3 Ways to Take Parent Engagement to Meaningful Parent Partnership

June 13, 2018

For over a decade, under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), educators focused on parent involvement in schools. NCLB emphasized “building parents’ capacity for using effective practices to improve their own children’s academic achievement” and “shared accountability between schools and parents for high student achievement.” This included involving parents in school activities and providing materials and training to support parents in contributing to their child’s academic achievement.

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Ideaphora Inc.

Ideaphora offers first-of-their-kind, cloud-based learning tools that deconstruct content into its most meaningful concepts, allowing learners to reconstruct information into lasting, personalized knowledge, based on their preferences, learning styles and goals.Ideaphora increases the value of digital content by allowing learners to easily and quickly connect and assimilate concepts presented online, fostering the development of higher order thinking skills and accelerating the learning process. Learners discover concepts, evaluate their thinking, and apply their knowledge in the digital environment so they can thrive in the globally connected world in which they live.

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NAVIGATING CX CHALLENGES IN THE DYNAMIC WORLD OF ELEARNING

whitePaper | April 8, 2023

This whitepaper explores how eLearning providers (Learning Management Systems, Training Management Systems, Learning Experience Platforms, and content providers etc.) can convert these challenges into opportunities by prioritizing the customer experience (CX) to increase customer satisfaction and profitability.

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How to Successfully Implement a Learning Management System

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

One of the biggest drivers of member acquisition is continuing education. For example, a 2020 Member Engagement Study revealed that members ranked professional associations as their #1 most trusted source for professional education and training.

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What Matters and What Works in Literacy Instruction

whitePaper | September 15, 2022

To transform students into skilled readers, schools must understand the science of reading and align their literacy instruction to it. The science of reading is a cumulation of research in the fields of education, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. This paves the way for what students need to learn a

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Empowering World Language Instructors in the Shift to Blended Learning

whitePaper | July 30, 2020

In October 2013, Getting Smart partnered with Rosetta Stone to release a report called “The Next Generation of World Language Learning.” The goal of the report was to create a vision for world language learning that acknowledged its role in global competency and to frame the vision inside broader shifts to personalized learning and blended instruction. Pointing to the potential of educational technology, we advocated for accessible, high-quality world language instruction for all students—from elementary through high school.

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The Substitute Teacher Gap: Recruitment and Retention Challenges in the Age of Covid-19

whitePaper | July 29, 2020

An increase in teacher absences and the need to fill more positions than ever before have created a new set of challenges in the world of substitute teacher recruitment and retention. In December of 2019 and January of 2020, the EdWeek Research Center explored these challenges with a nationally representative, online survey of more than 2,000 principals, district leaders, and school board members. Survey results suggest that the challenge is big and getting bigger: Districts are currently able to fill just 54 percent of the approximately 250,000 teacher absences each day, the survey found.

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Implementing school system reform in 2022/23

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

The Schools White Paper – Opportunity for all: Strong schools with great teachers for your child – sets out our long term vision for a school system that helps every child to fulfil their potential, founded on achieving world class literacy and numeracy. Our targets are that, by 2030, 90% of primary school children are meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; and that the average GCSE grades in both English language and maths are raised to 5.

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Ideaphora Inc.

Ideaphora offers first-of-their-kind, cloud-based learning tools that deconstruct content into its most meaningful concepts, allowing learners to reconstruct information into lasting, personalized knowledge, based on their preferences, learning styles and goals.Ideaphora increases the value of digital content by allowing learners to easily and quickly connect and assimilate concepts presented online, fostering the development of higher order thinking skills and accelerating the learning process. Learners discover concepts, evaluate their thinking, and apply their knowledge in the digital environment so they can thrive in the globally connected world in which they live.

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