EdWeek Market Brief Summit Key Takeaways

by Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer Westchester Education Services sponsored the EdWeek Market Brief Summit last week, which featured sessions about topics that are top of mind for education content providers. We also participated in two sessions, one a conversation with publisher Maurice Bakley about trends we are tracking in the industry,…

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Introducing Carol Wilson

Westchester Education Services is very pleased to welcome Carol Wilson as the Director of Client Solutions. Carol has been a pioneer in educational technology for more than 22 years. She has worked closely with classroom teachers, principals and district administrators, motivated to achieve best practices with technology infusion into teaching and learning with high energy.…

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Social-Emotional Learning: Making it Work

by Meg Overman, Senior Editor A recent nationwide focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom hit a roadblock with pandemic-related shutdowns—because many students aren’t in the classroom. On the surface, SEL seems almost to rely on in-person learning. Parsing emotions requires nuanced observation, which can be difficult to achieve in the virtual world. But, as…

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Ethical and Business Cases for DEI in Ed Pub and Ed Tech

by Nilofer Ali, Resources Manager I recently took a four-week class with Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik of Rutgers University titled, “Race and Islam in America,” in which she started off explaining epistemology: how we know what we know. I alluded to this in my last piece, and I’d like to springboard off that concept to discuss…

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#DaytonShines

Dayton, OH evening skyline

By Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer One year ago tomorrow, a gunman killed nine innocent people in Dayton’s Oregon District. These actions hit home—our Dayton office overlooks the street where the tragedy played out. Between the shock of the violence itself and the chaos as the national media and politicians camped out…

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