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Welcome to Eduspire Insights, our new bi-weekly online publication to keep you informed! Insights features news and announcements, events, interesting new course offerings, updates from our software division (Eduspire Solutions), links to our blog posts, instructor highlights, and more!
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Summer Courses Have Begun!
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This Week's News
Keep reading to learn what's new with Eduspire
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Eduspire Solutions Continues to Impress with its Streamlined Software for Schools
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Getting Smart, well-known source of content on ed-tech, learning, and leadership, included Eduspire Solutions' FlexTime Manager application in its list of tools available to help teachers with PBL assessment. The post, titled "14 Tech Tools to Enhance Project-Based Learning," declares FlexTime's ability to "manage activity periods and keep track of projects."
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EDKU 9099
Online
July 11 — August 11
Please register by July 7
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Inquiry-learning is an effective, engaging, and relevant way to tackle the required rigor and depth of the new PA Common Core standards. It is a term often bantered about in educational circles, touted as one of the most authentic pedagogical methods. How can you approach inquiry learning with students if you are a practicing teacher who has never had the opportunity to experience inquiry-based learning yourself? In this course directed at teachers of all subjects in grades K-12, you will become part of a community of inquiry, exploring and co-creating knowledge about the subject, trying out the methods, and then building lesson plans to implement inquiry-learning with your students.
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From the instructor: Mara Linaberger shares her first-hand experiences with inquiry learning and how they've shaped her teaching and her students. See below.
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Eduspire is proud to announce that its Summer Literacy Institute graduate-level professional development course is returning to Linden Hall in Lititz, PA this August 1-4!
Eduspire's 2016 Summer Literacy Institute provides a fantastic opportunity to explore the latest research, collaborate with experienced educators, and create a research-based action plan for the 2016-2017 school year, focused on the topic of assessment. This 4-day institute, which can be attended for graduate credits or Act 48 hours, is packed with excellent keynote speakers and breakout presenters
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To view the course brochure, click here. For a course outline, testimonials from last year's institute, speaker names, or to register, click here. But hurry, registration closes June 29th!
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Get to know us better: Eduspire's top-notch instructors combine experience, skill, insight, and a passion for education. This week's interview features Ben Smith, physics teacher at Red Lion Area High School (Red Lion, PA) and instructor of Eduspire's course Google Apps for the Science Classroom (EDKU 9100), which is being offered online July 1st! Click here to read his instructor spotlight profile and learn his favorite ed-tech app and ice cream flavor!
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Eduspire Instructor, Ben Smith
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Suggest Blog Topics to Help Us Keep the Eduspire Blog Relevant and Engaging!
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We want our blog to be a place you visit for interesting, relevant, current, and informative content. In order to help us better cater to our readers and audience of education professionals, we invite you to submit ideas for blog topics that you'd like to see the Eduspire team write about.
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Feel free to submit more than one idea with your response. Topics can range from the latest ed-tech news and developments, to new apps you've begun to use in your classroom, to common experiences faced by educators that you'd like to see your peers weigh in on. We just may write about your suggested topic and highlight it in an upcoming newsletter, so keep an eye on your inbox — and our blog!
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Whether you'd like to bring a course to your district, learn about becoming an instructor, make a suggestion, or just let us know how we're doing, we'd love to hear from you!
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Eduspire is pleased to offer flexible graduate-level professional development options for educators all across Pennsylvania. Visit our website to
search for face-to-face courses by zip code
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online offerings
to learn from home. With over 50 courses to choose from, there's bound to be something for you! Scholarship opportunities may be available.
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