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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'

ED Surge

Our most recent cohort of fellows included educators across a variety of grades and content areas, including a high school principal, an elementary school paraprofessional, a math and computer science teacher, and a school and community engagement manager, to name a few.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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Sensible Learning

A Principal's Reflections

School administrators can use blogs as a powerful public relations tool in lieu of traditional newsletters and email blasts. The ability to comment on any blog increases both student and community engagement. In our digital journalism class students are required to have their own Twitter accounts. What about you?

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Identifying the Top Four Challenges in K-12 Education

Digital Promise

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We also combined non-cognitive skills with social-emotional development due to their shared focus on developing students’ personal and social skills. It takes time, strategy, and rethinking professional development.”

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Building Strong Relationships During the Edtech Purchasing Process

Digital Promise

This includes student demographics, programs, curricula, academic performance, and community engagement.”. Hertz points out that while schools are customers, they’re not traditional customers. Ben Grimley, CEO and co-founder of Speak Agent, says that before his sales team approaches a district, “We do our homework.

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District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

The Hechinger Report

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. The district also created a family and community engagement coordinator position. Picard’s older children went through the traditional education system and she can see a difference. “I

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.