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Leadership
How Can We Prevent High School Seniors from Dropping Out?
Although the numbers indicate that these students leave during senior year, studies show that dropping out of school is often the result of a long, cumulative process and is not a decision students make overnight. The National Dropout Prevention Center/Network notes there is no single risk factor to accurately predict who is at risk of dropping out, but when multiple risk factors are considered, the accuracy of dropout predictions increases.
Leadership
Twitter Turned Me Into an Elementary Teacher
Engaging in social media about education has become my learning habit. Last November I started the Pedagogy and Technology Used in Education chat (#PATUE) and I started this chat with the hopes of getting my fellow teachers involved. On a couple rare occasions I was lucky enough to host a teacher from my school, but more often I was chatting with teachers in Florida, Croatia, Iceland, or Brazil.
EdTech
EdTech Roundup: Connected Educators Month
With Connected Educator Month in full swing, resources, ideas, and conversations are happening all over the Web. Get involved in Connected Educator Month with these recent stories and activities.
Leadership
Alumni Engagement | Three Ways to Encourage Involvement
Three main factors contributed to this kind of success: offering different and convenient points of entry, providing a product they view as useful, and leveraging Alumni’s existing passions and values.
Leadership
Is School Segregation Still A Problem?
Today, the number one predictor of a student’s academic achievement is not her race but rather her family’s level of income. And achievement gaps between low-income and high-income students are now much wider than those between black and white students.
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Framing the Learning in the Blended Learning Environment
In a high quality competency based learning model, competencies are designed on conceptual understandings within and between a content areas. These ‘big ideas’ provide the deep, rich, conceptual connections across disciplines that invite strategic and extended thinking.
EdTech
5 Great Apps for Future Scientists
These are the apps that have stood the test of time with my fourth grader. Each one of them different, but helping to cultivate the love of science and inquiry with the iPad.
EdTech
Education in the 21st Century Infographic
Implementing a blended model requires educators to rethink their methods of delivery and how they can relate to students. We are just being this revolution but this infographic helps define where we are currently, as we continue to develop and implement best practices.
Personalized Learning
US2020 City Competition, Building STEM Mentorship
Born out of a White House call for large-scale, innovative solutions to America’s STEM challenge, US2020 connects science and tech professionals with underrepresented K-20 students across the country for experiential, sustained science learning.
Leadership
Alumni Engagement | How Can Instagram Support Your Mission?
By: Brian Rosenbaum Since I began using social media to engage my peers around causes that were important to me back in graduate school, I’ve seen its potential to mobilize people. But converting passive friends or followers into active participants is tricky, whether you’re…