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PARCC Launches Twitter Town Hall Series
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career — Saturday, June 01, 2013
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) today announced a series of Twitter town halls to answer questions on the new, computer-based assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The PARCC series of Twitter town halls will start on June 5 with Rhode Island Education Commissioner and prolific tweeter Deborah A. Gist (@deborahgist). Read More »
Innovation Grants Honor Facing History Educators Around the World
Facing History and Ourselves — Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The international educational nonprofit organization Facing History and Ourselves has announced the recipients of the 2013 Margot Stern Strom Innovation Grants. In 2013, Facing History has awarded $40,000 to 20 educators around the globe. Read More »
FundingFactory Announces Second Annual 'Recycling Rumble' Winners
FundingFactory — Wednesday, May 29, 2013
More than 1,146 total participants nationwide vied for the Top Recycler title during the "Recycling Rumble," a friendly one-on-one recycling competition hosted annually by FundingFactory ®. From February 13 to April 30, FundingFactory participants competed to recycle the largest quantity of electronic waste (e-waste). Read More »
FrontRow Announces Winners of Lesson Capture Contest
FrontRow — Saturday, May 25, 2013
Classroom audio and integrated solutions provider FrontRow is excited to announce the eight winners of their How do you Juno? contest launched earlier this year. In this contest educators were able to try Juno®, create a lesson capture video, and enter it to win prizes for their classroom. Read More »
AEP To Host Two LRMI Sessions During ISTE
Association of Educational Publishers — Thursday, May 23, 2013
The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) will host a concurrent session, The New Age of (Web) Discovery: New Resource Metadata Standards, and a Birds-of-a-Feather Roundtable, LRMI: The Dewey Decimal System for the Digital Age, during the 2013 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio, Texas. Both sessions will focus on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI).... Read More »
Schools Gear Up for 12th Annual National Mix It Up at Lunch Day
Southern Poverty Law Center — Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Registration is now open for the 12th annual National Mix It Up at Lunch Day event, Teaching Tolerance announced today. More than 5,000 schools across the country are expected to take part in the event, set for Oct. 29. Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center,. launched Mix It Up at Lunch Day in 2002... Read More »
6th Annual Flipped Conference To Be Live Streamed
Flipped Learing — Monday, May 20, 2013
The 6th Annual Flipped Conference is scheduled for June 18-19 in Stillwater, Minn., and worldwide through the FlipCon13 Virtual Conference live stream. Virtual attendees can participate in keynote sessions with speakers Jon Bergmann, Aaron Sams and Ramsey Musallam; a panel of students, parents and educators; and 28 concurrent sessions. Read More »
ISTE 2013 Awards Honor Education Leaders
International Society for Technology in Education — Monday, May 20, 2013
Today the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) announced the outstanding education leaders that will be honored at the world’s premier educational technology event, ISTE 2013, in San Antonio, June 23-26. “The 2013 ISTE award honorees are living examples of the how educators are, right now, using thought leadership, advocacy and innovation to leverage technology to transform learning and teaching,” said Brian Lewis, ISTE CEO. Read More »
Sree Sreenivasan and Dave Slowik Announced as Speakers for InnovateEDU
PlattForm — Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Two nationally recognized voices in education and marketing have been confirmed to present at PlattForm's InnovateEDU higher education forum, held July 10-12 at Hotel Phillips in Kansas City. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University's Chief Digital Officer, and Dave Slowik, Account Executive on Google's Education team, will join fellow industry-expert speakers to provide attendees valuable information that will help their institutions grow and succeed. Read More »
Inaugural Summer Issue of Teaching Tolerance Magazine
Southern Poverty Law Center — Wednesday, May 15, 2013
When violence erupts in a community such as Newtown, Conn., or Oak Creek, Wis., schools can play an important role in helping children navigate our sometimes-violent world, according to the inaugural Summer issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine, released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Read More »
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