Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 176

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. These days Short is a program director at the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association.

Data 163

Data Learning Advocacy System 163

The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 26, 2024

But last week, LuzMaria informed me of a special request. An elementary school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan had some student journalists who wanted to interview me about my life and work. Advocacy takes time and persistence, but the more you keep advocating this way, the more likely you are to achieve your goal.

Advocacy 150

Advocacy Meeting Elementary Study 150

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 system, the context for OER will vary across states and districts, across institutional types (regular public schools, charter schools, and private schools), across school levels (elementary, middle and high school), and across technological reliance and sophistication of schools (online/blended programs versus more traditional classrooms).

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OER Instructional Materials Meeting Advocacy 170

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Similar to how high school students use platforms like Common App and Naviance for college research, parents could utilize AI tools like ChatGPT to gather information, compare kindergartens based on their criteria and explore potential options, effectively using AI as a personalized school recommendation system.

Policies 72

Policies Comparison System Data 72

eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rivera also serves as the Past President of the Board of Directors for the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), a nonpartisan organization of public officials who head state departments of elementary and secondary education. For more information about ALAS, visit [link]. Dr. Frank Rodriguez, Director, Region 7 Southeast.

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Secondary Advocacy Future Ready Elementary 101

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

Competency Based Learning 143

Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

The way we access information and interact with each other is new. Related: To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade Number two: Youth ambassador opportunities that develop leadership and advocacy skills. We see problems and solutions differently from the adults around us.

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STEM Advocacy Robotics iPhone 120

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC–based national policy, practice, and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship. extra-state jurisdictions.

Future Ready 100

Future Ready Secondary Advocacy Elementary 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn. We have to do more.”

Elementary 133

Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 133

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

Instructional Materials 124

Instructional Materials Training Advocacy Elementary 124

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our mission within the Office of Information and Analysis is to provide solutions that support more effective teaching and learning. With this information in hand, we’re able to curate individual, department, themed, and other collections that we know will engage more students.

Data 106

Data Libraries Advocacy eBook 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

Advocacy 123

Advocacy Report Study Training 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. In Vancouver,a shelter provider had to inform callers to its housing hotline that they might have to stay in their car for two weeks before they could get help.

Elementary 136

Elementary Report Advocacy Secondary 136

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In elementary school, the classroom teacher often serves that function. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. We worked with an elementary school that had multi-grade wings for long-term personalization. All criteria should be available for review. Finally, follow your process.

Strategy 164

Strategy Differentiated Instruction Elementary Advocacy 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

Survey 188

Survey Advocacy Study Social Media 188

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

More importantly, this information would have stayed with Jason as he progressed through school. It is important to note that secondary and elementary assessment systems will be different. Additional assessments should be introduced only when more information is needed to develop an individualized action plan.

Assessment 169

Assessment Education Handbook Data 169

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Winners and finalists were selected by a panel of educators and industry experts who reviewed the submissions and judged the products and services based on the extent to which they are transforming education through the development or advocacy of edtech. For more information go to www.gocoderz.com.

Robotics 106

Robotics Tools STEM Advocacy 106

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools. Vanessa, you are the parent of a transgender child and you've spoken about the desire to make your story an advocacy piece.

Policies 158

Policies Advocacy Conference Survey 158

N2Y

DECEMBER 17, 2020

However, as this article written for the Council for Exceptional Children points out, the concept of leadership is preserved when the emphasis is on asking the child about what is important and using that information to create new goals. As you work with your student on self-advocacy, speak openly about their disability and learning needs.

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Meeting Advocacy Elementary Examples 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

But parents and advocates argue the shortened days, often referred to as informal removals , amount to discrimination and violations of students’ civil rights. Experts appointed by the court to research the issue found that about 1,000 Oregon students with disabilities — most of them in elementary school — are on shortened schedules.

Advocacy 114

Advocacy Elementary Report Training 114

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

On April 20, Kentwood Elementary in Los Angeles opened its doors to students. At Creekside Elementary in Durham, North Carolina, kindergarten enrollment is down by 35 students. Some basic information would be useful to schools. It was news Lauren Phillips, 37, had been waiting for. Credit: Carla Suarez-Capdet. “We

Learning 135

Learning Elementary Data Report 135

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

Case Study 134

Case Study Advocacy Study Elementary 134

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

Only when there is a trained and certified school librarian present are students taught essential inquiry and information literacy skills aligned to PA Core and Academic Standards, as outlined in the Pennsylvania Library Model Curriculum. From Kim Borden’s Plainfield Elementary School Library Reopening Plan and COVID Response.

Libraries 118

Libraries Elementary Future Ready Academic Standards 118

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The bill , which won bipartisan support from the state’s senate and assembly, would require the New Jersey Department of Education to develop learning standards across K-12 in media and information literacy. Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media.

Digital Divide 135

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 135

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

Elementary 145

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 145

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

As observed in Part I of EdSurge’s report on school data, parents say insights from data dashboards allows them to make informed decisions about their children’s school experience and helps the community hold local officials accountable to promises for improvements. Coreas has also learned to advocate for her children with data.

Libraries 114

Libraries Data Learning iPhone 114

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

We have already made the most informed choices with the information that’s available. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. But this school year brings a new kind of uncertainty, not just for us, but for every teacher, administrator and district across the nation.

Online Learning 145

Online Learning Learning Advocacy Personalized Learning 145

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Digital Promise. URL: www.digitalpromise.org.

Future Ready 100

Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2018

Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/econ for more information and remember to tweet out your pics about how you teach your students using #PowerofEcon. It’s a really fun way to introduce financial literacy quiz questions, like Quiz Bowl format, questions in classrooms, anywhere from elementary to high school students. Listen Now.

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Future Ready Twitter Company Resources 211

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

But providing this additional information for students does not need to be a big lift and can be done in partnership with campus staff, such as career services counselors. However, there are hundreds of jobs, such as public policy research and advocacy, with which students may not be as familiar. see College Scorecard ).

Mobility 122

Mobility Advocacy Course Examples 122

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

Training 157

Training Advocacy Resources Instructional Materials 157

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. In past years, these programs met societal and student needs through instruction on culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed education, conscious leadership and many other progressive approaches.

Education 133

Education Policies Advocacy Outcomes 133

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. The people who are most likely to relay that information should be recognized, too.

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Secondary Report Advocacy Elementary 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

That’s because some of today’s learners graduate without ever being required to process information, think critically or seek paths forward that are not explicitly spelled out for them. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated. They should be.

Competency Based Learning 131

Competency Based Learning Policies Advocacy Report 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a spring survey in California, nearly one-third of Spanish-speaking families said that they could not understand the distance learning information sent home by their children’s schools. American schools are overwhelmingly English-only environments — and too often, this can make them hostile spaces for English learners and their families.

Education 145

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 145

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Under these conditions, it is especially difficult to push forward critical information skills and to engage in the kind of collaborations that enable librarians to integrate these skills. In some cases, libraries are closed so that schools can space kids out. In some cases, schools are doubling down on delivering curriculum.

Advocacy 81

Advocacy Libraries Broadband System 81