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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In 2016, I moved to the U.S., hoping to one day become an educator. This entails providing mentorship programs, professional development opportunities and training school leaders to empower immigrant educators and facilitate their integration into the educational landscape.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. January’s update was published alongside guidance concerning the use of technology for helping students with disabilities. There is no shortage of individual teachers doing a wonderful job using technology, Krueger adds.

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Partnering Literacy and Technology to Improve One School

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Thanks to the generous support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Digital Promise and RCSD’s McKinley Institute of Technology (MIT) have been working on a one-to-one Literacy Initiative to support powerful use of technology for learning and address the second level digital divide. About the Literacy Initiative.

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How can schools protect student data without training teachers in privacy basics?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Privacy and data-security themes are also woven into Raytown’s professional development workshops, curriculum planning sessions and even parent-teacher conferences. It’s become part of our school culture,” said Melissa Tebbenkamp, Raytown’s director of instructional technology.

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As a Paraprofessional, My Role Is Undervalued, Underpaid and Too Often, Forgotten

ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

When I was hired as a para in 2016, my salary was $27,000 and my bi-weekly paycheck was about $800. Forgotten During Professional Development The work I do as a paraprofessional requires preparation, ongoing support and continued professional development opportunities. During my first year, I was a floating para.

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Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? Deciding what’s best for the nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools.

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A 2016 study of nearly 500 teachers across the country found that less than half had taken a college class focused on teaching writing, while fewer than a third had received training on specifically teaching children how to write. So, how can schools help students overcome these challenges?

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Future-Ready District Delivers 21st Century Teacher PD using Video

Edthena

APRIL 6, 2016

The State Education Technology Director’s Association recently hosted their “What’s New and Noteworthy” webinar, and Edthena was one of the featured technologies. Diane Lauer, executive director of professional development and assessment at St. Diane’s presentation can be viewed below.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S. By comparison, in February 2016, Lawrence School District in Kansas got a discount of nearly 24 percent that dropped a $4.1

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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

While the presence of technology does not necessarily ensure learning equity and accessibility, the authors of the Department of Education’s 2016 National Education Technology Plan concluded that technology nevertheless “has the power to lower barriers to both in ways previously impossible.”.

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Scaling Innovation: A System’s Approach to Transforming Teaching & Learning

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. (You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.) Scaling Innovation.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. In 2020, only 10 percent of Kenyan teachers were using the more than one million laptops distributed through a Digital Literacy Program between 2016 and 2018.

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Access to equity in education is more critical than ever for the next administration

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Equity in education is more important than ever. Although the divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country has been widening for years, the 2016 presidential race and, in particular, the surprising victory by Donald Trump underscored the growing discontent caused by unequal access to the American Dream.

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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer

How can we close the digital divide?

Trending Sources

Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

Partnering Literacy and Technology to Improve One School

How can schools protect student data without training teachers in privacy basics?

As a Paraprofessional, My Role Is Undervalued, Underpaid and Too Often, Forgotten

Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets? Deciding what’s best for the nation’s schools

Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

Future-Ready District Delivers 21st Century Teacher PD using Video

“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

Scaling Innovation: A System’s Approach to Transforming Teaching & Learning

The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

Access to equity in education is more critical than ever for the next administration

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