The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In terms of young women, school counselors and really all educators can help young women and really all of our students learn more about computer science and technology by thinking about how it intersects with every area of interest. Today, people are working in groups. Angela: First of all, thanks so much for having me on your show.

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STEM Company Industry System 337

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Passing Legislation Is One Thing.

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Training Advocacy Resources Instructional Materials 151

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

It also raises new questions about what makes for good evidence in math education and pits well-designed quantitative studies of achievement gains against qualitative studies of people’s attitudes about math and why more women and people of color don’t enter STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.

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Report Groups Study Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

As the winter turns to spring and pandemic learning reaches its one-year mark, something like a return to normal, in-person schooling is becoming a reality in communities across the country. Until in-person learning can fully resume, family members are the only adults who regularly work with students on distance learning assignments.

Education 124

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 124

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In school, teaching executive function is likely to result in more self-directed students, who can learn from their mistakes, pivot, and re-engage with the subject matter and other people. Learn more about ExQ® at www.ExQInfiniteKnowHow.com. Learn more about Cerebral Matters® at www.CerebralMatters.com.

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Learning Training Advocacy Strategy 97

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2020

We have five Learning Revolution shows this week ("Teaching by Heart" is on hiatus, "Thrive in EDU is doing two back-to-back!). Times are US-Eastern Daylight Time--to see the schedule in your own time zone, and to get the links to attend live in Zoom, please use the SCHEDULE page on the Learning Revolution site.

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Advocacy Classroom Conference STEM 36

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

MIT OCW, Rice’s Connexions, my group at USU, and others applied the new Creative Commons licenses to their materials to create open content. UNESCO later decided to refer to open content intended to support research, teaching, and learning as “open educational resources.” A few observations about the OER and ZTC work.

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OER Advocacy Policies Libraries 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

For the next few hours, they are in school but they are also done learning for the day. According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 Even for groups with better benefits, the strain of the pandemic has started to take its toll. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

The combination of tactile exploration and innovative technology is a powerful package that will help transform the way students learn while in school, and I’m energized by the shared vision that its learning system will be used by many more school kids in the near term, in addition to the focus and dedication of the team leading Osmo.

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EdTech Advocacy Education Company 59

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Education Specialist, Digital Teaching & Learning, Utah State Board of Education; Nancy Mangum, Director of Learning Partnerships, Leading EDge Learning; Theresa Gibson, Director of Operations, Leading EDge Learning; and Darren Hudgins, Founder and CEO, Think Do Thrive.

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Technology Common Core EdTech Trends 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The recent local funding initiatives across the country are focused on younger children — namely infants and toddlers — more than ever before, said Diane Girouard, a senior state policy analyst with Child Care Aware, a nonprofit group that researches and advocates for child care access and funding. “In

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Report Policies Trends Advocacy 90

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Even with the NGSS’s emphasis on engineering, there’s still a feeling that in preschool and kindergarten, teachers shouldn’t place as much emphasis on the E in STEM. While four-year-olds can’t compete with even third graders in engineering, they can learn and benefit from modified lessons. Join the Community.

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Learning STEM Advocacy Secondary 45

ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This means a more diverse group of students are learning the skills needed to power the jobs of the future and grow our country’s technology and financial might. How and why Microsoft is encouraging women and young girls get involved with STEM and data science. link] #DataScience #STEM #GenderEquality pic.twitter.com/on3OpE8dVj.

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Microsoft Advocacy STEM Accessibility 47

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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Advocacy Survey Study System 162

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Additionally, the structured literacy approach is systematic, with a logical order to the skills and concepts being taught (usually progressing from the simplest to the most complex), cumulative, new learning builds on students’ prior knowledge, and diagnostic, instruction is informed by student data. Self Advocacy and Resources for Students.

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Advocacy STEM Resources System 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. But Mississippi’s law, unlike its Tennessee counterpart, affects students whose reading scores are very low, a much smaller group. And the clock is ticking. We have to do more.”

Elementary 92

Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. This group will partner with events, organizations and school districts to make sure student voices are always part of the conversation around equity in education.

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Social Media Advocacy Conference Report 75

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

This week on the Learning Revolution we have two new weekly live and interactive shows starting - " Thrive in EDU " with Rachelle Dene Poth and " Exceptional Circumstances for Exceptional Children " with Rebecca Muller. Next week we'll be announcing the book groups that are starting.

Classroom 36

Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And it raises questions about gender and race: How can schools inspire more girls and students of color to pursue STEM? Creating authentic learning opportunities to equip a diverse body of students to identify and solve the world’s problems will require risk and change. A student at William J.

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Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 89

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. That means approximately 1,600 teachers and 50,000 students are teaching and learning under this model, the group says.

Elementary 110

Elementary Advocacy Trends STEM 110

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Experience – Discovery Education’s flexible, award-winning K-12 learning platform connects educators to a vast collection of compelling high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, and professional learning resources. We believe this unique collaboration is a template that can be replicated nationwide.”.

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Education Social Media Professional Learning Resources 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 125

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

I realized that my students were accepting, or had accepted, or assumed that [the violence and] these socio-political realities of their community… are somehow an inevitability, or somehow reflective of the group of people who live in those communities—which is a predominantly black and immigrant community. It's not going to work like that.

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Twitter Technology Learning Advocacy 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. She clicked on icons embedded in the virtual classroom to learn about energy-saving features such as LED lights and super-insulated exterior walls made of concrete-filled foam blocks.

Elementary 99

Elementary Learning Data Report 99

techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Drug addiction, just like any addiction, isn’t limited to one group of people or community,” said Sean Fearns, chief of community outreach, DEA. Their collective stories of challenge, triumph and learning will underscore the far-reaching impact of the opioid crisis. Opioid Crisis: Real People. Real Stories. Real Science.’

Education 41

Education Advocacy Elementary Learning 41

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. It did not go over well. Credit: Mariana Sheppard. “A Racial stress fatigue.

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Report Meeting Groups Data 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Earlier this year, a survey of teens by the ECMC Group and VICE Media found that more than half believed they could be successful without a four-year college degree. The ECMC Foundation, an affiliate of the ECMC Group, is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Paul, Minn.,

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Report Training Advocacy Conference 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But the Spanish section also reflects a move at Cornell and more than two dozen other campuses to combat the notion that language learning belongs only in language classes. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Traditional language learning in the U.S. And few of them learned it in school. Opera in Italian?

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Course Study Report Policies 83

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

As hard as those first months were, the gradual return to in-person learning in fall 2020 was harder. Calen Evans, a STEM coordinator in the Washoe County School District and president of an advocacy group called Empower Nevada Teachers, is bracing himself for that change yet again. 15, 2021, in Elko, Nevada.

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Meeting Advocacy Report STEM 145

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

School leaders discuss their district approaches to Social Emotional Learning. One component of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires school leaders to measure students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) in order to gauge school success. We take a team approach, but our mindfulness initiative stems from the top.

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Survey Advocacy Training Exercises 46

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Students go beyond just learning about legitimate sources of information on the internet and delve into just how the information is put together in the first place. Students learned they can sabotage randomization in picking teams by setting up a line so they are one student away from their friend. “In

Digital Citizenship 75

Digital Citizenship Study Social Media Report 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Faculty are redesigning majors so the course offerings match what prospective transfer students are likely to have already learned. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. ” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters.

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Report STEM Course Comparison 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

and since learning inside was deemed dubious at best, the classroom was moved outdoors, where group gatherings were considered safe. Neither insufficient money, limited outdoor space, nor inclement weather should stand in the way of a school doing outdoor learning. In June, the group mobilized.

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Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 216

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

Share best programs and practices in advocating for and implementing global learning initiatives with educators around the country and the world. Ireland managed the Embassy Adoption Program, a global partnership program connecting dozens of embassies with DCPS classrooms for a year of cross-cultural learning and exchange.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Competency Based Learning Study Policies 49

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision to be that core mathematics curriculum because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons. enVision offers an innovative math curriculum that helps educators teach with confidence and inspires students with hands-on, problem-based learning.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 132

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

This story is a part of Lessons Learned , a series of stories exploring the evidence behind ideas to help children catch up and move ahead after the coronavirus pandemic. Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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Study Advocacy Training Groups 42