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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

As the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of life, how school districts leveraged technology, engaged students in powerful learning, and supported learners and their families fundamentally shifted. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents.

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Micro-credentials and COVID-19: Supporting Professional Learning When Schools are Closed

Digital Promise

In the last month, our teaching and learning environment has been upended. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts and educators have been tasked with shifting teaching and learning online, and many are seeking resources to support learning in this new environment. Micro-credential COVID-19 Library.

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. Thomas School Dedicates Space to Bolster STEM Learning. We do training, and we follow up with more training,” she says. Pull Quote.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

Edsurge

As teacher shortages have become more severe in early learning settings since the pandemic, previous workarounds to staffing holes have become less reliable. Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia.

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More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

Between Seattle, Naples, and the Bahamas, there are advocacy villages everywhere, filled with educators like Hannah Irion-Frake, a third-grade teacher in Pennsylvania who spends her career advocating for and creating readers. “I I provide training for teachers in my district in science-based literacy practices,” Irion-Frake said.

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New Approaches to Instructional Technology Coaching

Digital Promise

When suddenly propelled into distance learning last spring, educators rose to the challenge to meet the needs of students and families. Even in schools outside of the Verizon Innovative Learning network, coaches reported that they were valued more by teachers and administrators than prior to the pandemic.

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

Edsurge

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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