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I want to introduce what will be our final on stage panel for today. gg is a online teacher runned school, and matt presser is here, one of the education nation.com essay winners, and i am going to read before we are done here, some of your work. so who leads you? >> who leads us? well, we are led, actually through our own work as professionals and our parents and students, and we take all that information and put it together to develop all of the decisions in our school. our staff, we have sight-based managed team, we decide on day-to-day activities, and the budget which is a big unusual part...

I tell this story of every gathering of educators, and i will tell it again when we have a poverty panel later this week. several of our presidents have been teachers, and one of them named lyndon johnson, he was a teacher in one-room schoolhouse in texas, and because he was so horrified with kids coming in with dau stended bellies because of hunger, and he said if he had anything to do about it, we would have a national program, to feed students when they arrive at school and that's why it's in place and now it's an accepted standard of measurement, what percentage of your students are free-l...

Row rows and face one type of media in front of the room. children without the means don't come into the classroom with the electronics-based life, and sometimes the classroom is the only place they are exposed, including your classroom in nevada. tell us about it. >> i lucked out. we had 30 of the original i-book computers when they first came out with fire wire, and they would go wireless. and we had those computers for a while and they got checked out throughout the school but then we got a new set of laptops for that and the batteries in the i-books were dead and i went to the principal, a...

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Head showed up on the laptop the same size as all the other kids' heads, and she could hear and see, and she would raise her hand to ask a question or answer a question, and if we were doing cooperative learning of some kind, we would hurl that around and the kids would talk to her, and the sister would come to school and we would send books home, and anything that we did like that was reason to write on our blogs. within two weeks of the first day we did that, we produced a five-minute video on how we do that and the kids wrote all the parts to it and narrated it, and that has been on the web...