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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

Unfortunately, current learner navigation systems more closely resemble the early, self-contained GPS devices with incomplete and inaccurate maps. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems. K-12 learners.

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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

The Hechinger Report

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Using multiple systems and apps.

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Tomorrow’s New Normal: What It Means for Professional Development

edWeb.net

Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. The positives were that we banded together as a system to try to fill in those gaps, whether it was training gaps, infrastructure, or device gaps.”. Approach to PD.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Dr. Morton Sherman has more than 30 years’ administrative experience in raising academic standards, closing achievement gaps, and uniting stakeholders He has served in public education for over 40 years, 25 as a public school superintendent of schools.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

An inter-agency taskforce that includes the Rhode Island’s Governor’s Office launched PrepareRI in 2017 “to create a K-12 education system that is aligned with the demands of colleges and employers.”

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

With school budgets already limited by a conservative-led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education , the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data-driven system of early intervention. The results have been impressive.

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