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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. So yeah, I'm an educator and businesswoman.

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When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers?

ED Surge

Suddenly, she says, no one seemed to care what she thought about the tech tools the school adopted. It was especially frustrating, considering she had spent five years helping teachers weave edtech into their lesson plans and had earned a doctorate in education technology before returning to teaching.

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What My Girls Camp Reveals About the Promise of Women in STEM and the Dangers of Online Hate

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Reaching students across public and private school systems and alternative educational settings, the CompuGirls program is keenly focused on helping students develop the skills needed to become the next generation of technology innovators and community leaders from various ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. Even some of personalized learning’s biggest backers admit that it’s easy to get it wrong.

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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

ED Surge

For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools. Soon, the company built up enough infrastructure around its substitute teaching effort, that it began coordinating with school districts.

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