Category: Education and Empowerment

Collin Shepley, Ph.D., principal investigator on the project, said few resources exist to help teachers develop best practices for progress monitoring, despite it being an essential tool for serving students with an individualized education plan (IEP) or at risk for disability or delay.  When creating an IEP, educators identify meaningful learning objectives for each student, then create a plan for collecting and analyzing data to track progress toward achieving the objectives. Progress monitoring data helps teachers identify when instruction is effective and make decisions about how to individualize instruction for…

UNICEF is supporting the Government of Oman to strengthen ECD and ECE  services to ensure that children arrive at school healthy, stimulated, and ready to learn. Supporting Oman in Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals UNICEF’s IECD work supports Oman in reaching SDG 2.2 Ending All Forms of Malnutrition,  SDG 3.2 Ending  Preventable Deaths of Newborns and Under Fives and SDG4 Quality Education and Life-long Learning Opportunities. Early Childhood Education (ECE) UNICEF Oman is collaborating with the Ministry of Education to create a costing model for the implementation of mandatory universal access…

Zenovia Harris The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recently announced that Zenovia Harris, Chief Executive Officer of the Kent Chamber of Commerce, has been selected to participate in the tenth cohort of its premier business leadership program. The Business Leads Fellowship Program aims to train and equip leaders from state and local chambers of commerce, economic development agencies, and trade associations with resources, access to experts, and a network of peers to build their capacity to address pressing education and workforce challenges. “I am deeply honored and excited to be…