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Asynchronous Learning: The Key to Equity

EdNews Daily

By Kevin McFarland In this time of the Coronavirus pandemic and an all too sudden shift to virtual learning, equity of access has become perhaps the single largest obstacle to educating our children. Part of this problem can only be corrected with funding to bridge Internet and device access to communities in need.

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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

It enabled students with autism to ask and answer questions in the chat, if it was more comfortable, and to work with students in smaller groups in breakout rooms. Read blogs on other roundtables hosted by Digital Promise, SETDA, and CoSN: SETDA: Equity of Access. Roundtable Participants.

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5 edtech opportunities that will emerge in 2022

eSchool News

The problems we’ve experienced educating students who are learning at home, either full time or in a part time model, spotlight needed improvements (particularly with equity of access) and spark new ways of thinking. . This lapse was even more glaring among historically excluded groups. Additionally, roughly 30 percent of U.S.

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Building a Shared Vision Part 3: How Will We Get There?

More Verbs

In short, given a clear view of what this stakeholder group wants the future to hold for their students, it is now time to use that vision to help design the kind of schools, school community, and classroom practices that can be reasonably expected to deliver those desired outcomes. Group – more collaboration and integration.

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4 ways to support work-based learning

eSchool News

Conduct targeted data collection: Targeted data collection, at a local or statewide level, provides context about whom programs are serving and insight into equity of access for underserved groups.

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Addressing the root causes of chronic K-12 absenteeism

eSchool News

Disaggregate data to determine if specific demographic groups are experiencing higher levels of chronic absenteeism (for example, by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, or free- or reduced-price lunch status.) Begin tracking chronic absence data early, no later than kindergarten.

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Hotspots, YouTube, WiFi, Oh My! How Renton Prioritizes Infrastructure Over Devices

Edsurge

To build a stronger infrastructure and get to better internet access, the district needed a strong team of decision-makers, so the story of Renton really starts with its people. Ultimately Renton decided that the benefits outweighed the risks, and that this change would bring the district one step closer to its commitment to equity of access.

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