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

Digital Promise

Micro-credential COVID-19 Library. 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.

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A New Era of Educational Leadership: The AI Advantage

A Principal's Reflections

Curate a Knowledge Base : Build a digital library of evidence-based practices that can be shared with teachers and staff. Support Professional Learning : Personalized Learning: Tailor professional learning opportunities to the specific needs of individual educators.

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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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Rethinking Professional Learning for Technology Initiatives

edWeb.net

Why should professional learning be a part of every technology initiative? Because of equity, said the three leading superintendents on the edLeader Panel, “ Creating and Leading a Professional Team of Lifelong Learners.” Professional learning should be grounded in the needs of the students.

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The New Librarian: Using advocacy to promote leadership

eSchool News

In this series, we will be profiling innovative and award-winning library media specialists who will share their favorite tools, lessons, and advice. As innovation coordinator for instructional technology, information & library media at Parkway School District in St. Here are some ways he advocates for his librarians.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

edWeb.net

Moore says that before any rollout of sustainable and effective professional learning, there are four factors that school leaders must consider. Gaddis explained how Wake County focused their professional learning by first identifying three groups: teachers, leadership, and school library media coordinators.

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Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) Partners with Scholastic to Create Latino-inspired Book Collection

eSchool News

Each grade-level library includes 25 titles (2 copies of each), teaching cards, a teacher’s guide, access to Scholastic’s digital resource website, storage bins, and labeling stickers. It is of vital interest to invest in the education of every child, and the professional learning of all educators who serve Latino youth.