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Celebrating the Future of Learning, One Region at a Time

Digital Promise

What began in Pittsburgh in 2016 has now expanded to new regions across the country, through a partnership with Remake Learning, PBS Kids, and Digital Promise. Inspire advocacy for more experiential learning in schools. What if there was a way to galvanize an entire community to champion and celebrate it?

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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

According to Census Bureau data from 2016, nearly 82 percent of all households in the U.S. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment. have an internet subscription of some kind.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education updated the threshold for chronic absenteeism in 2016-17 from 15 days to 10 percent of the school year, which equals 18 days in schools that are in session for 180 days a year. Correction: The U.S. An earlier version of this story cited the 15-day figure. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

In a study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, researchers monitored the brain activity of study participants as they confronted complex math problems that demanded creative mathematical reasoning.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

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Google, DonorsChoose Partner to Fund Culturally Responsive Classroom Materials

Edsurge

That upward trend has continued: Since 2016, such requests have increased 117 percent. Keya Wondwossen, the director of advocacy and public partnerships at DonorsChoose, drew on personal experiences to explain to reporters why this campaign is so important to her. And DonorsChoose is taking note. classrooms.

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