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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Citing a lack of trained teachers, TCS had built a PC-based curriculum for teaching reading in 40 hours. The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

The main curriculum at Hadley China is around teaching English. Counsel General, a Vice President from the Disabled Persons Federation and a delegation from Hong Kong. A lot of this was celebrating the achievements of Mr. Xia Rongqiang (Chester), the founder and principal of Hadley China.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Teach good programming practice and provide general programming and tech support (everything beyond basic IT stuff) to the rest of the team, who are experts in statistics and social science with varying degrees of techiness.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Gresh and Robert Weinberg; The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body , by Frances Ashcroft; E = MC2: A Biography of the World''s Most Famous Equation , by David Bodanis; Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival , by Frances Aschcroft; Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas (..)

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AUGUST 19, 2009

Our meeting facilitator, Bob Glavin (longtime advisor to Benetech, teaches at USF and helps many other nonprofits and foundations), told me and the senior managers to not talk and to simply listen. It was hard to keep my mouth buttoned up, but it was essential to hearing from the team instead of from the CEO!

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APRIL 20, 2007

He's also a big fan of of Teach for America. People came up with a mix of names, but Carl didn't go for many (Habitat and Teach for America he did agree to). A really exciting venture is the creation of a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) to address the need of charter schools for viable buildings for their schools. So far so good.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2007

It's an early prototype, but I could see the potential of this approach to teaching social skills for job readiness. It has broader applications, but we were definitely talking about using this for people with disabilities that affect their interpersonal behavior. The second project is from Australia.

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JULY 18, 2006

Palo Alto company's innovative software uses photos to teach the developmentally disabled. Great article today in the San Jose Mercury News. We really appreciate our local partner, C.A.R., in testing Route 66 and giving us lots of great feedback. We enjoy working with Benetech's funders, who share our passion for changing the world.

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JUNE 28, 2006

One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages. I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

As our human rights team grows and expands its impact, and we launch a new project to help LGBT groups, I have found myself thinking about AI’s evolution and what lessons it has to teach us.

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APRIL 19, 2007

Tony really got the crowd going, because it was clear that at the same time he was teaching blind students to take pictures, he was getting a great deal of education himself. Well, she has long hair - that's all I know. Yeah, she's white. She doesn't act white? shakes head) How does she act?

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MARCH 22, 2007

In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. The native English speaker teaches lessons on topics like holidays, customs, or English grammar. It's like a free conference call.

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JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

In addition to teaching the community how wildfires contribute to water pollution, Elaina concluded that hunters on Guam should also be shown how to use bait to attract deer instead of relying on fires to flush them out.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Hadley's brand of distance education for the blind (and people who care about blind people) has been adapted to focus on teaching of English in China. It's unusual for a U.S. nonprofit to have a China branch, but truly amazing that it's been there for twenty years.

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JANUARY 23, 2007

Toronto business school, talked about the need to drive new skills into the business school community, especially improving the teaching of entrepreneurship and trying to teach empathy. Roger Martin, dean of the U. Bill Drayton rounded out the panel.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

For five days, we focused on teaching the NHRC staff to use the Martus software. On my second trip to Abuja last October, we conducted a two week intensive training for the NHRC’s own instructors. I flew into Abuja from Kinshasa, and my colleague Rahwa Tareke joined me from San Francisco.

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DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. She's very sharp! The AIF team in New Delhi took me to visit a school that was part of the Digital Equalizer program.

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination 17. Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity 12. Elements of Pantheism 13. Brethren: Raised by Wolves, Volume One 14. Each One Believing 15. The Structure Of Evolutionary Theory 16. Grounds to Believe: Elect Trilogy #3 18. Disney High School Musical: Stories from East High #13 19.

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JANUARY 2, 2007

A key feature of Route 66 is the Teacher Tutor, which helps the inexpert but motivated teacher (parent, volunteer, teacher's aide, rehab professional) teach reading. Our initial focus is on serving people with cognitive disabilities who want to learn to read.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

My organization, Benetech, alone has products and services touching on all of these areas: • We write the leading software package used for managing conservation projects: Miradi, a standalone software program usable on PCs and Macs, and our Read2Go software is the leading Special Education Literacy software for the iOS platform (for iPhones and iPads) (..)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills. The rod cells in the intact peripheral visual field can then take over for the cone cells in the damaged central visual field.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

at Benetech.org In my job as outreach coordinator for Martus , Benetech’s free and open source information management technology, I teach human rights workers in many countries how to secure their data. A Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi, Vijaya.T

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