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Trainer’s Notebook: The Feng Shui of Good Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation. Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not.

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StartupLab launches to coach America’s next generation of entrepreneurs

The Next Web

These include Junior Achievement, Georgetown University, BizWorld, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Startup Weekend, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and many more. The Young Entrepreneur Council may be familiar to you if you’re a regular TNW reader. Image credit: Pond 5.

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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team’s hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. After two and a half years of mentoring on nights and weekends, Novati decided to turn her passion into a career. She and her husband, Michael, founded Formation with a couple of goals in mind.

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Why attracting younger members is crucial for association success

Nimble AMS

Consider partnering with specific universities, so you know exactly what training and certifications are relevant to students and recent graduates. TECH TIP: Teach in-demand skills and provide industry-specific certifications through Salesforce’s Trailhead , accessible with Nimble AMS.

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Announcing new Tableau Data Literacy curriculum for higher education

Tableau

In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. Those experiences not only informed my teaching, but it became a personal passion to bring foundational data skills to all.

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Strive gets backing from Y Combinator to show kids that coding is fun

TechCrunch

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Of course they need to be able to teach coding, but what’s far more important is their ability to empathize and relate with the student.” Strive’s employees, including its founders, still need to teach at least one student.

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As edtech evolves, LatAm reskilling platforms raise millions to bring outcomes into the mix

TechCrunch

The founder estimates that only 8% of teachers are accepted to teach on Coderhouse’s platform, resulting in nearly 2,000 active teachers with the company today. Right now, there are more than 400 instructors/mentors that teach over 700 courses across 100,000 techniques and competencies needed for jobs.

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