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Funding & Recognition
Contest to Raise Awareness of the Benefits of Audio Description
American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project (ACB-ADP) and Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) are cosponsoring an opportunity for young people, aged 7–21, who are blind and visually impaired: The Benefits of Audio Description in Education (BADIE) contest!
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Tools for Students to Combat Cybersecurity Threats
Australia, India, Japan, and the United States have launched the Quad Cyber Challenge to draw attention to ongoing cyber threats against governments and schools. The initiative's website links to resources for students created by federal agencies, including Kahoot quizzes on cybersecurity and similar topics.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
eBook: Gearing Up for Student Assessments
In a recent survey by Logitech and Education Week, 93% of teachers reported that their students take exams digitally. But less than half of their students are “very comfortable” with the technology. As districts across the country focus on preparing students for assessments, it’s critical to understand how equipping them with the right tools can help address challenges such as cognitive fatigue, physical discomfort, and background distractions.
By integrating technology tailored to the types of assessments being administered, students will feel more focused, confident, and successful. Learn how in Logitech’s eBook Gearing Up for Assessments.
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Funding & Recognition
Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Increasing Literacy
The Library of Congress Literacy Awards are intended to draw public attention to the importance of literacy and the need to promote literacy and encourage reading. Since 2013 the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program has provided more than $3 million in prizes to more than 150 institutions in 38 countries.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Online Course Providing an Overview of Social–Emotional Learning
Interest in social and emotional learning (SEL) has grown rapidly in the post-pandemic world, according to CASEL. To address this increased interest, CASEL has launched a free one-hour online learning course: An Introduction to Social and Emotional Learning.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
The Power of Literacy Builds Confident Students
Lexia knows that its science of reading-based solutions along with the countless hours teachers and administrators dedicate to their students will change the paths of students’ lives forever. That’s why Lexia is all for literacy.
For more than 35 years, Lexia has focused solely on literacy and today provides a full spectrum of solutions for both students and teachers. With robust offerings for differentiated instruction, personalized learning, assessment, and professional learning, Lexia helps more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.
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Mobile Learning
App That Illuminates the Stories of Women in History
Lessons in Herstory is an iPad app created by Daughters of the Evolution that puts a new lens on history. The app uses augmented reality to bring to life the forgotten heroes in US history textbooks—women!
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Celebration of the Differences That Engineers Make in the World
Founded by National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.
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Professional Growth
Well-Being and Leadership Summit for Women District Leaders
Power Trip 2023 continues Big Deal Media’s annual tradition of bringing women district administrators together for a well-being and leadership summit. Join an amazing group of only 50 district administrators on July 16–19, 2023, for A Personal and Professional Life-Changing Experience at Miraval Austin Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas. Discover tools, strategies, and personal renewal that you—as a top district decision maker—can use to become a more effective leader, communicator, driver of change, and collaborative designer of your district. Visit the Power Trip 2023 website to register for this one-of-a-kind experience.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
New Tools to Detect AI-Generated Writing
OpenAI, maker of the controversial ChatGPT, released a new tool designed to help teachers detect work that has been written by artificial intelligence tools—and potentially curb cheating. OpenAI emphasized the limitations of its detection tool but said that in addition to deterring plagiarism, it could help to detect automated disinformation campaigns and other misuse of AI to mimic humans.
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Professional Growth
Educator-Led Project That Promotes Media and Digital Literacy
Project Look Sharp is an outreach initiative through Ithaca College that helps K–12 educators teach literacy across the curriculum to empower students as media consumers and creators.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Perseverance Mars Rover “Landiversary”
NASA will be celebrating the “landiversary” of the Perseverance Mars rover on February 18, 2023, marking two years since the rover’s nail-biting descent on the Red Planet. The Mission to Mars Student Challenge is a great way to get students of all ages exploring STEM and the Red Planet right along with the Perseverance rover.
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Professional Growth
Inquiry-based Approach to Expand Teaching the US Founding
On February 21, 2023, Facing History and Ourselves will host a free online program exploring the complexities and contradictions in the history of the founding of the United States.
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Funding & Recognition
Hidden Funds Uncovered
GetEdFunding is a grant-finding resource sponsored by CDW•G that is dedicated to helping educators, schools, and other institutions identify the funding they need in budget-tight times.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Program Empowering Children with Life Skills
The Second Step Elementary digital program is a universal, Tier 1 social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum that is web-based, provides the structure to allow for consistent delivery, and easily scales across schools and districts.
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Funding & Recognition
Writing Competition Inspired by Hope for the Future
Registration is open for the 2023 John Estey Student Writing Competition, the American Writers Museum’s annual writing contest. This year’s prompt is a quotation from Pauli Murray: “Give me a song of hope and a world where I can sing it.”
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