Grow Your Blog Community

With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog comes with a built-in members area - so that readers can easily sign easily up to become members of your blog.

What can members do?

Members can follow each other, write and reply to comments and receive blog notifications. Each member gets their own personal profile page that they can customize.

Tip:

You can make any member of your blog a writer so they can write posts for your blog. Adding multiple writers is a great way to grow your content and keep it fresh and diversified.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Head to your Member’s Page

2. Search for the member you want to make a writer

3. Click on the member’s profile

4. Click the 3 dot icon ( ⠇) on the Follow button

5. Select Set as Writer

Cybersecurity Pathways for Military-Connected Students

With cybersecurity becoming one of the world’s fastest growing STEM fields, Newport News Public Schools has been awarded a grant by DODEA to create a pathway for military-connected students into cybersecurity. Shaffer Evaluation Group will provide evaluation support across the term of the grant period.

Focusing on pre-K through 8th grade the school district will integrate computational thinking, problem solving, and digital literacy into curriculum, provide additional in-class technology and robots, and extracurricular opportunities for more in-depth cybersecurity curriculum. This project includes a preschool, 4 elementary schools, and 2 middle schools. Professional learning will increase teachers’ confidence integrating STEM curriculum and will reinforce math instruction and curriculum to promote computational thinking and problem solving skills required in cyber literacy. A successful program will show student growth in the Computation and Estimation strands of the Virginia Math Standards of Learning, and growth in the Expressions and Operations strands of the Virginia Algebra I Standards of Learning assessment.

Patricia Moore Shaffer joins Eastern Evaluation Research Society Board

Patricia Moore Shaffer joined the board of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS), the oldest professional society for program evaluators in the United States. Founded in 1978, EERS remains a vibrant contributor to program evaluation practice and theory. As a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), the purpose of EERS is to promote key goals of the profession in our region:

• Growth of the evaluation profession through information sharing and educational activities

• Use of innovative and appropriate evaluation methodologies

• High quality evaluation through fostering research, developing and improving professional competencies, and disseminating and utilizing results.

EERS convenes an annual conference for evaluation professionals, and operates a website to provide information about that conference and other activities of interest to evaluators.