Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In September, Digital Promise launched a series of events to support educators with continuing and growing maker learning opportunities that meet the needs of learners through distance learning and beyond. Maker Learning @ Home Cohort. Opportunities to connect with educators in Digital Promise networks.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. For Duquesne Elementary educators and students, maker and STEAM learning sit at the intersection of core content and real-world skill acquisition.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

Our team at Lexington County School District One in South Carolina has focused on mitigating one of these complexities by addressing the human need for connection, support, and ongoing professional learning. Supporting Educators through the Shift to Digital Learning. Designing Virtual PL to Go. If so, how do you plan to do that?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The purpose of the presentation was to share with educators how to create a robust system of support for their entire staff through virtual professional learning. The panelists discussed the current landscape of professional learning that has emerged as the world works its way out of the pandemic.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

After a weekly one-hour session, students feel closer to classmates and often add them to their ongoing PLN (Professional Learning Network). You can find her resources at Structured Learning. State requirements are starting to address this by requiring online virtual meetings between teacher and student. Simplify Tech Skills.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2022

To support educators in accessing quality and relevant professional learning tools at the beginning of the pandemic, we curated a list of micro-credentials that could be earned with a remote or hybrid classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

The following post was written by Bill Brennan and originally appeared on Peter DeWitt''s Finding Common Ground blog found at Education Week. The post was titled Schools.the New Digital Age Learning Organization? Many describe it as empowering, liberating, life changing, and a new paradigm for professional learning.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This page includes everything from blog posts and podcast episodes to video presentations, cheat sheets, and more. Want professional learning credit? You’ll also unlock access to our entire library of cheat sheets, guides, ebooks, templates, and more. There is so much here to help everyone at every level!

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A close friend of mine had shared their dismay that a professional learning day was quickly put together when a day “on their own” to do planning was initially promised. For example, when I was a principal, we implemented digital portfolios for our staff through blogs.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Research shows that classroom libraries in the United States vary greatly and lack criticality and representation of culturally and historically marginalized identities (Crisp et al., Educators’ experiences during these professional development programs. 2016; Harmon et al., 2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Teachers in Lynwood Unified School District, Menlo Park City School District, and Chesapeake Public Schools, for instance, are engaging in comprehensive, personalized professional learning opportunities.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Administrators model teamwork by often conducting their meetings in a glass conference room in Mentor High School’s library, giving students a transparent visual of what it means to serve on a team. Collaborating for greater impact.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

Once your school district makes the commitment to have a digital library, the next step is for people to understand how they can stay engaged. In just one year of having a digital collection, checkouts from the district’s digital library increased by 184 percent. Don’t forget to involve teachers in the digital library.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Once set up, the platform works hand-in-hand with OneNote Class Notebooks to provide a digital workspace where teachers can create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, communicate with school staff, plan lessons, assign and grade homework, comment on work, and differentiate for student needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Dyane Smokorowski on episode 195 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Smoke” talks about what makes excellent professional development. How often do we sit in professional learning that is Unexciting? Dyane Smokorowski, “Mrs. Or whatever!

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Professional Learning Communities (PLC''s): The district will be moving to this research-based model as our main means of professional development. The more I learn about the power of PLC''s the more excited I get! In another mobile device area I recently submitted a grant for a mobile iPad learning lab.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Mandy Froehlich on episode 192 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. Twitter: @froehlichm.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Students need to apply the lessons theyve learned and see that the phonics structures actually correlate to reading a book. Here are just a few questions to think about as you catalog your reading library: Are they helping students build foundational skills that they can apply to different texts?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2025

Personal Learning and Professional Growth with AI A Library 2.0 / Learning Revolution "AI Essentials" Webinar with Reed Hepler OVERVIEW : This 60-minute session explores how AI tools can enhance personal learning and skills development for professional growth. or Learning Revolution All-Access programs.

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Ditch That Textbook

MARCH 18, 2019

File into the cafeteria, library or auditorium. Every teacher, every subject, all together. Early after-school dismissal, or late start. Exhausted after a full school day, or overwhelmed prepping for the day ahead. Collect piles of handouts. The presenter reads aloud from a slide presentation, and you notice […].

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 22, 2024

By offering educators the opportunity to learn about timely topics most important to them, edWeb supports the diverse learning needs of all educators in a useful and accessible format. These Fast Facts highlight edWeb’s role as a professional learning ecosystem, providing a social network for educators for over 16 years.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Are you waiting for the perfect professional learning opportunity? Now you can stop waiting and design your own DIY (Do-It-Yourself) learning that leads to edtech, coding, and makerspace certificates. Sheri McNair is the Library Media Specialist at the James I.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Learn more about this edWeb broadcast, Supporting Newcomers and Multilingual Learners in Your District , sponsored by Britannica Education. Article by Jon Scanlon , based on this edLeader Panel The post Supporting Newcomers and Multilingual Learners: Tips From the Experts appeared first on edWeb.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. I have also included details for each of the twenty ways in this blog post. Online Professional Learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Educators can access the free, on-demand “Lounge Talks” video series to hear about and learn effective strategies for a number of timely topics ranging from professional development to teacher wellness. To learn more about PLtogether, visit [link]. For more news about Edthena, visit www.edthena.com/blog/. Watch here.

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The Thinking Stick

APRIL 17, 2023

April is School Library Month, and we are thrilled to bring you a conversation with award-winning librarian Karina Quilantán! Looking for more information on School Library Month? ”, is an award-winning library media specialist, international presenter, and keynote speaker from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

[ Editor’s Note: This article was first published on the TCEA TechNotes blog.]. In this blog entry, we’ll explore five ways you can promote and share successful edtech success. Libraries represent literacy. What space in your school does the same for edtech-powered learning? Toot your own horn,” my dad often advised me.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

It occurs to me that so many of my best ideas come from the blogs of others. As often as not, those blogs live outside of the school library world. In no particular order, here’s a very personal selection of blogs/bloggers I couldn’t live without. Cult of Pedagogy is far more than a blog.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website tags : embed , favorite Education Innovation: Micro Cultures of Professional Learning Communities tags : PLC , favorite Embedding Scratch in the Classroom | ScratchEd tags : scratch , favorite Free Technology for Teachers: How to Publish a Quiz Using Google Docs tags : googledocs , favorite How to Use New-Media (..)

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2023

In addition to the impact she has with her students, Megan is passionate about supporting her fellow high school teachers and continuing her own professional learning. The AI-powered coaching cycles supplement existing professional development and enhance educator collaboration. For more information, visit www.edthena.com.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I advise teacher professional learning cohorts to start small if they plan to introduce a project-based learning unit. If they are already working on a project-based learning unit with a cohort, they can find ways to stretch. Another team created their own game testing protocol and got feedback from a local game library.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2021

When they hit the “Save” button at the bottom of the screen, the Edthena VideoBot takes care of all the technical details and delivers a blurred video into their private library automatically. Edthena enables teachers and coaches to participate in collaborative professional learning. To learn more, visit Edthena’s blog. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

Episode 135 from the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. If you don’t “get” why technology is important, or know people who don’t, take a listen to understand and learn about transformative practices that work in education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Engineers at nearby technology companies and factories can provide students with hands-on lessons and lead design challenges, and libraries can provide free technology kits and resources. How does that look?

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