A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

As I write this post, many have begun the year with remote learning, while others have opted for a hybrid model where a certain amount of kids are still learning at home. When we address social-emotional learning (SEL) we advance emotional Intelligence. It is essential first to understand where issues can arise.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

One of the best parts about job-embedded, on-going work with school districts is facilitating a variety of professional learning opportunities. Recently the district asked me to be a part of their professional development day, which consisted of seven different learning strands specific to the needs and interests of their teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success. According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. When we formed the Michigan Virtual Learning Continuity Workgroup in April 2020, we knew these struggles all too well.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

First and foremost, make the time to learn, grown, and get better as opposed to finding the time. There is nothing more important to an educator, outside of working with kids, than professional learning. Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

The reaction to Learning Transformed has been truly humbling. All of these experiences empowered us to think about and then create a deep learning experience that could be easily accessible to all educators across the globe. The key to change is not telling, but showing how ideas can transform teaching, learning, and leadership.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2020

In the face of a myriad of obstacles, educators have stepped up to implement remote learning to get through the remainder of the academic year. Will the lessons learned during the pandemic be applied to create a better learning culture for kids? How will reduced budgets ensure safety, hygiene, and needed professional learning?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 2, 2022

Hechinger Report just published an article on how having teachers study student data doesn’t actually result in better student learning outcomes. We implement benchmarking assessments and professional learning communities (PLCs). Think about that for a minute. That finding is pretty counterintuitive, right? And for what?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2018

Draper, the director of innovative learning at Alpine School District in Utah, offered six best practices in technology and instructional coaching Tuesday at CoSN’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. You need to have strong professional learning communities," Draper told the packed audience. "If Related Articles.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. When Professor Jal Mehta and then-doctoral candidate Sarah Fine embarked on their exploration of deeper learning in American high schools, they were initially disappointed. What can we learn from what happens after school?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

Principal Julie Graham wanted to offer professional development that wasn’t one-size-fits-all. To create different opportunities for professional learning, Graham said she offered her teachers activities that included a social element, like a book club. At Beechwood School in Fullerton, Calif., Content Subtype. CDW Activity ID.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

#ICE18: Illinois Conference Will Prepare Educators for Modern Learning Environments. We are excited to have CDW•G create a modern learning environment for educators to experience what classrooms today can not only look like, but how they can better facilitate learning. Learning strands include: Leadership. CDW Segment.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2024

Do you feel like our current approach to teaching and learning is working for either teachers or students? This belief is what drove me to develop my TEDx Talk titled “ Education Reimagined: Student-Led Learning.” If you answered, “no,” we are on the same page. Click the image to watch!

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

This is part of a three-article series covering key principles to consider when building out computer science programs in your academic setting. Read the other articles here and here. Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 28, 2019

If use is lower than expected, it could be a sign that a particular resource is unhelpful or unintuitive, that teachers don’t see value in it or that they need more professional learning to unlock its potential. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series. by Wendy Jones.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. Education policy issues must be addressed first.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 31, 2018

Professional Development Is the Foundation You Knead. Professional learning is the crust of your technology program. Some school districts spend millions of dollars on technology , then have no money left over for much-needed professional learning. We want students to be interactive, creative explorers.

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Edthena

MARCH 10, 2022

What innovation is “shaking up teacher professional learning?” Language Magazine provides news and resources for language learners, educators, and professionals and recently wrote about the AI Coach platform. Read the full article at Language Magazine or see the excerpt below: AI Coach to Support Teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

In order to make sure educators were getting the professional learning experiences they needed , Douglas and her team went through several steps to create more flexible (and fun) PD. In addition to technology coaches, Tulare also has coaches in areas such as literacy and 21st-century learning, Douglas said. Content Subtype.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

Initially, I resisted but then decided that this could be an excellent opportunity to connect with more kids and hopefully in the process pass along some of the life lessons that I learned from my former coaches. The actual game was more or less an assessment of what my players had learned during practice.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I would attend a workshop or read an article on a new teaching technique, and I’d be excited about new ideas, but then struggle to find opportunities and resources to implement them. Micro-credentials are truly authentic professional learning tools. Micro-credentials are truly authentic professional learning tools.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ??grounded grounded in learning sciences research. Matt Spears, Associate Director of Learning Communities, Verizon Innovative Learning Schools.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JULY 26, 2023

By Brent Hartsell, Director of Solutions and Professional Learning at Learning Ally Teachers are one of the most important assets to our society, yet an alarming number are leaving the profession.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 25, 2019

Leveraging Professional Learning Communities to Discover Impactful Tech. These questions include: How did I learn about this technology? Do I know anyone in my immediate professional community that has used it with students? How will I know it’s being used in a way that promotes learning and/or student productivity?

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 15, 2025

Background noise varies at different times of day making it hard for students to focus, attention spans waver, and not all students learn the same ways. This requires clear learning goals and ideas on how technology can support those goals. Since every school is different, what they need to meet their learning goals can vary.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2019

Below is a summary from an article by Jenni Donohoo, John Hattie, and Rachel Eells. According to his Visible Learning research, based on a synthesis of more than 1,500 meta-analyses, collective teacher efficacy is three times more powerful and predictive of student achievement than socioeconomic status. Begin with the end in mind (i.e.,

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Hapara

JANUARY 13, 2025

This constant scramble, complicated by distractions within the classroom or online learning environment can lead to stress, missed deadlines, and ultimately, hinder academic achievement. How can educators empower students to take control of their learning journey while boosting classroom efficiency?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: Classes. The Tech-infused Teacher. Certificate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

The 21 st Century lesson blends technology with teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Professional Learning Network. Topics include: cyberbullying.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Summer school gives those teachers a chance to develop skills in that area and learn scaffolding techniques to help students in need of more support. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, Leveraging Summer School to Improve Tier 1 Instruction: Job-Embedded Teacher Growth , sponsored by The National Summer School Initiative (NSSI).

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Digital Promise

JULY 22, 2022

The resources I learned about, and the teachers I have met, have made me more confident with powerful digital learning. Overwhelmed by tens of thousands of educators looking to connect, learn, and find inspiration to continue their calling, the positive energy was palpable. They are given autonomy in their learning.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. In order to really help students learn, it’s crucial that educators know what’s going on in their minds. So, what is instructional usefulness?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 5, 2017

The 21 st Century classroom blends technology with traditional teaching to build a collaborative, differentiated, and shared learning environment. This three-week course (July 10-July 30) digs into the digital ideas and tools used by innovative teachers to extend and enrich student learning. 40+ Hall of Fame tech ed articles.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2019

This means learning online has become one of the most popular approaches to education. Done right, you don’t have to give up the collaboration, camaraderie, and new friends to get the passion of learning, the huzzah of amazing knowledge, and the high of improving yourself. Once learned, they are easy.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. They are learning to be thinkers, innovators and problem-solvers rather than mere consumers of information.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2025

As Ferikolu and Akgn note in a recent article , there is a significant need for early and ongoing professional development for educators to be fully prepared to address the new instructional realities brought forth by an AI-rich environment. Human agency needs to be a core of any effective use of AI tools.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 3, 2025

Instead of ignoring the technology, schools owe it to the students to understand how it works and how it can enhance learning. In addition to any professional development, offer staff members suggestions on how they could use AI at home. In fact, the AI technology and jobs that students will have dont even exist yet.

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