CONTINUING EDUCATION

Implementing school system reform in 2022/23

June 2, 2022

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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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Skubes.com

Skubes is designed to become the Internet's top provider for educational videos and interactive books for children in kindergarten through the 12th grade. Skubes is taking all the lessons taught from kindergarten through the twelfth grade and putting them on video, where they are taught by an actual teacher and broken into short three to ten-minute segments. The videos, available in English, will cover math, science and language arts. The videos are accessible through the Internet and can be watched via a computer, tablet, smartphone or Apple TV. Skubes currently has thousands of videos and quizzes, which are available to individuals or through schools or schools systems. Our resources are available to the students at home and while in school. Our reach is growing every week as we are now being used in schools in Texas, Chicago, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Mississippi. Our resources are primarily used for tutoring, remediation, lesson review, blended learning, lesson previewi

OTHER WHITEPAPERS
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Curiosity Works

whitePaper | August 31, 2022

Student curiosity is a powerful driver of both student success and engagement. It also predicts better relationships, life fulfillment, and job performance (Kashdan & Roberts, 2004; Kashdan & Steger, 2007; Reio & Wiswell, 2000). So, what would it take for us to create learning environments that unleash student curiosity?

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Take Action! Make Meaningful Change in Your Ed Data Ecosystems

whitePaper | November 5, 2022

School district leaders are all too familiar with the challenges presented by education data management. Project Unicorn and the State of the Sector Report 2022 can help you make meaningful change by prioritizing data interoperability.

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The Impact of Technology on Learning and Teaching

whitePaper | March 31, 2020

Several studies have highlighted the potential benefits of technology use in education, with some even suggesting a few technologies in particular that have the ability to enhance a student’s overall knowledge and skills.2 The traditional teaching model, based on active instruction by a teacher and passive reception of knowledge from a student, does not necessarily still allow students to develop many 21st century skills needed to be successful in an increasingly tech-based economy.

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KEEP STUDENTS ON TRACK WITH DATABASE ACCESS

whitePaper | August 9, 2020

More than ever, school and district leaders are increasing their focus on two goals related to student success: closing the academic achievement gap and making sure all K–12 students are equipped with the skills they need to be successful in college and in today’s competitive workforce. The metric for evaluating the most successful schools in the United States has shifted from an exclusive focus on graduation rates to assessing academic and global skill competencies. Students who master the new competencies and are prepared to face an uncertain future in the global information economy and society represent the new standard of success. They are what is known as “future ready.”

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LEARNING PRINCIPLES FOR WORKPLACE TRAINING

whitePaper | June 15, 2022

The way we learn is a process that evolved over millions of years. However, a lot of mechanisms of learning have remained a mystery to us -- until as recently as a few decades ago. Researchers around the world have striven to unlock these answers about human cognition as a way to know ourselves better but perhaps more importantly about how learners are shaped by the environment and their interactions with it.

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Degree of Difference: What Do Learning Outcomes Say About Higher Education?

whitePaper | June 18, 2022

At the time of this writing, The United States Census Bureau states the country’s population is 328.6 million people. An interesting bit of trivia, perhaps, but all the more intriguing when one realizes that 44 million of those people (~13.4 percent) collectively owe $1.5 trillion in student loan debt (Friedman, 2019).

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Spotlight

Skubes.com

Skubes is designed to become the Internet's top provider for educational videos and interactive books for children in kindergarten through the 12th grade. Skubes is taking all the lessons taught from kindergarten through the twelfth grade and putting them on video, where they are taught by an actual teacher and broken into short three to ten-minute segments. The videos, available in English, will cover math, science and language arts. The videos are accessible through the Internet and can be watched via a computer, tablet, smartphone or Apple TV. Skubes currently has thousands of videos and quizzes, which are available to individuals or through schools or schools systems. Our resources are available to the students at home and while in school. Our reach is growing every week as we are now being used in schools in Texas, Chicago, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Mississippi. Our resources are primarily used for tutoring, remediation, lesson review, blended learning, lesson previewi

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