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E-Policy Essentials for Schools, Write a Definitive Acceptable Use Policy
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Sponsor: Edgewave Posted: May 15, 2012 |
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The first hurdle in making your school or district's e-communications safe and CIPA compliant, is establishing a strong Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The e-Policy Essential Guide for Schools, includes the important information you as educators need to write a strong and comprehensive AUP or improve the one you have. This free guide includes templates that will help insure that your AUP covers all the areas you need to address and all the audiences that you must consider - students, teachers, staff, school board and parents.
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Math Intervention - From Best Practice to Next Practice
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Sponsor: Think Through Math Posted: April 15, 2012 |
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Adopting and implementing the next generation of math intervention requires a belief that something has fundamentally changed in the way students learn and teachers teach. It also requires recognition that underperforming students tend to be more motivated in a digital environment where effort is rewarded. Further, teachers must be part of the equation. Nothing is more powerful than an effective teacher equipped with all the essential tools for differentiating instruction. In this white paper, Think Through Math outlines its blended approach to implementing a next-generation, Web-based solution that transforms the way students feel about math and provides educators with unprecedented access to actionable data.
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Motivation & Personalization: Middle School Math
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Sponsor: Carnegie Learning Posted: April 1, 2012 |
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In the United States, middle school students often feel alienated in school and lose interest in academic achievement, just at the time that increasing abstraction in topics like mathematics required renewed energy and commitment to academic success. Recent research on academic motivation has shown that many students expect learning to be easy. As they struggle with more difficult subject matter, emphasizing the way that solving hard problems helps their brain grow can help to counter this alienation and lead to better academic achievement. In addition personalizing instructional content by focusing on the academic skills that each individual student needs to learn can lead to stronger success. This paper reviews the research on academic motivation and personalization of content and shows how this research has been incorporated into instruction.
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Unique Challenges Facing K-12 IT Professionals
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Sponsor: School Dude Posted: April 1, 2012 |
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Get your copy of the full Survey Report: The Unique Challenges Facing the IT Professional in K-12 Education
Here’s another tool to help you conquer the IT challenges you face each day. See how your organization compares to the rest of the US and use the quantitative data in this report to justify your needs. The survey, conducted by SchoolDude.com and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), asked hundreds of IT professionals to give honest answers about their technology departments, including staffing, asset management and funding.
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Can response systems improve learning outcomes?
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Sponsor: DYMO|Mimio Posted: April 1, 2012 |
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While student response systems can be a valuable tool for teachers, they are not often used in a way that will actually improve student outcomes. In this in-depth whitepaper, Dr. Karen Mahon, Learning Scientist and Educational Psychologist, provides a comprehensive view of student response systems, and important insight on how to effectively use this technology to help kids learn. Download the whitepaper, “Using Student Response Systems to Improve Student Outcomes.”
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10 Steps for Migrating Curriculum to Common Core
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Sponsor: Achieve 3000 Posted: April 1, 2012 |
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Based on insights from leading K-12 experts and curriculum developers, this new white paper identifies the key steps for successful migration to the Common Core. Steps include performing gap analyses to determine how your state standards differ from the new Common Core standards and creating a repository of lessons plans to fill curricular gaps for teachers. Download the paper now to find all ten steps – plus strategies for achieving them.
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Teaching Self-Regulation Skills to Close the Income-Based Achievement Gap
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Sponsor: Committee for Children Posted: April 1, 2012 |
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The equalizing effect of an American education is threatened by the growing impact of poverty evidenced in the rapidly widening income-based achievement gap. As recent research indicates, teaching self-regulation skills to students can help mitigate poverty's impact, giving all students a better chance at success in school and life.
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Using Collaboration to Impact Teaching & Learning
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Sponsor: Blackboard Posted: April 1, 2012 |
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School systems today are increasingly incorporating elements of online learning into their educational mix. To power the real-time interactions that are becoming so vital to the K-12 learning community, a wide array of technology options are available. In this paper, after touching on the growing demand for online learning, Blackboard lays out the elements that educators should take into consideration when assessing potential solutions.
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The Educational Promise of Social Media
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Sponsor: Herff Jones Posted: March 1, 2012 |
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This whitepaper explores ideas surrounding the use of social media in education, including classroom applications and communication between teachers and students. Included are examples of how some educators are using social media to spark learning in addition to those proposing restriction on contact.
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Broad Knowledge Drives Literacy
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Sponsor: Herff Jones Posted: March 1, 2012 |
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This whitepaper explores insights and examples on the role key academic background knowledge plays in the ongoing development of students' reading and writing skills. It includes research on the impact that No Child Left Behind and Common Core State Standards have had, and details how students without adequate access to content knowledge in the classroom are affected.
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Data Systems That Help Schools Make a Difference
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Sponsor: SAS Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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Learn how Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina advanced from storing district data in two-inch binders to running 21st century data systems that provide a holistic view of their district. Examine the intermediate steps the district took to improve information access and sharing. Then, take a detailed look at the various activities the data team undertook while implementing its new full-scale solutions, including cleansing and validating data and creating repeatable data integration routines.
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Great Books Programs Fit the CCSS
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Sponsor: Great Books Foundation Posted: Sept. 1, 2011 |
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The Great Books Foundation provides classroom programs that strongly align with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This white paper shows exactly how. Great Books K-12 programs improve students' achievement in reading comprehension, critical thinking, writing, and speaking and listening.
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