Our friend Jin-Soo Huh of KIPP Chicago wrote an insightful piece for EdSurge about his return to the classroom. You should read it. He is the Director of Technology, but he put his teaching hat back on for a middle school math class.
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Responding to Jin-Soo Huh's Return to Teaching
Ben Stern
Our friend Jin-Soo Huh of KIPP Chicago wrote an insightful piece for EdSurge about his return to the classroom. You should read it. He is the Director of Technology, but he put his teaching hat back on for a middle school math class.
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On Joining the #cem14 Connected Educator Community
Ben Stern
In the spirit of Connected Educator Month, we invite our colleagues in edtech to share how they’ve given back, whether personally or as a company, to the community of connected educators. Just use hashtag #cem14 and mention us so we can catalog it for a future blog post!
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Responding to "5 Reasons Why Great Edtech Products Don't Succeed"
Ben Stern
Colette Coleman had a great piece in EdSurge recently: "5 Reasons Why Great Edtech Products Don’t Succeed." Her argument boils down to edtech companies not fully grasping the realities of life in our schools: overworked teachers, in underfunded classrooms, assaulted by a panoply of demands on their time and attention, are introduced to a dozen new products every day that don’t always align with their instructional style. Products fail because they make life worse, not better.
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Software Will Not 'Eat' Education
Jill Lubow
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Reflecting on the EdSurge Summit in Los Angeles
Jill Lubow
This past Friday and Saturday, EdSurge hosted a Tech for Schools Summit in Los Angeles. We've attended EdSurge Summits in the past, and came in with an idea of what to expect, but the combination of the energized attendees and the now-seasoned Summit organizers made this event their best one yet.
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Responding to Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters's "Consumer, creator…what’s next?"
Ben Stern
Teachers Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters asked the education community an interesting question in their recent Smart Blogs post, “Consumer, creator… what’s next?” Unpacking the titular question, they explained,
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Back-to-School Instructional Leadership Tips
Ben Stern
For the first time since I was four years old, I don’t have first-day-of-school jitters. From preschool through last year, I was in school, first as a student and then as a teacher. Now, with summer break a distant memory, I support schools worldwide with their teacher effectiveness and growth programs, and watch bittersweetly as they excitedly prepare to welcome this year’s students.
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We Are SETDA's Newest Emerging Private Sector Partner!
Jill Lubow
We're thrilled to announce that we've been selected to join the second cohort of the State Educational Technology Directors Association's Emerging Private Sector Partners!
From SETDA:
The ten companies making up this cohort were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants based on their status as an emerging company, capacity to leverage technology to serve a need in PreK-12 or pre-service education, and their potential to scale on a state-wide and multi-state basis.
“State education leaders will receive the benefit of exposure to and insight into these exciting digital learning innovations,” stated Douglas Levin, SETDA Executive Director. “At the same time, these companies will benefit from the knowledge of emerging policy and exemplary practices in the states, as well as from the experience and wisdom of those who have supported school technology implementation for years.”
Read the full press release here.
SETDA bolsters the capacity of state and national leaders to improve education through technology policy and practice. To learn more, visit setda.org.
We can't wait to make our debut at the Emerging Technologies Forum on June 26 in Atlanta, GA!
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Five Tips for Making the Leap from Teaching to Edtech
Jill Lubow
TeachBoost's newest recruit, Ben Stern, is a former teacher and technology integrator, and we couldn't be more excited to bring him on board—who better than an educator can help us understand what schools really need? In a recent EdSurge article, "Five Tips for Making the Leap from Teaching to Edtech," Ben shares lessons learned during his transition from the classroom to the edtech space: