Girls Thinking Global (GTG), dedicated to connecting nonprofits that serve adolescent girls and young women around the world and Women’s Education Project (WEP), dedicated to leadership, and college and career training of young women in India and South Asia, are forming a strategic alliance focused to develop leadership skills in adolescent girls and young women to help lift them out of poverty and positively impact their communities.
In this edWebinar, Dr. Almitra Berry-Jones, author of the book Effecting Change: Intervention for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners discusses the challenges of Achieving College and Career Readiness for students of cultural diversity, linguistic diversity and poverty.
Parents today want more information from their children’s teachers and schools, but they also want that information to be timely, targeted, and personalized to their children or their interest areas. The latest data from Speak Up Research Project gives insights on school to home communications. In “Text, Twitter, Email, Call—What Do Parents Say About School Communications?” Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow, shared these insights from parents, educators, and administrators, and discussed takeaways from the research.
In this webinar, Dr. Smalley will discuss careers and women in leadership, especially in STEM fields, with some discussion of ESSA funding driving STEM.
“Why do I have to learn this?” “When am I ever going to use this?” What motivates a millennial to learn? It is no longer sufficient for the responses to be, “because it is in the curriculum document” or “because you need it to get a good job.” Solving real problems for real people gives purpose for learning while in school and beyond.
edWeb.net and Ventris Learning launch Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching. This new professional learning community will be a forum for helping today’s teachers meet the unique instructional needs of underserved students. Ventris Learning’s new community on edWeb.net, Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching offers educators a place to post questions, share practical tips, and get feedback from experts and peers on the issues and challenges in working with young, diverse learners.
Bringing together the various strands of differentiation, RTI, and other protocols, this session will help teachers and administrators create effective learning experiences for students. Join Shanna for this live, interactive event to learn how to bring out the best in all of your students.
In this report, SETDA builds upon the research and recommendations from prior publications with a focus on the role of state leadership in supporting districts and schools to increase high-speed connectivity and access for students and educators.
In this webinar for the Game-Based Learning community, third grade teacher Jim Pike demonstrated Mathcraft, a Common Core Math curriculum centered around the popular video game Minecraft that he developed and has been using with his students over the past year.
Engaging activities and children’s literature examples focused on comprehension and meaning-making through the use of integrated reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and visually representing.