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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

ED Surge

EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Who Is Edtech Made for? And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

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SEL Can Thrive in Schools, But We Need Time to Discuss What Matters Most

ED Surge

Using their self-advocacy skills, they were able to speak up and challenge me, centering experiences that matter the most to them and their families. The True Power of SEL As I left that conversation, I felt many emotions. Mainly, I was proud of them for being capable of a conversation that was so dynamic and important.

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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

ED Surge

Most experts agree that older adults as a population tend to be isolated and lonely problems associated with an increased risk of dementia, heart disease and stroke, according to Jina Ragland, associate state director of advocacy and outreach at AARP Nebraska. As they age, their social networks contract.

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Idaho Moves to Deregulate Child Care in First-of-Its-Kind Legislation

ED Surge

No other state or developed nation that licenses child care has attempted anything like this before, noted Christine Tiddens, executive director of Idaho Voices for Children, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization, during an Idaho House committee hearing about the bill on Feb.

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

ED Surge

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.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

The district also should have devoted more resources for teacher support, such as coaching, he adds. Conversely, critics see San Franciscos failed experiment as a reflection of a flawed approach.

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Students already know much of what we’re supposedly ‘teaching’

Dangerously Irrelevant

The ups and downs of educational technology advocacy. We could solve this by pre-testing, yet not enough of us do… Hat tip: Carl Hendrick. Related Posts. Where new learning models will thrive. Engagement is not a goal, it’s an outcome of students doing meaningful work. No one is listening to the students.