Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2019

Let’s look at these Pillars and ways that we can lead in the now: Student engagement, learning, and outcomes : We cannot expect to see increases in achievement if students are not learning. Students who are not engaged are not likely to be learning. Engagement is not a silver bullet, though.

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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. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like? Not all assessments are designed to inform instruction.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Social-emotional learning (#2). Student engagement (#3). More and more schools across the country are thinking beyond academic initiatives, working to broaden the definition of success to ensure all students are healthy, safe, and engaged in their learning. Personalized learning (#4).

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Counting the number of raised student hands to measure student engagement? There’s a lot more to understanding the engagement of a strong classroom, according to professional learning expert Jim Knight. Student engagement can take many forms. Classroom disruptions.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I have worked with ISTE in a number of other service and professional learning roles and currently am serving as one of ISTE’s Community Leaders. ISTE also has invited us to reflect on what it means to be part of an online professional learning network. My students tell me that they appreciate my efforts in this area.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools. A common need across the ACT Network schools is the need for personalized professional learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Verizon Innovative Learning schools standouts. Congratulations to the Verizon Innovative Learning schools’ 2018-19 Schools of Excellence Award winners: District of the Year: Strong Out of the Gate. DuBois Academy—all started strong out of the gate in their first year as Verizon Innovative Learning schools.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 7, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Assessing student knowledge does not need to happen just at the end of the year—a practice that delivers data too late to enhance teaching and learning. Instead, assessing student progress throughout the year can substantially grow academic success.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

However, with thoughtful integration and a shift in perspective, AI can be a powerful ally in the classroom rather than an adversary. AI encourages cheating A common fear is that students will use AI to bypass learning. Using AI tools for editing and feedback while ensuring students critically evaluate suggestions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As educators across the country work tirelessly to provide engaging lessons in new and ever-changing environments, there are still understandable concerns about low student engagement, low teacher morale , and a lack of professional development to meet teacher and students’ needs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

State requirements are starting to address this by requiring online virtual meetings between teacher and student. After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). This should be true in your traditional classroom also.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This new functionality makes it easier for educators to use proven instructional strategies like “turn and talk ,” a common teaching method where peers discuss relevant classroom content with one another. “We know saving them time and helping them engage students is key. Learn more about Classcraft here.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges. It’s exciting to see students do some of the driving. Learn more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

This renewed collaboration ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to drive deeper student engagement in science instruction. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

This tool helps educators and schools adjust curriculum, instruction, and assessment to create high standards and increase student achievement. Total overhaul of our Program of Studies , which included the re-branding, refinement, and creation of innovative courses more relevant to the interests of a student in the 21st Century.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Listen to an audio version of this post: Digital resources are expanding the limits of today’s K-12 classrooms. From interactive learning platforms and collaborative tools to virtual reality and interactive chatbots, the technology options available for education are exhilarating.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In the latest phase of this collaboration, a new edition of the award-winning Mystery Science service built especially for Texas educators is helping CCISD teachers in K-5 classrooms districtwide engage students more deeply in science instruction.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

There is the management piece, which is a day-to-day operation, but you also have the instructional piece to ensure that quality instruction is taking place in each of the classrooms. When you go into the classroom, you want to let the teacher know that this is not a “gotcha” moment. How do you straddle that line with your teachers?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

The end result of the pilot was a sustained blended learning program for the districts and key learnings to support the effective implementation of blended learning as a pathway to personalization. Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning. Evaluate the impact.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

OUR stood out for a lot of reasons: 1) it is authored by experts in their fields, 2) it is designed for diverse classrooms, and 3) it includes a full-service professional learning suite to support teachers. EL Education Language Arts (Grades K-5). Reading with Relevance SEL (Grades 2-12).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Key points: Flexibility can help teachers adapt to unforeseen circumstances Keep in mind that there are always opportunities in the classroom See related article: 5 strategies to ignite student engagement For more news on teaching trends, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page “In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Maybe some of these challenges sound familiar, whether you’re a district, a school, a curriculum leader or an instructional coach, a digital learning specialist, or a librarian. Educators frequently seek administrator guidance for what they expect to see in the classroom or in use by students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2023

Utilizing a Roblox Community Fund grant , the organization will explore innovative ways to use 3D immersive experiences to engage students in the study of science and assess their achievements in the subject. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2023

The renewal of this partnership ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to explore the natural world and more deeply engage in science instruction. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

Unsurprisingly, fully understanding your students’ and teachers’ needs means engaging with them to identify the authentic and fundamental challenges they’re experiencing in the classroom. Use proven tools from the Edtech Pilot Framework to assess a product’s performance. Update developers about student outcomes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The availability of tech tools, including those with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, continues to grow – as do their potential applications in the classroom. Schools can also use tech and AI tools to enhance the success of teacher teams and professional learning communities (PLCs).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the Institute for Teaching and Leading , a professional learning organization that I co-founded, many of our partner districts are focused less on deficits and more on active learning, which we call the asset-based mindset. Santa Fe Public Schools Multi-dimensional project-based learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

In Teachers Know Best, teachers “suggest that the ideal professional learning experience should focus less on presentations and lectures and more on opportunities to apply learning through demonstrations or modeling and practice.” Five Free Distance Learning PD Sessions. Remote Learning: Administrator Strategies.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2016

Here is an excerpt: " Schools have yet to take advantage of the potential of technology in the classroom to tackle the digital divide and give every student the skills they need in today’s connected world, according to the first OECD PISA assessment of digital skills. curriculum, and student work that aligns to higher standards.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We observed classrooms and interviewed all stakeholders—students, teachers, parents, the community, principals, district office staff. We used the eleot (Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool) to take a snapshot of what was happening in classrooms. performing formative assessments.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to Larry Cocco, Senior Professional Learning Consultant at edWeb.net, it really is a form of “machine learning based on training,” which provides responses based on probability. Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, AI: Embracing the Opportunity , sponsored by Eduscape.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Seventy-eight percent of its students are low income and 22 percent are learning English. In other words, Fresno Unified represents some of our country’s most disadvantaged students. But last year, changes in Ryan’s classroom gave Ryan a different way to participate in learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With a focus on students in grades 7-12, I’ve made it a mission to help struggling readers become proficient. 4 steps to a successful literacy program Students are the ultimate beneficiaries of professional learning, technology investments, and other efforts that schools make on the literacy front. Emphasize progress.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the edLeader Panel “ Next Generation Science Standards: Exploring Ten Years of Progress in Science Education ,” four specialists in the field of science education took us through the history and impact of the NGSS, how assessments and educational practices have changed to work with them, and the challenges they pose. Stephen Pruitt, Ph.D.,

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2022

It’s one of the key ways they’re communicating with each other and consuming information outside school, so why wouldn’t schools want to use it in the classroom? This means that the teacher can help the student even when they’re not in the classroom. The post How to Use Video to Engage Learners appeared first on edWeb.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

Paradigm shifts need to be driven by change agents in classrooms, schools, districts, and other educational organizations across the globe. By carefully analyzing current components of professional practice, educators can begin to make the necessary paradigm shifts to replace existing practices with more effective and relevant ones.

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