Catholic Colleges - Recruitment. K-12 Education. For 2014 Principals Academy Participants // Alliance for Catholic Education. College Admissions Process. Concussion. Catholic Higher Ed. On Children and Social Media. Two weeks ago, I had never heard of Ask.fm.
Two weeks ago, I was content to believe that my son was completely innocent and only interested in sports and his buddies. After a phone call from another parent about a text that was sent from my son’s phone, my happy parent bubble burst. Many hours and days later, I have a whole new awareness of social media and of my son’s involvement in certain sites. While still in the benign stages, his involvement in posts and messages was heading down a dangerous path. Consequences ensued; from his perspective harsh, from my perspective not enough to satisfy me 100 percent that I could keep him safe. The lasting effect of our “wake-up call” is that I check his phone daily. At schools across the world, issues of “cyber-bullying” have come to our attention. If your family is anything like mine, finding time to be together is nearly impossible.
As adults, we all need to take an intentionally active role in our children’s social media lives. Big Data in Independent Schools: Assessing What We Value? - Independent Schools, Common Perspectives. HSSSE: CEEP: Indiana University Bloomington. The High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE, pronounced "hessee") is a comprehensive survey on student engagement and school climate issues.
Previously, HSSSE was administered by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) at Indiana University as a fee-for-service to schools, districts and other groups who wanted to examine high school student engagement. Since 2003, HSSSE has been used to measure the engagement of secondary students, with more than 400,000 students in over 40 states completing the survey between 2006 and 2013. Starting in Fall 2013, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) no longer administers HSSSE as a fee-for-service. Going forward, the use of HSSSE survey items by schools, districts, and researchers is permitted without charge. HSSSE and the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) must be cited/referenced in documentation and publications. How Schools Can Think Like Startups. How Schools Can Think Like Startups by Terry Heick This is the age of the startup.
The age where a teenager can change the world from his basement, and almost daily new apps and platforms are launched with the modest goal of, well, changing the world. In this age, Pete Cashmore and Mark Zuckerberg have more social capital than Ford or General Mills. This marks quite the shift from the themes of the 1990s, where profit was king, industry was ruggedly industrial (as opposed to digital), and the phrase “nothing personal–strictly business” found a lot of use. But there is more going on than is immediately visible. Unlike other businesses, public education can’t “fail.” (One stinging irony being that of reduced social capacity: the more mediocre the education is each generation, the less likely such mediocrity will be spotted en masse, as it is obscured by a cultural blind spot, where “ed reformers” simply bang their heads together while the public itself waits for change.)
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