in board work sessions that allow school directors to dive deeply into all aspects of an issue.

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Can Colleges Reach Beyond Campus to Foster ‘Digital Equity’ in Communities?

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The Orangeburg approach is an example of the role higher education could play in helping to get millions of people of all backgrounds, income levels and parts of the country connected to high-quality internet in order to more-fully participate in the modern world—a concept that some advocates have started to call “ digital equity.”

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Election Organizing Went Online This Year With Help From Students Too Young to Vote

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School Board Elections Although presidential races naturally attract the most election attention, students are often more directly affected by local school board races. That’s one of the theories driving the work of Student Voice, a nonprofit that helps high school and college students participate in education-policy decisions.

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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

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Despite widespread publicity, this student could not find one wildfire victim who had successfully participated in the program. Sheliya then brokered an agreement between local government officials and Airbnb to publish more data on the effectiveness of these types of programs in the city.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

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What do they look like in terms of the active participation of teachers and students? This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. How do these DEI concepts play out in your districts? AR: [One of the U.S. We started looking more closely at how our students were using tech in the classroom.

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Districts put DEI into action

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What do they look like in terms of the active participation of teachers and students? This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. How do these DEI concepts play out in your districts? AR: [One of the U.S. We started looking more closely at how our students were using tech in the classroom.

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