This series opened with a conversation with my friend and colleague, Eric Nentrup, who is an educational consultant with his hand on the pulse of AI (artificial intelligence) in education at the national level since he has and is continuing to help publish reports on AI for the Office of Educational Technology in the U.S. Department of Education. I then focused my attention on school districts by chatting with another friend and colleague, Maria Stavropoulus, who has leveraged her statewide connections and is championing AI at the district level. She’s even teaching a college class on using AI in education. I thought it would be nice to round out this series with a discussion with someone working directly with teachers and students in a school, and I knew exactly who that should be.
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Diverse Classroom Libraries: Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors to Lifelong Literacy Learning
The Region 8 Comprehensive Center and the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) created this resource to shine a light on Michigan's strategic education plan. It also focuses on the how and why of development of technical literacy skills and diversity in literature.
In this Region 8 Comprehensive Center webinar, Joe Timbrook, the Director of Career Development for the Lawrence County Economic Growth Council/Workforce Coalition, presents on how Lawrence County Economic Growth Council/Workforce Coalition has been successful in achieving state records of high…
The fourth and final session in our four-part webinar series, Getting Ready for Summer, was held on May 9, 2023, and discusses promising practices for learning acceleration. Participants review strategies for accelerating student learning during the summer and outline an approach for developing a…
: The third session in our four-part webinar series, Getting Ready for Summer, was held on May 2, 2023, and focuses on strategies for creating a warm and welcoming summer learning environment. Participants explore the building blocks for a positive climate and culture, including communicating a…
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I’ve been collaborating with my friend and colleague Maria Stavropoulus for a few years on a project for the North Carolina Business Committee for Education (NCBCE), located in the state’s governor’s office. We’ve helped the NCBCE establish a network of student technology teams across the state and have provided guidance, coaching, and some curriculum development.
It seems like I can’t go a day without hearing about AI—artificial intelligence. It shows up daily in my education blogs and e-zines; in the general news; my friends and colleagues bring it up; and it’s in books, movies, and TV shows.
Region 8 Comprehensive Center (R8CC) has collaborated with leadership in the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s (ODEW) Office of Learning and Instructional Strategies (OLIS) for the past four years and has embraced a learning journey that shifted from high-quality instructional materials guidance to educational coherence to aligning to curriculum-based professional learning.
There is a clear and compelling case that high-quality prekindergarten programs support children’s learning and development. Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program is a long-standing publicly-funded prekindergarten program.
Classroom wisdom and recent research tells us that summer plays a special role in youth development.