Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.
With the emergence of online courses and blended learning environments, students and classroom teachers need access to the Internet. Unfortunately, because of the current fiscal crisis, it is unlikely the California legislature will allocate funds that will enable all students to have access to the Internet at school. If you need computer equipment and are
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Building good relationships with local community colleges to align career pathways and to articulate career courses is essential to student success. After nearly a year of studying ways to improve graduation and transfer rates, with dwindling resources, the 21-member Student Success Task Force on community colleges issued a report entitled Refocusing California Community Colleges Toward
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I wanted to share this “real world” example of how technologies are central to our society. Perhaps you can use this information in one of your classroom lessons to emphasize the relevance of the subjects you are teaching. Congratulations to the California Technology Agency’s Public Safety Communications Office on their outstanding service to Californians and
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Online and blended learning offer incredible new opportunities for teachers and students. It will take time and resources to fully develop and transform how learning takes place at the classroom level, and an “openness” to embrace the paradigm shift from traditional, to blended, to online teaching and learning. But change is coming because the benefits
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