Information on infusing leadership and life skills in K-12 education.
There is a lot of interest in using online resources to augment classroom instruction, a popular term for online instruction now being used is “Blended Learning” where some instruction is from “on-line” and some provided by the classroom teacher. I recently attended a briefing by Dr. Sandy Miller who provided background on the latest technology
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Special thanks to Clint Johns, Information Technology Academy Coordinator at Irvington High School, for passing on this professional development opportunity: The Computer Science Department at Stanford University, with generous support from Google, is holding a Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) workshop on July 28 and 29 in the Gates Computer Science building on the
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I’m writing today to inform you of a free on-line textbook website and to recommend teachers review a book available on the site entitled: “Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology” While this book is intended for use in undergraduate and/or graduate courses in Management Information Systems and Information Technology, the information in the
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Good news from Sacramento! Proposed changes to promote a greater variety of school performance measures, including whether students are career-ready, is finding support in the legislature. California’s Academic Performance Index (API) was never supposed to be based on a single test. When it was created as part of the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999,
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