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Looking Ahead to the 2020-2021 School Year

Digital Promise

Equitable access to digital learning means that every student has a device and access to the internet regardless of location, allowing for critically important connections with teachers and peers, instant feedback on mathematical problem sets, the ability to research, ask questions, find answers and explanations, and so much more.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Teacher Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

For example, in the business community, a life coach is typically not someone in your chain of command. For example, if they have a problem with Google Classroom, a video tutorial may do the trick. An emerging professional development “economy” of competency based micro credentials has teachers taking a new type of course.

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Thinking About Redefining Professional Development

The Web20Classroom

The traditional forms of sit-and-get PD are giving way to MOOCs, webinars, Edcamps and flipped learning. The post on The Flip Side Of Professional Development really captures how to make this work and gives several examples. Professional Development is more than just flipping the traditional models.

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Sparking a Culture of Innovation in Northern New Jersey

Digital Promise

In 2017, the cluster held site visits to Pascack Valley Regional High School District and Leonia School District, ignite talks, immersive professional development experiences, and an “edcamp” summer program for leaders. 700 attendees gathered at Ramapo College for Northern Ignite’s event, co-hosted with EdSurge, in 2016.

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Virtual Mentorship for Emerging Leaders

The CoolCatTeacher

This is a great example of virtual mentoring for emerging leaders, just something that people are doing on the side to help. You might not be able to ask as freely about questions that you might have. Vicki: OK, educators, so we’ve given us another way to build our PLN, virtual mentoring. It’s just pretty much word of mouth.

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Connecting Personalized Professional Learning to a Bigger Purpose

The Principal of Change

When I think about how to effectively empower educators to create personalized professional learning for themselves, I often think of Google’s “20% time”, where employees had 20% of their own time to move forward Google as an organization. “We Let’s start with the second point first.

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Taking Control Of Your Professional Development

The Web20Classroom

Many schools and districts are trying to do the right thing by meeting the needs of as many educators as possible when it comes to professional learning. But the reality is most schools and districts are not equipped to personalize the professional development of every educator. Edcamps can help fill that void.

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