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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents. In April 2021, the district launched monthly parent advocacy meetings focused on restorative justice, literacy, and college and career readiness. Their trainings and materials were used across the country.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In The IT department typically gives teachers a 30-minute training session on technology and a list of online videos if they want to learn more.

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More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

Between Seattle, Naples, and the Bahamas, there are advocacy villages everywhere, filled with educators like Hannah Irion-Frake, a third-grade teacher in Pennsylvania who spends her career advocating for and creating readers. “I I provide training for teachers in my district in science-based literacy practices,” Irion-Frake said.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

Edsurge

Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia. You come down to a point where you just need a warm body to make sure children are safe. Nancy Sylvester Its so sad, Sylvester says. Your mental health is taking a toll.

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8 Top Tips and Tons of Resources for Supporting English Learners with Technology

Teacher Reboot Camp

Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! 9 Advocacy Groups & Events Enhancing ELT. If you enjoy these tips, then check out my Fully Accredited online course (In-Service and Graduate course options), Methodologies and Best Practices for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. A World Cup of Knowledge!

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As states adopt science of reading, one group calls for better teacher training, curriculum

eSchool News

Indiana is requiring new teacher training. Last year, NCTQ’s review of hundreds of teacher preparation programs found that thousands of educators graduate every year unprepared to teach children how to read, or trained using debunked literacy instruction strategies. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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New Approaches to Instructional Technology Coaching

Digital Promise

Coaches have taken on larger advocacy roles and are serving as liaisons between teachers and administration to communicate ongoing distance learning challenges and needs, as well as offer feedback and suggestions on district-approved applications, software, and systems.