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Bug-in-Ear (BIE) or eCoaching allows a coach to observe special education teachers or teachers-in-training as they work with students, then give real-time feedback through a Bluetooth earpiece.

Smialek, a single mother of one daughter, has been juggling parenting, teaching or going to school and her work as an Air National Guard medic for a while.

In this fascinating conversation, President Gregory Washington speaks with Kevin Clark, director of original animation for preschool programming at Netflix, and retiring professor in the Learning Technologies Division in ����AV’s College of Education and Human Development, about how technology and economics are helping fuel the rich entertainment content highlighting people of color, and how that programming can be a conduit for anti-racism efforts.

“It’s a dream job because I get to create content,” Clark said. “I get to be involved in what young people and their families see, especially at the preschool level. This is some of the first media they are exposed to besides books and stories that their parents and caregivers communicate to them, so we have to get it right.”

����AV is collaborating with Amazon and the Maryland Chamber Foundation to provide local teachers with computer science externships and education in a pilot program to begin this summer.

During three games this season, Mason alumna Callie Brownson has filled in as a position coach for a Cleveland Browns’ coaching staff member dealing with positive COVID tests.